Company Background
Unique background based on accountability to results. handshake was founded in 1994 by Tony Raymond
One of the first to successfully apply
marketing segmentation and advertising research tools to general market
and multicultural marketing campaigns, Raymond had 20 years of agency
experience in virtually all major marketing/advertising disciplines
before co-founding handshake in 1994. Raymond has personally
developed and directed record-breaking campaigns for major national
consumer brands such as McDonalds, Toyota, P&G, and Disney. As
Chairman/CEO/CMO, Raymond's focus at handshake is product development and overall corporate growth strategy. and Jon Pelzer.
Tony brought in over 20 years of marketing, advertising and
product development experience, and Jon brought in funding responsibility and business
development experience. Since then, handshake has served companies both big and small, established and start-up, in all types of industries.
handshake Marketing Uniqueness
Pioneers in behavioral targeting and marketing
- In 1985, handshake's
CEO Tony Raymond invented our unique process of linking client customer
data together with standard industry resources in order to provide integrated behavioral targeting solutions:
- A
one-of-a-kind, "one source solution" that delivers linkage across any
type of behavioral target, client databases, internal reports, market
research statistics and more than 60,000 consumer characteristics &
marketing behaviors.
- What we provide is the answer to: how can I achieve behavioral targeting results both online and off-line and on a larger scale?
Unique framework that's both scalable and practical
- Behavioral targeting increases opportunity volumes to go after - while reducing spending waste.
- Our solutions provide marketers with the ability to define targets based upon each brand's intrinsic qualities & value propositions - while still overlaying with traditional demographic
subsets.
- handshake is wholly focused on monetizing assets and accountability to results (and budget limitations)
- All of the applications/solutions we deliver are transferrable/interoperable, so the client is not overly dependent upon handshake.
Owned & operated by experienced marketers and entrepreneurs with decades of "live efforts" success
- Owners and licensees of multiple industry-standard resources
- Core competency of enhancing databases and building custom direct mail (DM) list products
- Industry
experts in reaching/delivering results from niche groups: low/moderate
income, multicultural, ESOL, cause and social marketing efforts
- Solutions provided are not "off the shelf"; all are fine-tuned to the client's specific needs/goals and budgets
- Support for all types of online, digital, wireless, off-line, grassroots and business development activities
- Performance management techniques proven to lower cost of acquisition while growing volumes
More: View our track record and industry experience