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Dan Harlacher

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626 total appearances

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The Home Service Expert Podcast
Why Direct Mail Still Dominates Home Service Marketing (Dan Harlacher)

And so first things first is anytime we're going to work with data against those residential households, whether it's customer supplied or data that we draw in from our sources, we're refreshing that residential list every 30 days nationwide.

The Home Service Expert Podcast
Why Direct Mail Still Dominates Home Service Marketing (Dan Harlacher)

So when we do any modeling or indexing, it's being bounced back off to a most recent residential address record list wherever we want to go.

The Home Service Expert Podcast
Why Direct Mail Still Dominates Home Service Marketing (Dan Harlacher)

But when we work with data and you mentioned, you know, your reluctance at first about providing data to us, I'm happy to report we probably have over 2000 home improvement home service clients that are now sharing their data with us.

The Home Service Expert Podcast
Why Direct Mail Still Dominates Home Service Marketing (Dan Harlacher)

So essentially under NDA and all the work that we do with data here is all SOC 2 compliant.

The Home Service Expert Podcast
Why Direct Mail Still Dominates Home Service Marketing (Dan Harlacher)

We treat it as if it was your mother or father or brother that was doing the work on the data.

The Home Service Expert Podcast
Why Direct Mail Still Dominates Home Service Marketing (Dan Harlacher)

There's only a couple sets of eyes that work with it.

The Home Service Expert Podcast
Why Direct Mail Still Dominates Home Service Marketing (Dan Harlacher)

And we take that information from the CRM files that clients provide to us and we go to work.

The Home Service Expert Podcast
Why Direct Mail Still Dominates Home Service Marketing (Dan Harlacher)

We look at those avatars.

The Home Service Expert Podcast
Why Direct Mail Still Dominates Home Service Marketing (Dan Harlacher)

We try to customer segmentation and analyze who the paying customer is.

The Home Service Expert Podcast
Why Direct Mail Still Dominates Home Service Marketing (Dan Harlacher)

So it's one thing where a lot of companies may say, who's my customer?

The Home Service Expert Podcast
Why Direct Mail Still Dominates Home Service Marketing (Dan Harlacher)

What do they look like?

The Home Service Expert Podcast
Why Direct Mail Still Dominates Home Service Marketing (Dan Harlacher)

When you start at the top of the funnel, it can give you kind of a misread on who you're really going after.

The Home Service Expert Podcast
Why Direct Mail Still Dominates Home Service Marketing (Dan Harlacher)

So we go bottom up.

The Home Service Expert Podcast
Why Direct Mail Still Dominates Home Service Marketing (Dan Harlacher)

We want to go, who are sold net sales customers?

The Home Service Expert Podcast
Why Direct Mail Still Dominates Home Service Marketing (Dan Harlacher)

Look at those address records and then define them into a lifestyle, life stage, attribution state for each one of those households.

The Home Service Expert Podcast
Why Direct Mail Still Dominates Home Service Marketing (Dan Harlacher)

And once we do that, it starts to paint the picture of who the real customers are out there and how do they engage in media.

The Home Service Expert Podcast
Why Direct Mail Still Dominates Home Service Marketing (Dan Harlacher)

So we have the ability to really analyze if I'm a 65 plus age person and my median income is 150 or 200, what is my tech IQ?

The Home Service Expert Podcast
Why Direct Mail Still Dominates Home Service Marketing (Dan Harlacher)

What is my tech engagement?

The Home Service Expert Podcast
Why Direct Mail Still Dominates Home Service Marketing (Dan Harlacher)

How do I engage with the different medias across the landscape?

The Home Service Expert Podcast
Why Direct Mail Still Dominates Home Service Marketing (Dan Harlacher)

So it gives us tremendous insight on making a more accurate and informed decision on bringing proposals to the table in terms of how to effectively use a co-op mail or a shared mail solution to targeting or target it to the right neighborhoods or carrier route levels within zip codes in those neighborhoods.