demand generation

List Marketing, Next Generation

September 24, 2009

I learned about a start-up that wants to rein­vent list mar­ket­ing: the prac­tice of renting/selling and buy­ing lists of names for the pur­poses of demand gen­er­a­tion. Mar­ket­Fish plans to com­pete directly against the highly frag­mented world of list bro­kers, list man­agers and data­base providers. They want to offer account­abil­ity, pre­dictabil­ity and lots of effi­cien­cies and thereby dis­rupt this noto­ri­ously inef­fi­cient and time-consuming process — “the dark side” of demand gen.