LEEDS, UNITED KINGDOM — (Marketwire) — 08/16/12 — Transport company First Group is using state-of-the-art and direct marketing tools from Callcredit Information Group in order to increase the numbers of customers using its services.
The company, which runs bus services across the UK, has signed up to use Callcredit-s MICROVISION system to profile consumers who live close to specific First bus routes. The powerful Geographical Information System (GIS) modelling tool allows First to accurately plot out routes and identify existing and prospective customer types living within specific catchment areas.
This is supported by Callcredit-s Intelligence Creation (IC) tool, which allows First to use MICROVISION data to build targeted direct mail lists, in order to promote bus routes and ticket offers to the most appropriate groups.
In addition, regional subsidiaries First Greater Manchester and First Leeds have recently conducted a trial adding an email element to their direct mail campaigns, using data from Callcredit-s flagship Define consumer database, which has resulted in an 88% increase in registrations for marketing information and a 90% increase in money saving coupons being printed within one week of the email campaign being launched. First Group is currently looking into extending this approach across its UK network.
Linda Davies, Marketing Officer (North Region) at First Group, said: “We are always looking for new ways of promoting our services and tickets to new and existing customers and, with MICROVISION and IC, Callcredit offered the perfect solution.
“With a network covering much of the UK, being able to map our bus routes directly into Microvision and specify catchment areas was invaluable in helping us to identify and segment customers with pin-point precision, enabling us to build highly-targeted . We have also been very impressed with the results of the email trial in Manchester and Leeds, and we are working with Callcredit to explore ways of extending this to other First regions in the near future.”
Glyn Cowlishaw, account director at Callcredit Information Group, said: “MICROVISION is a sophisticated and flexible system that can be used in a variety of ways – from to – making it ideal for First Group in helping to increase ticket sales, raise awareness of routes and encourage more customers to use the bus.
“We are very pleased that First-s Manchester and Leeds teams have also been able to realise the uplift and cost benefits of including an email element in their campaigns with the help of our Define database, which boasts the most in-depth and up-to-date information currently available on the market. We are looking forward to working with First on future campaigns.”
About Callcredit Information Group –
Callcredit Information Group-s leading approach to deploying consumer information brings together experts across the fields of credit referencing, marketing services, interactive solutions and consultative analytics to provide clients with a range of innovative and effective products to discover new customers and to engage with current customers to optimise and increase profitability.
Products include award-winning fraud verification tools and database solutions to positively verify consumers, global operations to help expand businesses into new markets, digital solutions to improve the overall journey consumers make during interaction with a brand, customer handling to ensure consumer satisfaction at all levels and consumer marketing data and segmentation to improve understanding and targeting of customers and prospects.
Callcredit also offers products for their clients to assess a customer-s credit risk and affordability and their experts in collections and recoveries provide tailored debt recovery and tracing tools. Their market analysis and network planning function helps organisations develop profitable retail networks, and their tools in multi bureau, analytics and metrics work to provide fully assessed bureau data.
Contacts:
Callcredit Information Group
Duncan Bowker
PR Manager
0113 388 4300 or Mobile: 07557 263 660
Callcredit Information Group
Lucy Smith
Press Officer
0113 388 4300 or Mobile: 0786 739 5104
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