After a number of years working as a direct marketer, Jim felt database marketing would become an area of great innovation and technical progress and switched his professional emphasis to it, founding IMT. His goal was, and remains, to help direct marketers improve their profits by helping them optimize contact management strategies and customer segmentation practices by utilizing cost-effective marketing database techniques blended with a superior data model. Achieving this has required a focus on business and offer strategy, business rules, analytics and modeling, campaign management, and, highly engineered data. Through the years, Jim has collaborated with some of the most successful direct marketers in the U.S. His client list includes Time Inc., Reader's Digest, American Express, Microsoft, Symantec, IDG, Southern Progress, Disney, Rodale Press, and Martha Stewart Living. Before forming IMT, Jim was the founding Consumer Marketing Director of Time Inc.'s Health Magazine from 1986 through 1992. During this time, Health was one of the publishing industry’s fastest-growing magazines. Jim holds a Bachelor of Arts degree from the University of Michigan.
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