Preparing for Successful VDP
Figure 1 shows what a list provider tracks. This sample was taken from a Web service that allows you to search one record at a time for $.95. You could get unlimited searches for 24 hours for $9.95. If you only need 10, 15 or 50, this may be the most cost-effective solution.
Now that the data is cleaned up as far as the addresses, it is time to bring data together to create more relevance for the customer. In addition to the data on the original data list, you can create relevance two different ways.
John Leininger is a professor in the Department of Graphic Communications at Clemson University. He has been at Clemson since 1986. He has taught courses in flexography, lithography, digital printing, inks and substrates, as well as the department’s management class dealing with estimating, planning, equipment purchasing, cost analysis and plant layout. Currently, he is focused on the digital printing and variable data market. Contact him at:ljohn@clemson.edu