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  1. What is b2bBaseSM?
  • A cooperative membership database for B2B mailers
  • Collaboration between MeritDirect and Experian
  • Leverages Experian’s transactional data management expertise with
        MeritDirect’s B2B customer acquisition expertise
  • Source of highly responsive B2B prospect names

    2. What are the sources of the database?
  • In-house customer transactional files of:
          i. B2B catalogers
         ii. B2B mailers of seminar and other like services
         iii. Subscription-based B2B newsletters

    3. What makes b2bBaseSM a source of highly responsive prospect
         names?
  • Highly predictive transaction data
  • Highly descriptive data from Experian National Business Database
  • Sophisticated modeling utilizing RFM, product and firmographic data
        to identify the best prospects for each participant

    4. What makes b2bBaseSM better than other membership
         cooperatives?
  • Utilizes superior name matching logic
  • Correctly groups records at company-site and contact level
  • More accurately overlays firmographic data
  • Correctly identifies business sites versus SOHOs
  • Stores up to 50 contacts per business site
  • More accurate, better performing prospect models

    5. How do mailers take advantage of b2bBaseSM benefits?
  • Contribute 0-60 month customer file
  • Work with MeritDirect and or a broker of your choice to direct the
        prospect models

    6. When is b2bBaseSM available?
  • Database updates monthly, current database cut-off is May 20th
  • Participants in the build can pull prospect names from b2bBaseSM in
        late June

    7. How is b2bBaseSM priced?
  • $90/M, no select charges
  • Prospect lists net of housefile
  • Brokers are fully commissionable

    8. Is b2bBaseSM open?
  • Database contributors have access to the listing of other participants
  • Mailers can block direct competitors from accessing any of their
        unique data
  • b2bBaseSM suppresses each contributors unique buyers and
        transaction for security

    9. Whom do I contact about b2bBaseSM?
        Ed Larkin, Director Business Development, MeritDirect
        Phone (518) 399-5676 Email: elarkin@meritdirect.com


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