Direct Marketing Communication at SEAL Communication Company

The appearance of the Internet and new, rapidly changing emerging online technologies have led to some fundamental changes in marketing -- especially direct marketing. Besides the growing popularity of the Internet, the appearance of databases and one-to-one marketing are challenging traditional marketing methods. This thesis attempts to illustrate how direct marketing techniques can be implemented in an IT company. It starts with an overview of the concepts of direct marketing and its techniques and then provides a brief synopsis of its past as well as possible future trends. The differences between B2B and B2C marketing communications are discussed as is the role of direct marketing in the information technology (IT industry). The last section presents a case study -- concluded with the cooperation of SEAL Communication and Oracle -- which demonstrates how an IT company can effectively use direct marketing in order to achieve its goals and build long-lasting and fruitful customer relationships. For the successful execution of the direct marketing campaign, both Internet based tools and traditional methods were applied, in order to show that both of these technologies can be used together when targeting different groups with different needs.