IRVINE, Calif.-( )-, President and Founder of Managed Direct Response, has been nominated for the Orange County Business Journal Excellence in Entrepreneurship Awards. This is the 18 th year of the awards and this is the 5 th consecutive year that Pat Mercuri has been nominated.Pat Mercuri is a serial entrepreneur and has created successful companies in many sectors including staffing, real estate and marketing. He has also been a successful Realtor for one of Orange County’s leading real estate companies. He is a man who never sleeps.program is designed to recognize individuals who exemplify the American entrepreneurial spirit – individuals who, by their creativity and determination, have established and nurtured successful business ventures.“It is very flattering and humbling to be nominated for the Orange County Business Journal’s Entrepreneur Awards for the 5 th time. I am glad to be included among Orange County’s great community of entrepreneurs, who make this County such a hot bed of entrepreneurship,” said.“I am only successful when my clients are successful, so I am pleased that we have been able to implement marketing programs with some of the highest returns and ROI in the industry,” said Mercuri.For the last 20 years Pat Mercuri has grown into one of Orange County’s premier direct marketing firms.

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Managed Direct Response has extensive expertise generating leads in three verticals: Automotive, Mortgage and Solar. The experience in marketing covers over two decades of continuously testing, adapting and discovering of new marketing techniques that drives their clients business with proven results. Managed Direct Response mails over 12 million records a month.The company recently acquired a larger printing facility in the Inland Empire due to its continuing growth. This allows the company to provide a fully integrated solution for its clients along with cost savings and shortened response times.About Managed Direct Responseis a full-service marketing company located in Irvine, California. The company focuses on helping clients improve the ROI on their marketing investments.For more information visit or visit their Facebook page at.

Here’s why storytelling, patient data-driven marketing, and—imagine this—offline marketing need to be part of your marketing strategy in 2019 and beyond.I once proclaimed myself immune to marketing and branding. As a 20-year-old journalism major endlessly in search of some greater, hidden truth, one of life’s many veils had finally fallen: I was to no longer be influenced by the fool’s gold alchemy of marketing or advertising. From there on, I would evaluate each purchase I made, pair of shoes I wore, and product I used through an objective, practicality-, quality-, and value-focused lens.I had recently read that designer brand stores in outlet malls often carry lower-quality versions of. Through a documentary, I had learned that virtually all designer eyeglasses and sunglasses are —Luxottica—with very little in terms of quality justifying massive price point differences between brands.

Whyever, I thought, would I engage in brand loyalty if there is no brand integrity?Fast-forward four years.I recently bought a new (used) car. Of the five cars I test-drove, it came down to two: a 2015 Volkswagen Passat and a 2016 Kia Optima.

The Optima was a bit cheaper, had fewer miles despite being a year newer, and got better gas mileage. From a practicality standpoint, the Optima was clearly the better choice. However, something deep down—ingrained in me I know not when or how—whispered a warning that Kias are cars for carting around your kids to soccer practice.Today, I’m the owner of a sporty, V6 2015 Volkswagen Passat—a young man’s car.While still today, I’m not usually one for designer brands, I do like to look nice.

Rarely will you find me in a situation in which I’m attempting to look presentable without a Fossil watch on my wrist. I own four (4) of them, each costing between $80-120. Something about that price point makes me feel as though Fossil is respectable and of quality, but far from grandiose. Fossil’s branding and general aesthetic, to me, strikes a perfect balance between classic and modern.If I were to buy a fifth watch, I wouldn’t consider anything but Fossil. Is that what they call brand loyalty? Huh.Maybe I’m not so marketing- and brand-immune after all.Marketing, when done right, is extremely effective—even to those who attempt to perceive it as smoke and mirrors. And it’s very likely that, if you’re in the market for marketing advice, you should read on for expert insight from a couple of successful founders and one all-star CMO.– Heidi Zak: As we embrace data-driven marketing, don’t write off offline marketing.

“Offline marketing often seems like a risky proposition for e-commerce companies.Today, everything is tracked, measured, analyzed, and organized. Clicks are counted, and page views are neatly displayed on spreadsheets.To put money behind a marketing channel where results are difficult to track seems strange, or even foolish.Yet I’d argue that offline marketing channels like radio, television, and even direct mail have plenty of potential in the digital age.

While you can’t get immediate stats on the exact number of clicks and conversions as you would with a Facebook ad, these efforts can be just as effective. You simply have to invest the proper amount of time and resources.This includes being open to trying new channels because you don’t really know what’s going to work until you give it a shot. It’s best to be agnostic when it comes to the digital/non-digital divide.If you take a consistent and patient approach when trying new offline channels, you’ll almost certainly end up finding some that work for you.”Read the full article here: Brian Evans: It’s one thing to collect data, and another thing entirely to use it effectively to drive your marketing efforts. The key to an effective data-driven marketing strategy? Patience and being able to interpret data. “I can’t tell you how many times I’ve seen people give up on a campaign or a niche market too early.

Given a few more weeks and a handful of split tests, they would have been successful.The problem is that a lot of people don’t realize how badly a small sample size can skew their results. They run a campaign for five days and then get depressed at the low level of engagement with the ad. But by running it for five days with a minimal budget, they were only able to reach a tiny percentage of their target audience.

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Discrepancies always arise in a small sample size.For example, if I asked the next 10 people I meet what they think about my favorite movie, they all might agree that it’s great. That doesn’t mean everyone in Los Angeles thinks the same way, or that the ratio would hold up for a larger audience.If you have confidence in your idea and you’re committed to testing it, then you have to be patient as well. You need self-restraint to consider the data you receive and identify whether or not the sample size is misleading.”Read the full article here: Gary Lyng: Know and speak to your audience.

“As is critical in all kinds of storytelling, you have to remember who your story is for. Different audiences require different means of messaging, modes of expression, and topical focuses. If you’re telling the story of your company or product to someone steeped in IT knowledge, emphasis on the technological bells and whistles––speeds, feeds, and features––might make sense. Not everyone will care as much, however, about how your high-performance storage system developed on flash runs quickly and reliably.Some target customers at the executive level, for example, may care more about earnings per share or cost-saving mechanisms than speed or features of a particular product.This is a lesson I’ve learned and observed as a product leader and marketer: Different audiences necessitate different storytelling objectives.

What matters is what resonates at one’s core.In light of this, talk to your customers to find out what they need and what they’re interested in. And it benefits you, too, to get specific. Before a sales pitch, actually ask potential customers about their objectives, about the things they want to stop doing and the things they want to create. Then, cater your story around that.”Read the full article here.