Direct Marketing

Dave has led the planning and execution of integrated marketing campaigns aimed at small and medium sized businesses.  These campaigns incorporate both brand awareness and direct response strategies.  These campaigns increased monthly sales over 100%.   Dave also understands the importance of profitable growth and works closely with the agency to optimize media mix and meet aggressive financial objectives.
Experience
Demand generation
- Managed a $30 million demand generation budget.
- Responsible for media strategy and execution
- Leads planning of awareness and direct response campaigns
- Utilizes a wide range of media vehicles including television, radio, on-line, print, direct mail,
   and email
- Manages agency’s media buying activities.  Agencies include Gee Jeffery and Partners of
   Tornoto and Wunderman, the direct arm of  Young and Rubicam, and Carat.
Lead Generation
- Manages profiling and targeting activities
- Manages acquisition of outbound lists for telesales activity.
Offers and Sales Programs
- Developed and executed offer strategies including special pricing and rebates that increased
  close rates and influenced product mix.
- Developed and executed sales programs for field and telesales, including contests, spiffs, and
  rewards to aid in meeting near term tactical objectives.
Tracking/Reporting
- Develops intricate models for predicting response forecast, order forecasts and acquisition
  costs.
- Manages tracking and reporting of response and order rates as well as acquisition costs by
  media vehicle.