Large campaigns - Most efficient way to handle - Not using EMOD

We're using CRMOD but not EMOD for our marketing campaigns. We are not using CRM for B2B but rather for B2C.
We have direct mail campaigns that we send to 200,000 of our contacts, eNewsletters send to about 800,000 contacts (using Interspire). We have not been doing this using CRM before.
I would like to know the best approach to:
1) Pull out these records from CRM (identify the contacts according to marketing targets) - the limit on the analytics would only allow me to extract that information if I enter criteria to segment my contacts in smaller chunks, e.g. by State / Province. The Segmentation Wizard could be used with smaller chunks less than 50,000. Any other methods available?
I used the Wizard for a test and got a segment with few records for which I updated CRM with Campaign Recipient record with status 'Sent'.
2) Sometimes when we hire a company to do our direct mail campaign, our addresses are being verified for change of address. The company we hire then sends back our file with updated addresses. How can we import just the change of address for let's say 35,000 records? In Admin / Data Import, importing addresses does not seem to be available
3) Import responses into CRM (I did some testing by entering campaign recipients and set the status to 'Message Opened' & Delivery Status to 'Opened' (both using Wizard segment update and also using the user interface) but when I try to pull the #s in Analytics (Campaign Response history) I see the following metric being populated:
- # Recipients
but not:
- # of responders
- # of Responses
- # of open responses
- Avg days to respond
My questions here are:
- How on earth do prep my data so that these fields populate? Are they strictly reserved for EMOD?
- What's the best approach to load 200,000 reponses back into CRM?
- Is such large volume for campaign recipients and responses going to impact our performance? If so, what approach would be recommended to improve that?
4) Are the # opt ins, opt outs, global opt ins and global opt outs only available for EMOD or can they be used if another marketing email system is used? If we can use, how can we best load into CRM for large numbers?
5) Documentation on Metrics is hard to find... Anyone can tell me what fields are involved in the Campaign Responses metrics and the criteria that would impact the metrics?
Thanks. I know that it is lots of questions but we are new at integrating our marketing campaign efforts into CRM and find that with large numbers, unless one knows the best approach to handle them, one can also impact the system performance greatly.
Nathalie

Afternoon,
1) I would create reports that have filters that segment into smaller chunks and extract them into csv format. Once you have this information into the contacts that you want to use then you can use the bulk data load process.
2) This information is available for reporting please make sure you you have given access to this information within the profile as well as the layout type is not read only.
3) this information is viewable within my reporting (Campaign Response History)
My questions here are:
- How on earth do prep my data so that these fields populate? Are they strictly reserved for EMOD?
-----Make the system auto create these values on creation.
- What's the best approach to load 200,000 responses back into CRM?
-----Web services
- Is such large volume for campaign recipients and responses going to impact our performance? If so, what approach would be recommended to improve that?
-----No this should have no impact at all.....
4) You would have to import the data from the other mail program to the CRM and EMOD, you could perform this through Data loads back into the CRM.
5)I believe i have read some of this information though help somewhere i would suggest looking around on help for EMOD.

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