A strategic approach to electronic direct mail campaigns leverages information analysis to inform decision-making. Specifically, customer attributes, behaviors, and prior interactions are analyzed to tailor content, timing, and audience segmentation. For example, a retailer might use purchase history to send targeted promotions for related items to specific customer groups.
This focused approach offers significant advantages. It can improve engagement rates, personalize messaging for enhanced relevance, and optimize resource allocation by prioritizing high-potential segments. Historically, this form of targeted marketing evolved from mass broadcast methods, driven by advancements in data analytics and marketing automation technologies that enabled increasingly granular customer understanding and segmentation.