Welcome to the March Prospect Download round-up of useful marketing trends for businesses in the UK.

Each month we bring you the latest trends amongst UK businesses and consumers, all drawn from the range of Selectabase direct marketing lists. According to the most recent month’s data we identified the following…..

March 2012

This month we updated and fully restored Prospect Download Business & Consumer from Selectabase. This means that you could now have access to 2,639,728 businesses UK wide and 36,861,345 consumers UK wide!!

Why use Prospect Download Business?

Use Prospect Download 24 hours a day, 7 days a week to buy and download business-to-business mailing lists. Register online now and receive 50 free list credits in your account ready for you to download sample data. Read more »

Welcome to the March Birthday Mailings round-up of useful marketing trends for businesses in the UK.

Each month we bring you the latest trends amongst UK businesses and consumers, all drawn from the range of Selectabase direct marketing lists. According to the most recent month’s data we identified the following…..

March 2012

This month Birthday Mailings from Selectabase identified 142,941 individuals who are celebrating a milestone birthday in March 2012. These individuals may be turning 21, 25, 30, 40, 50, 60 or 65. The most popular birthday milestone was 21, with 23,779 individuals turning 21 in March 2012.

Why should businesses contact consumers on their birthday?

In the course of promoting our Birthday Mailings marketing leads, we are often asked why businesses should target their marketing to consumers on their birthday? The answer is that celebrating a birthday can trigger a range of opportunities for many different types of business – even when times are tough economically. So here we examine the science behind a birthday celebration.

There’s one time of year when consumers still spend money (no matter how tough the economy) and that’s when a birthday is celebrated. Businesses could well benefit from tapping into this extra spend.

Broadly speaking birthday spending falls into two different categories; self purchase and gift purchase… Read more »

Welcome to the March New B2B round-up of useful marketing trends for businesses in the UK.

Each month we bring you the latest trends amongst UK businesses and consumers, all drawn from the range of Selectabase direct marketing lists. According to the most recent month’s data we identified the following…..

March 2012

This month 4,495 new business start ups were identified by New B2B from Selectabase. Domestic Cleaners were the most popular type of start up in the UK with a whopping 111 Domestic Cleaners captured in March 2012. We also identified an additional 8 Domestic Cleaners who either relocated, changed ownership, were a new branch or franchise or had a change of function.

Why Domestic Cleaners?

Like us, you may be asking “Why Domestic Cleaners”? As we found from www.startups.co.uk/cleaning-business there are plenty of reasons to start up a Domestic Cleaning Business;

“A cleaning business is a popular choice for sole traders. In theory all you need is a sponge, a bottle of Flash and some good old elbow grease.

Cleaning businesses cover everything from one cleaner with a couple of domestic properties to maintain each week, to a large commercial business with thousands of staff on the books. There are domestic cleaners, office cleaners, hospital and school cleaners and then let’s not forget the other niches in this industry such as carpet, window and vehicle cleaners.

According to the Cleaning and Support Services Association (CSSA), the cleaning and support services industry is worth around £10bn, and employs approximately 820,000 people. The industry is traditionally dominated by small organisations, with around a third of all UK cleaning staff working within companies with no more than nine employees.”

What is New B2B?

New B2B from Selectabase is a unique direct marketing solution that provides you with a monthly list of all the latest new and changing businesses in your chosen postcode area. New B2B provides a constant and easily manageable source of new business leads that simply have to be followed up by letter or telephone. With New B2B you can select the opportunity type, postcode area and even industry type. This means if you are a supplier to a specific industry we can help! Visit www.selectabase.co.uk/newb2b/ for more info now!

Welcome to the October round-up of useful marketing trends for businesses in the UK.

Each month we bring you the latest trends amongst UK businesses and consumers, all drawn from the range of Selectabase direct marketing lists. According to the most recent month’s data we identified the following trends…

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