News with
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Welcome to our news page. We will be updating this page on a regular basis with industry news, blogs and information on new lists. So please check back from time to time to see what is hot off the Databroker press! Hope to see you back soon.
more bite
than bark...
7th February 2012 - Secret Diary of List Broker
February
2012
Offshore Call Centres: Dont tell me fibs...
As a data broker, I am a cog in the direct marketing machine and very much an advocate of ‘good’ outbound marketing.
Few can argue that there isn’t a place for successful outbound direct marketing within the marketing mix.
What I can certainly argue against and make no apologies for is the current use of offshore call centres and how UK brands just don’t seem to understand what their Read More>>>
26th January 2012 - Telemarketing is viewed as critical for B2B Success
January
2012
A massive 84% of B2B brands view telemarketing as “important” and above, with a huge 60% of those stating that telemarketing was with “Critical” or “Very Important” to their organisations. Here at Databroker we tend to agree!
According to a new survey conducted by B2B Marketing Magazine in association with The Telemarketing Company, telemarketing remains an essential tool in generating sales and nurturing those hard earned leads Read More>>>
25th January 2012 - **Stop Press** Brand New, New Business Start-up File
January
2012
Databroker are pleased to announce that we have a brand new, unique source of New Business Data. Never before been available this top quality new business start-up data is new to the market and is generated, checked and qualified on a daily basis.
New businesses spring Read More>>>
14th December 2011 - Email Marketing: Divide & Conquer
December
2011
The 2011 DMA Email Tracking study in conjunction with fast.MAP and Alchemy Worx has found that segmentation and targeted content = happy consumers.
The annual Email Tracking Study monitors 1800 UK consumers in their experiences, perception and responses to email marketing.
The number of consumers who Read More>>>
1st December 2011 - Solicitor Mailing Lists from Databroker
December
2011
Databroker is pleased to announce they have access to a DMA approved specialist solicitor mailing list supplier.
Solicitor mailing lists and solicitor mailing data from Databroker can help you target individuals in the legal profession and get your products & services in front of over 42,000 solicitor contacts.
This Read More>>>
23rd November 2011 - Future Bright for Direct Mail
November
2011
Annual research conducted by fast.Map on behalf of TNT Post UK has showed a positive outlook for the future of the Direct Mail industry. The results come from a study of marketers and consumers combined with a survey conducted by TNT Post UK to its customers.
Over three-quarters of respondents expect direct mail volumes to grow or maintain stable in the next 12 months. Whilst most encouragingly well over two-thirds believe that DM is the Read More>>>
11th November 2011 - PR Mailing Lists from Databroker
November
2011
PR mailing lists and PR contacts can be quite difficult to get hold of as many business data providers focus on gathering the senior decision maker or MD contacts only, neglecting other business functions such as PR. Databroker is pleased to announce they have access to a DMA approved specialist PR data and PR mailing list supplier.
This Read More>>>
10th November 2011 - Sales & Marketing need to work together
November
2011
Calling all Sales and Marketing departments: If you work together you WILL be more successful!
Databroker has put together our four top tips on how to improve interdepartmental relationships. Read our Read More>>>
9th November 2011 - Email Marketing has most successful 6 months, EVER...!
November
2011
The results are out, according to the DMA’s 2010 Email Benchmarking report, in the second half of 2010 the email marketing industry had its most successful half-year ever recorded.
The research reveals higher click through rates, an increase in email generated website traffic and more email campaigns than ever being conducted.
The highlights:
• 60% growth in email volume during 2010
• Record highs set in December 2010 with Read More>>>
20th October 2011 - FTSE Contacts from Databroker
October
2011
FTSE Contacts & FTSE Mailing Lists from Databroker can put you in touch with the top UK companies today. This specialist FTSE data is the most accurate and up to date business data available for the UKs biggest companies.
Every FTSE contact record has an up to date contact job title, ranging from the CEO to Training Managers and FTSE contact data in this niche market is no older than 3 months old.
All FTSE lists have been given the Read More>>>
4th October 2011 - B2B Data; free B2B Data consultancy
October
2011
Databroker has over 10 years experience in B2B data and direct marketing. Throughout that time, we have picked up a thing or two and our B2B data expertise can help you save time and money.
Whether you require email lists, mailing lists or telemarketing data, Databroker can advise and recommend the best B2B data list for your needs.
B2B Data Experts
As an impartial list broker, we make it our business to research B2B data sources, Read More>>>
30th September 2011 - Secret Diary of a List Broker
September
2011
Guess who has turned up again?
Get me Guinness on the phone. Surely it's official now, this is the longest Closing Down Sale EVER! ( ahem )
Regular readers may remember from a previous Secret Diary on August the 3rd (read it here) that a certain business data company is giving away their business data due to a closure of the business.
The same supplier that has Read More>>>
21st September 2011 - Welcome BMT
September
2011
We would like to introduce you to the latest Telemarketing Databroker Approved Partners; bmt Sales & Marketing.
bmt Sales & Marketing are a Northamptonshire based, award winning telemarketing specialist. For the last 7 years bmt have been delivering a range of UK telemarketing solutions such as appointment setting, lead generation, database cleansing, customer satisfaction surveys, message taking and market research. Their mission statement Read More>>>
14th September 2011 - Sales & Marketing work better together
September
2011
The Sales Team and The Marketing Department: often at loggerheads, always playing the blame game and usually situated at different ends of the office. Why? The benefits of these two vital cogs working together are numerous and far reaching. Read on for Databroker’s top 4 tips on how to improve those inter-departmental relationships:
Databroker’s top 4 Tips to improve Sales & Marketing Relations
Marketing: Get Sales Buy in
BEFORE Read More>>>
6th September 2011 - Welcome BrotherMailer & NRG
September
2011
We would like to introduce you to the latest Email Broadcasting and Direct Mail Databroker Approved Partners; BrotherMailer and NRG Direct Mail.
BrotherMailer provide simple and effective email broadcasting solutions, with all the advantages of professional email marketing contained within a user-friendly system. Whether you are a complete beginner or seasoned professional the BrotherMailer email editor has all the functionality you need to Read More>>>
24th August 2011 - Benefits of using Data Brokers
August
2011
Before we go onto why you should use the services of a data broker, I suppose the first question to answer would be “what are Data Brokers? “
In essence, data brokers (also known as list brokers) source data lists for direct marketing campaigns on your behalf. So whether you are conducting a telemarketing campaign, a direct mail shot or maybe an email broadcast, your data broker will be able to recommend the most suitable data for your Read More>>>
17th August 2011 - Email Data from Databroker
August
2011
Databroker will help you improve your email marketing results with free advice and quality email data lists for your campaigns. Databroker are experts in direct marketing. As an independent list broker and we offer guidance and data recommendations for your individual requirements, ensuring your campaigns succeed with the most responsive email data.
Email Data Stats
• Business Email Data file of up to 1.1m records available
• Read More>>>
10th August 2011 - Email Appending from Databroker
August
2011
First things first, let’s cut the jargon, Email Appending simply involves taking your existing contact databases and adding or updating the record with the correct email address for that contact. Simple.
It is a fact of life that despite your best efforts, your databases will not be 100% correct. Whether it be due Read More>>>
21st July 2011 - Contact Manufacturers with Databroker
July
2011
Databroker has just come across a fantastic UK Manufacturing database which has the details of over 180,000 manufacturing contacts. This data comes from a niche supplier who specialises in researching and gathering manufacturing contacts. Data is carefully compiled and covers everything from what products they manufacture and how they manufacturing them, to specialised job functions within each company and the number of Read More>>>
20th July 2011 - Construction Database & List of Architects
July
2011
If you supply products or services to the lucrative building trades sector, Databroker can assist with targeting and sourcing specific construction databases such as; local builder contacts, building contractors database, conservatory installer lists, sealed unit manufacturer data and a list of architects contacts.
With volumes in excess of 60,000 records in the building and window industry alone, Databroker Read More>>>
18th July 2011 - Databroker Needs You!
July
2011
In our ongoing mission to improve the reputation and customer confidence in data and direct marketing Databroker will only work with and recommend suppliers who use and source data responsibly. We think that this is something that we should all be proud of, and so we are launching the Databroker Approved Partner Read More>>>
4th July 2011 - Contact the Top UK Companies
July
2011
Databroker can put you in touch with the top UK companies today with FTSE contacts and FTSE mailing lists.
This specialist FTSE data is the most accurate and up to date business data available for the UKs biggest Read More>>>
29th June 2011 - The damaging consequences of TPS violation
June
2011
As a DMA registered list broker, TPS Suppressions and good data ethics are the norm to Databroker. They are so much part of our daily routine that we spare it little thought.
So it always comes as a bit of a shock to learn about blatant TPS abuse.
TPS abuse is disappointing, TPS indifference is infuriating and unfortunately it is all too prevalent.
Read More>>>
15th June 2011 - Specialist HR Data from Databroker
June
2011
HR contacts can be quite difficult to get hold of, many business data providers focus on gathering the senior decision maker or MD contacts only, neglecting other business functions such as HR. Databroker is pleased to announce they have access to a specialist HR data supplier with the largest number of verified HR email addresses Read More>>>
13th June 2011 - Secret Diary: The Sales Merry-go-Round
June
2011
13th June 2011
A funny, yet annoyingly predictable thing happened to me today. One of my account managers has moved jobs to a new data supplier. He rang me up to let me know the good news, brimming with exuberance and excitement for his new role.
Naturally he wanted to become a supplier to Databroker (well, who wouldn’t) and he Read More>>>
6th June 2011 - Databroker is Two!
June
2011
We made it... the grand old age of two. This might not sound like a big deal. But surviving and even thriving, through the biggest recession in living memory is a massive achievement of which we are hugely proud.
Two years ago Databroker was born, since then we have built up a loyal client base, launched not one, but two websites & are Read More>>>
2nd June 2011 - 5 jolly good reasons why to use a list broker
June
2011
Buying business data or consumer data can be a daunting task, especially for those who are new to the direct marketing game. Even the old hands will benefit from using a list broker rather than doing the legwork themselves. Here are Databroker’s 5 damn good reasons why you should use the services of a list broker instead of doing Read More>>>
31st May 2011 - New business startup data - new business leads
May
2011
The early bird catches the worm... New businesses spring up on a daily basis and are in need of your products and services from day one. Get in touch with these brand new companies within days of them starting up with new business startup data from Read More>>>
23rd May 2011 - Unique database of all UK franchise businesses
May
2011
Looking to contact UK Franchise businesses? Databroker has access to this unique business data set of over 5,000 franchises in the UK.
Unavailable from any other list broker this fantastic list of franchises comes complete with the following fields:
Company Name
Company Address
Telephone Number
Senior Decision Maker Contact
and Read More>>>
16th May 2011 - Cutting Through the Business Data Jargon
May
2011
Read our "Cutting through the business data jargon" article on the MarketingDonut blog! Marketing Donut is a resource hub which offers free advice, tools, industry news and information for small and medium sized businesses. Content is updated on a regular basis and is checked and verified by leading business support professionals and independent experts.
John is a resident expert for direct marketing advice and recommendations on Marketing Read More>>>
11th May 2011 - 6 data sales tactics to avoid at all costs!
May
2011
Mary Portas does shops – we do data lists. We think it’s about time that someone starts to put customer service and ROI first. To that end I am donning a ginger wig and am blogging about how you can get the service you deserve when acquiring data lists. Read below some of the common sales tricks that some of the less scrupulous data companies out there employ when required.
1 ) End of Month sale. Oh Really?
The lowest Read More>>>
26th April 2011 - Legends of Direct Marketing Part 1: The Rock
April
2011
"Finally... The Rock has come back to Databroker’s blog"
Over the next few weeks a few well known legends from screen and stage will be visiting the Databroker Blog to impart their unbound wisdom and knowledge to all of our lovely readers. We hope you enjoy our twist on the usual articles, we certainly had fun creating Read More>>>
15th April 2011 - Email Marketing Guest Blog
April
2011
Databroker have partnered with some of the most experienced and well thought of individuals in the industry to provide you with a series of guest blogs on a wide range of marketing topics.
Today we are very lucky to have the insights from Donna McNicholas, B2B sales manager at CommuniGator and digital marketing guru! We hope you enjoy Donna's post, we are certainly Read More>>>
1st April 2011 - Email Marketing Tips on MarketingDonut
April
2011
Read our Email Marketing tips live on the MarketingDonut blog! Marketing Donut is a resource hub which offers free advice, tools, industry news and information for small and medium sized businesses. Content is updated on a regular basis and is checked and verified by leading business support professionals and independent experts.
John is a resident expert for direct marketing advice and recommendations on Marketing Donut. John recently posted Read More>>>
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