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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 is Tangible image

While it's certainly true that digital marketing is all the rage these days, a number of recent studies have shown that direct mail marketing and other types of print collateral are more popular (and more effective) than ever. A lot of this comes down to the fact that direct mail, by design, is something that even the best piece of digital collateral can never and will never be: Tangible. It exists in real life. You can hold it in your hand. Share it with your loved ones. Make no mistake, this is one of the most valuable assets you have access to for a variety of different reasons. A Bird in the Hand... Think, for just a moment, about how many emails you get on ...

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 ...

All Businesses Have Seasons – What are Yours? 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 ...

Direct Mail is Tangible. Here’s Why That Matters. image

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The Undying Might of Custom Postcard Printing image

There's an old saying that reminds us that "brevity is the soul of wit," which essentially means that the shorter something is, the more effective it is, too. This, in essence, is why custom postcard advertising is so essential to your larger advertising campaigns. You've got more than just a simple, easy way to get all of the critical information your customer's need into their hands as fast as possible. It's a method that is easy to digest, that won't overwhelm them with information and that is a lot easier to share with their friends and family members than other types of collateral. The Power of Custom Postcard Marketing When you invest in a custom plastic postcard mailer for your next ...

Developing the Right Business Plan Marketing Strategy For Your Organization image

When it comes to marketing, there are often two schools of thought depending on who you talk to. The first says that you should focus on your business first, marketing second. The second insists that this is faulty logic from the jump - that marketing isn't separate from your business, but is instead an organic extension of your business, what it represents and what it's working towards. It always has been, and it always will be. In terms of developing the right business plan marketing strategy to meet your needs, it's safe to say that this is a concept that is very much worth exploring. It All Comes Back to a Purpose The most important thing for you to understand about your business plan ...

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