Implementation
Based on your needs analysis and Strategic Input development, we provide custom applications and services to help execute your strategy as efficiently and effectively as possible.
Special Projects
handshake provides support for clients to help internalize or implement the custom solutions we develop for them. This may involve: providing presentation delivery support at executive or sales meetings, identifying and resolving a client's internal data problem, or implementing programs the client is not yet set up to implement.
These special projects do have one common purpose, which is to ensure that the solutions are carried through to a successful result.
Behaviorally-Targeted Campaigns Resource
We provide a "one source" integration and consolidation of all effort elements by unifying targets, markets, tactics, platforms, channels & forecasts into one common resource that is easy for everyone on the team to use individually and collectively.
This saves time and money by helping to build consensus and bring together various disciplines under one actionable framework/plan.
Disciplines/Departments our custom solutions have helped support/improve
- Advertising
- Brand management
- Business development
- Creative
- CRM
- Distribution
- Digital
- Operations & Finance
- Product development
- Promotions
- Research
- Sales
Behaviorally qualified and targeted direct marketing lists
DM That Works is designed to deliver the highest ROI and response and sales lifts, including maximizing response, from direct marketing efforts.
Features:
- Blends the best industry list data and handshake behavioral targeting into a "one source solution": behavioral targets with household level qualifiers.
- Direct marketing (email, direct mail, all other direct-to-home) lists can be integrated or stand alone across:
- existing customer data files
- lead remarketing data files
- other client owned lists
- purchased "Key" target acquisition lists
Benefits/Results:
- Proven to outperform traditionally targeted lists (average of 2.5 times higher) across hundreds of measured efforts.
- Mail return/waste rates average 2/10 of 1% as compared to 10% industry average.
- Web visit rates from behavioral target mailings have averaged 10-15%.
* Note: No claim is made to the exclusive right to use "DM" apart from the mark as shown
Actionable information at your fingertips
Our custom data applications consolidate information assets and provide an easy-to-use interface for your marketing and business development data usage needs.
Unique Database Solutions
These flexible, affordable and scalable solutions work with most common desktop software programs and interface with all types of databases. Each program is custom-built to the client's marketing and business development needs.
In many instances, overall solutions depend upon database sources that do not yet exist and need to be created out of multiple data files from multiple sources. handshake has developed (out of necessity across many projects) a highly specialized ability to license, blend, and build databases. The end product is ordinarily a proprietary blend between client and third party data, resulting in a completely unique data product case by case.
Benefits:
- Instant gratification: Build charts, reports and custom presentation elements on the fly
- Save time & money: Spend more time implementing marketing knowledge and less time manipulating data
- Greater precision: Regionalize and localize all types of outputs
- Portability: Travels with your laptop, fast retrieval
- Flexibility: Supports all types of warehousing tasks such as email/direct mail list pulls
Editions: handshake Library and handshake Reporter

Resource Organizer: All your research, reporting and presentation assets organized and accessible by topic
- Provides ease-of-use access to and retrieval of all types of marketing and sales resources via a desktop-application query engine
- Scalable, easy-to-use desktop repository of all relevant materials (custom handshake deliverables, brand data and research reports, products, services, markets, distributors, customers, etc.)
- Links client’s databases (SQL, Oracle) to third-party/handshake data tables to create a “goldmine” of marketing data
- Predefined, most commonly used reports are easily generated to support all types of marketing and biz dev data usage needs, including:
- Audience/market sizing reports
- Performance tracking and analysis
- Competitive analysis
- Standardized sales presentations

User-Driven Access: All your information assets linked together for unlimited, robust reporting
- Integrates handshake's custom marketing or sales solutions together with client data and applicable third-party licensed data sources
- Expands on the handshake Library to build more customized sales/marketing reports via a more flexible and robust data querying engine
- Users can easily refine data query results, apply custom report parameters, etc. to support all types of value proposition needs.
- Supports all types of marketing and biz dev needs, including:
- Sales planning, projects, presentations
- Performance optimization and forecasting
- All types of custom reports, analysis, database pulls
Learn more: See common objectives and examples of custom solutions or view Strategic Direction or Performance Management products used to create custom solutions.