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Line of Sight Marketing: Use of Advertising Cookies

In the last post on Line of Sight Marketing, the focus was on capturing website visitors contact information for an email marketing program. In this post, we explore how advertising buys that are intended to prospect for new customers can employ line of sight marketing without requiring the user to register or login.

One of the key tools in an advertiser’s toolbox is the “cookie.” Cookies are a common component of most website tracking and online advertising targeting systems and are defined as: “A message given to a Web browser by a Web server. The browser stores the message in a text file. The message is then sent back to the server each time the browser requests a page from the server.”

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Line of Sight Marketing

One of your most important assets is your customer list. Managing this asset effectively is as critical as managing your finances or intellectual property. One of the most important things you can do with your customer list is to retain a ‘line of sight’ with each customer.

Line of sight marketing implies that the conversation with the customer is continuous and uninterrupted. When the line of sight is broken, the connection with the customer is over and the customer must be ‘found’ again or replaced before restarting the conversation.

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