EMAIL, RETENTION OR ACQUISITION?
Email, Facebook, and Twitter each provide marketers with the ability to compile a database full of customers and prospects. This ability to gather consumers into a visible list certainly looks like the familiar paradigm of database marketing. And given the fact these consumers are now part of “our databases,” it seems logical that these would meet the criterion for retention marketing. After all, they are in our databases, so the job of acquisition is done, right? Based on the Subscribers,...