Suzanne Obermire

Suzanne has over 20 years of direct marketing experience. She has consulted with many high-profile clients representing a wide variety of industries. This significant industry understanding helped Suzanne to create her unique vision of creating a consulting firm that focuses both on customer behavior and overall profitability when developing marketing strategy. Hence, RRW was born in 2004 with its strong back-bone that relies on data and analytics–always applied to solving client-specific marketing problems.

Career Accomplishments:

  • Data and Industry Expertise: Suzanne has either worked for or purchased from all of the leading direct marketing vendors in the nation. She spent over 10 years of her career representing data, data processing and database services for Metromail, Experian and Database America (now InfoUSA), where she consistently was recognized as a high-performer. Her hands-on sales experience has given her a grasp of what tools and products work and which don’t. She brings this deep-level understanding of the marketplace to each consulting assignment and every client project.

  • Creativity: Suzanne also has agency experience through her tenure at a leading West Coast direct response advertising agency, HDM Worldwide Direct. As Account Manager, she was the liaison between the client, creative services and production. Accounts she supported included: Pacific Bell, American Suzuki Motorcycles and Las Brisas Resorts. Suzanne’s creative skills allow her to bring a unique perspective to each new client engagement. Suzanne consistently brings compelling ideas to her clients that help them move their marketing strategy forward. She is a creative and out-of-the-box thinker - and more often than not, our clients are astounded by the positive effect that her ideas have on their business.

  • Client focus: Suzanne understands that developing excellent relationships (both with clients and vendors) is crucial to building and maintaining successful business. Suzanne counts herself fortunate to enjoy many long-term relationships that have withstood the test of time and changes in and across industries. RRW’s clients can always count on Suzanne to bring them the best ideas, exceptional customer support and responsiveness, and a fresh outlook on how to make their businesses more successful.

  • Analytical Approach: Suzanne’s analytical approach has helped her clients develop programs with a focus on customer profitability. She has implemented successful customer acquisition programs and has designed effective retention strategies. She has experience in creating and tracking direct mail, telemarketing and e-mail campaigns. Her ability to design analyses that positively impacts new program design has helped our clients effectively establish and grow new, profitable target markets.
Suzanne holds an undergraduate degree from California State University, where she graduated with high honors in Communications/Advertising. Suzanne happily makes her home in Portland, Oregon.