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- B2B: 'Business to Business' marketing activity of your firm
- B2C: 'Business to Consumer' marketing activity of your firm
- Blacklist: Your email is on a list of 'blocked emails' - so your email won't get through.  You need to be on a 'whitelist' (see 'whitelist').
- Blog: 'Web Log' - now generally a discussion forum on the internet
- Bottleneck: A 'pinchpoint' in your database / data administration…. where no matter what else you do – your project / database is only going to go as fast as this bit
- Branding: The full image of your service / company. For instance, the BMW car brand is 'the ultimate driving machine'
- Campaign: The full project to send an email / mailing (from planning, sending, to follow-up)
- Cookie: the thing that a website puts on your PC to remember who you are. 'Bad big Brother' type thing, or a really useful that means you don't have to keep re-typing passwords
- Cold Call: When you are called out of the blue by a salesperson
- Client Relationship Management: managing the relationships, and knowing what is happening to your client / contact / customer
- CRM: Client Relationship Management (or Customer Relationship Management)
- Cross-Selling: Selling other services / products to existing customers / clients
- De-duplication: Combining two or more records into one (also known as Merge Purge)
- Differentiation: What makes your service / product stand out from the crowded marketplace with all your competitors products
- Direct Marketing: the flash name for 'mailing and emailing' activity
- Domain: the suffix for your email address
- DPA: The Data Protection act, or often just 'DP'
- eBusiness: Doing business / website type things on the internet
- eCommerce: Trading on the internet
- eMail Preference Service (ePS): A list of people who have registered their desire not to be sent emails – check it before you send your eMarketing
- eMarketing: sending marketing emails
- EPS: see eMail Preference Service
- Fax Preference Service (FPS): A list of people who have registered their desire not to be sent faxes – check it before you send faxes to these eMarketing
- FPS: see Fax Preference Service
- Junk mail: Anything your contacts don't find useful – that arrived through the post. SPAM is the online version of junk mail
- Mail sort: If you use very large amounts of postal marketing, the royal mail will give you a discount if you batch your envelope packs by regions
- Mailing Fulfilment: the stuffing of the letters and flyers into envelopes and sending
- Mailing Preference Service (MPS): A list of people who have registered their desire not to be sent mailings – check it before you send material
- Merge Purge: Combining two or more records into one (also known as de-duplication)
- MPS: see Mailing Preference Service
- Outbound email: the emails you send FROM your company
- PAF: see Postal Address File
- Postal Address File: (PAF) A list of correct addresses (from the Royal Mail) which you can check you address details against
- Profiling: the information you hold about a contact – for instance - their job title and business interests allows you to build quick and accurate mailing lists
- SPAM: Anything your contacts don't find useful – that arrived by email (also see JUNK MAIL)
- Telephone Preference Service (TPS): A list of people who have registered their desire not to be contacted by phone – check it before you call them
- Tele-Marketing: Doing you marketing activity by phone. Can also be referred to as 'tele-research / tele-sales'
- TPS: see Telephone Preference Service
- Up-Selling: selling higher value (cost) services / products to existing customers / clients
- USP: Unique selling point – does your service / product have something unique about it that makes it better than your competition
- Warm Call: telesales when you are OK to call your targets - they may have asked you to call them, or you have pre-warned that you will call them in earlier communications
- Whitelist: This is where your sending email address is on the list of approved email addresses that your clients and prospects accept - the reverse of 'blacklisting

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Brianna_Iowa on January 16, 2012 at 01:57 PM said:

Oodles of bloggers great and small would give a #1 Technorati rank (or insert personal thing of inestimable value here) to be able to host Kathy Sierra as a guest blogger. (Myself included.)

Evelyn_Wisconsin on January 16, 2012 at 01:20 PM said:

Maybe the private blog is the way to go, though I suspect you'd need some time to get revved up for that. The pod/video angle sounds great, but that raises a lot of other questions. And it loses the immediacy that you enjoyed so long, which is one of the most unfortunate losses in all this.

Andrea_Virginia on January 16, 2012 at 12:55 PM said:

I was thinking the same thing about Alexa as there was quite a lot of movement. They might have readjusted their adjustment for “technology skew” - or what ever it was….

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Ava_New_Hampshire on January 15, 2012 at 03:10 PM said:

Has he joined Obama in Wonderland where up is down and left is right? What’s “fiscally conservative” about voting for every spending measure in sight?

Alexa_Alaska on January 15, 2012 at 12:39 PM said:

In doing this blog and thinking about this stuff, have you ever had any ideas for what kinds of tools (software, that is) that people could use to do things like share creative ideas in groups, create customer community, etc. etc.?

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Nevaeh_Massachusetts on January 14, 2012 at 09:54 PM said:

Just look at the difference just 20-30 rock solid Tea Party conservatives have made in the House already. They’ve turned “1/3 of the government” on its head and started a war between the establishment party and the Tea Party.

Gabriella_Mississippi on January 14, 2012 at 04:45 PM said:

The reality is that the establishment in the Senate HATE CCB, modest as it really is and see the new Boehner plan as an out, since they figure they will get Reid to make a compromise since it is only 22 Billion in cuts.

Destiny_Oregon on January 13, 2012 at 03:14 PM said:

In doing this blog and thinking about this stuff, have you ever had any ideas for what kinds of tools (software, that is) that people could use to do things like share creative ideas in groups, create customer community, etc. etc.?

Taylor_Wisconsin on January 13, 2012 at 05:58 AM said:

Take me for example. I could support Bachman, Cain, Palin, or Santorum. in no particular order. Others would choose fewer plus Paul.

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Zoey_Wisconsin on January 12, 2012 at 08:49 PM said:

Good for Hannity, hammering Mc Cain. Mc Cain off as so slimey. He completely bought into the Obama narrative and talks about the great calamity to come if there is no agreement, and continues to blast the Tea Party.

Lily_Connecticut on January 11, 2012 at 09:12 PM said:

Only reason I voted for him was SARAH. I wasn’t even going to vote until he picked her. I had voted in every election since the late 1960?s.

Arianna_Colorado on January 11, 2012 at 03:56 PM said:

I like the idea of a private blog if getting the RSS and reading posts was as simple as public. If there are too many hoops just to get notice of and read a single post it will get frustrating.

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