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Direct mail strategy, credit scoring research, and company news from the MaxDecisions team.

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Direct Mail

Direct Mail vs. Digital Acquisition: Why Predictable Portfolio Growth Belongs in the Mailbox

While digital channels suffer from rising acquisition costs and adverse selection, pre-screened direct mail offers lenders predictable, risk-controlled portfolio growth. Learn how MaxDecisions combines multi-bureau credit data, proprietary response and risk modeling, and turnkey fulfillment to deliver response rates up to 4% and cut CAC.

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COVID19

White Paper: MaxDecisions COVID Personal Credit Impact Analysis

A national credit bureau collaboration sampling millions of Americans reveals unexpected FICO and spending shifts through the pandemic.

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COVID19

What's In Your Mailbox? Episode 2: What's Your COVID19 Direct Mail Response Rate?

Acquisition mail response rates fell to roughly 0.2% in spring 2020 -- here's how to target the audience segments still responding.

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Direct Mail

Why Direct Mail Marketing Is So Popular Amongst Lenders?

USPS delivery guarantees, full targeting control, and mail-scan visibility keep direct mail the top acquisition channel for lenders.

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Fintechs

The FinTech Revolution -- P2P to Distributed Ledger

From Prosper and LendingClub's IPO to blockchain, a look at fintech's disruption of post-2008 banking.

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Credit Score

Unveiling MaxDecisions Subprime Credit Score: A Revolutionary Approach to Credit Decision-Making

A gradient-boosted subprime score built on current bureau attributes -- with built-in Adverse Action transparency.

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Direct Mail

What's In Your Mailbox? Episode 1: Direct Mail vs. Google Adwords

Bidding wars have made digital ads prohibitively expensive -- direct mail lets lenders own their targeting instead of renting it.

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Direct Mail

MaxDecisions Delivers 4% Response Rate In Direct Mail Campaign

An industry-first 4% direct mail response rate delivers a 20X performance increase for a subprime lending client.

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Press Release

For Immediate Release: MaxDecisions, Inc. Expands Into New Headquarters -- McKinney, TX

MaxDecisions expands into a larger McKinney, Texas headquarters to support continued growth in data science and technology.

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