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Breaking Down the Numbers for your Fitness Direct Mail Campaign image

Since the 2020 Pandemic things have certainly shifted in the US. The United States is officially in a recession and people are making cutbacks. So how does the fitness industry keep from being cut out peoples budgets? Well now more than ever people are more conscious on being physically and mentally fit. Your gym can capitalize on that need, but only if you market yourself the right way. There is also another challenge gyms owners have to fight through: an oversaturated fitness market. With so many options outside of a brick and mortar gyms like streaming classes and online coaches, it can feel like a battle trying to stand out. So how do you get people into your gym? Lets ...

Direct Mail Content Ideas for your HVAC Business image

There are many different ways your HVAC company can utilize direct mail. Whether you are wanting to reach new clients, remind current clients, or just let people know who you are, there are several different ways you business can benefit from direct mail. Let's look at some ideas you can use in your next campaign: Use Postcards: Direct mailing can be any paper form, including fliers, newsletters, pamphlets, postcards. Postcards work really well. Anything that has to be physically opened might never be the minute a homeowner realizes it’s marketing material. On the other hand, when they look at a postcard, they’ll inevitably read it for a second. Your marketing message should make a concise point and quickly, so the ...

Grow Your Gym Memberships with Direct Mail image

All Businesses Have Seasons, It doesn't matter what type of organization you're running or even the industry you're operating in, all businesses have seasons - they always have and they always will. The bottom line is that if you don’t anticipate and plan for your seasons, your marketing success will be limited. It doesn't matter if that season is dictated by the calendar, the time of day, a week versus the weekend, a particular holiday or something else entirely. Summer and winter bring weather fluctuations, which means that HVAC companies get their time to shine for just one example. You must have a plan! They key to your marketing success isn't just to understand what these seasons are and how ...

Manage Your Direct Mail Fitness Campaign image

Manage a direct mail campaign yourself can be a time consuming endeavor that start to feel like a part-time job. Now running a direct mail campaign doesn’t have to be as complicated as it sounds though. With services like Dynamicard we can do a lot of the heavy lifting. Ideally, you’ll want to know who’s been sent what and if they’ve received it. This brings us to tracking the effectiveness of your direct mail campaign—otherwise known as ROI. How to Track Direct Mail Campaign ROI Because sending physical mail isn’t free, it’s important to provide a method of tracking the success of your campaign. The average ROI for a direct mail campaign is somewhere between .5 and 2% , so that's a good ...

The Art of Brand Transparency image

At its core, brand transparency means exactly what it sounds like: you’re creating an image that says to everyone listening that YOURS is the brand to be trusted. This means that you say what you mean and you mean what you say, but it also conveys the fact that you’re honest, open, fair and don’t care who knows it. To put it another way, it means that your brand operates in a way that doesn’t just stand up to public scrutiny, but invites it, because you know you have absolutely nothing to hide. There’s a good chance that you’re already operating your business with this mentality, and if you are – terrific. But if you want to make sure as many ...

Reasons Your Lawn Care & Landscaping Mailers and Print Ads “Don’t Work” image

Your Campaign is More About Your Company Than Your Prospect For just a minute, take a deep breath and close your eyes and imagine that you are not a lawn and landscape nerd. I know. It’s hard. Get into the mind of your prospect. Stop copycatting your green industry peers. Look at your direct mail or advertising campaigns and evaluate these areas: Ratio of Empathy & Authority: Look at each word you choose. Imagine your campaign as a recipe. Authority is the salt. Just a pinch will do. Don’t make your prospects gag on award seals, credentials, etc. Photography Messages: Hire a professional and stop relying so much on stock photos (like your competitors). Put clients in your images, using their spaces and living their ...

Targeted Direct Mail Is Not Junk Mail image

According to one recent study, the average household in the United States gets about six pieces of junk mail every single day. In fact, every five days we collectively produce enough junk mail to literally reach the moon. Junk mail as a concept doesn't just damage the environment (roughly one billion pounds wind up in landfills each year, after all) - it also damages the legitimate direct mail marketing efforts that companies like you are engaged in every single day. Shattering The Myth of "Junk" Mail One of the most critical things for you to understand about junk mail is that it is NOT a term used to describe any and all marketing collateral that someone happens to get when they ...

Customer Retention Strategy Matters image

If you need proof that a customer retention strategy should be a critical part of any business, consider the following statistic: it costs as much as five times as much money to attract a new customer than it does to keep an existing one. When it comes to a task as important as this one, there's a reason why many marketers said that direct mail is still one of the most commonly used customer acquisition channels - it's a precise, emotional and effective way to continue to manage those essential relationships at exactly the right moment. Customer Retention Is About Relationship Management One of the most important things to understand about your customer retention strategy is that you need to make sure that you're building ...

Using Direct Mail to Drive Digital Engagement image

In a lot of ways, one of the biggest mistakes that far too many marketers still seem to make involves thinking about print and digital collateral as two totally separate concepts. They may have started out that way, but there is absolutely no reason why they need to exist separately any longer - especially when you consider that they're essentially just two sides of the same basic coin. In fact, many businesses are enjoying tremendous success by using one technique to feed into the other, leveraging the power that only direct mail can provide to actually drive newer and more organic levels of digital engagement. You can do this with your own campaigns, too - you just need to keep ...

Direct Mail Marketing is Far From Dead image

To paraphrase one of the great American authors of all time, "the reports of the death of direct mail have been greatly exaggerated." Yes, it's true that today's marketing world is highly focused on digital methods and avenues like social media or email. However, what you might not realize is that even though everyone carries a smartphone around in their pocket with them all day long, direct mail is STILL continuing to outperform digital in almost every way on a consistent basis. It's true. According to one recent study, direct mail marketing yields an average response rate of 5.1%. Email comes in at just .6% and social media comes in at a slim .4%. Not only that, but for every $167 that ...

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