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How Direct Mail Can Make An Impact With Your Non-Profit image

When people think about getting the word out about non-profit organizations, they probably don’t have the term “marketing” immediately jump into their heads. But they should, because what is fundraising if not marketing from a different perspective? Indeed, if you truly want to make direct mail work for your non-profit, there are a few key techniques you can start using right away. Taking Advantage of the New Era of Non-Profit Marketing By far, one of the most critical steps you need to take as a non-profit to improve your fundraising capabilities involves diversifying as much as possible. Yes, direct mail is a powerful tool and plastic postcards rule the day. But don’t overlook the opportunities that cross-media marketing brings with it. You ...

Plastic Postcard Benefits For Your Franchise image

Whether you own a single franchise or a network of them, marketing your particular type of business can be challenging. Franchises have unique considerations when conducting an advertising campaign that other businesses don’t face, and figuring out how to make the most out of your marketing dollars can feel overwhelming. Television ads, newspaper inserts, e-mail blasts: all of these typical marketing avenues fall short in a number of key ways. A direct mail campaign based on plastic card mailers for franchises can avoid all of the pitfalls of other forms of advertising, however–and Dynamicard is uniquely positioned to help your franchise realize these possibilities. Here are four key benefits of engaging Dynamicard for your direct mail campaign. Long Track-Record As one of ...

Real Estate Marketing Benefits From Personalization image

Buying and/or selling a home is already a more personal experience than most. As a real estate agent or other business professional, you need to leverage that fact to your advantage. This means leaning into the personalization aspect of real estate marketing as heavily – and as often – as you can. Injecting a Bit of Personality Back Into Real Estate Marketing One of the reasons why personalization is so effective in this particular context has to do with the ways in which it takes the natural benefits of targeted mailing even further. With targeted mailing, you’re already going after people in your area who are most likely to want to buy a new home. Whether they’re a first-time home buyer, ...

1st of December, 2022
In: Advertising, Direct Mail Campaign, Mailing Lists, Marketing, Marketing Campaign, Marketing Strategy, Targeted Marketing
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How To Build Better Mailing Lists image

Every business owner wants to find new opportunities to create better and more effective direct mail marketing campaigns, but so many are at a loss regarding where they should specifically begin. The good news is that this goal is actually a lot easier than you think. If you're using the best mailing lists to begin with, so much of the "hard work" to that end has already been done for you! Creating More Effective Campaigns, One Piece of Collateral at a Time Maybe the most important thing to understand about all of this is that direct mail and targeted mailing give you access to a host of unique opportunities that you won't necessarily have through other means. Using the sophisticated tracking ...

1st of August, 2022
In: Advertising, Direct Mail Campaign, Mailing Lists, Marketing, Marketing Campaign, Marketing Strategy, Prospects Lists, Targeted Marketing
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Better Targeting = Better ROI image

A direct mail strategy is never something that should be created blindly. For the best results, you need to draw insight from absolutely every source that you're exposed to - meaning not only the existing relationships that you have with your customers, but the invaluable data that they're also creating on a daily basis. With that in mind, here are a number of key ways that you can expand your targeting capabilities, thus expanding your return on investment at the exact same time. Deepen Your Targeting, Deepen Your ROI Generally speaking, two of the best ways to deepen your targeting capabilities to expand your return on investment come down to two key ideas: descriptive analytics and predictive analytics. To speak to the former, ...

Don’t Let Your Direct Mail Turn Into Junk Mail image

There's absolutely nothing worse than spending hours upon hours coordinating what is objectively the best piece of direct mail marketing collateral you've ever created, only to have it wind up in someone's trash. It's happened to many marketers... but it doesn't have to happen to you! At least, not anymore. If you really want to make sure that you're doing everything you can to keep your direct mail from becoming junk mail, there are a few key things you'll want to keep in mind along the way. Avoiding Junk Mail Curse: Your Guide One of the major reasons why people immediately toss direct mail advertisements into the trash is because of the same basic reason: bad addressing. This includes addressing your mail with ...

Understanding the Power of Plastic Postcards image

Success in terms of marketing is all about getting the right message in front of the right person at exactly the right time - this has always been true and it likely always will be. But how do you make sure that someone actually NOTICES your message when they're receiving more targeted advertisements than ever on a daily basis? The answer is simple: you use a format that they can't help but pay attention to. For many brands, plastic postcards ARE that format and they unlock a myriad of different advantages you won't be able to find anywhere else. Stand Out from the Crowd One of the major benefits that direct mail collateral like plastic postcards bring to the table is that, ...

Utilize Direct Mail Marketing For Your Restaurant image

Are your direct mail pieces checking all the boxes and hitting the targeted mark—every time? Are you sure? What if we told you there was a way they could be? Yep! There is and we can prove it! Attracting Leads in a Digital World Using Direct Mail Tactics Marketing seems to be all about digital these days with websites, apps, and everything in-between. So what does that mean for direct mail? You can't search, stream, browse, or scroll through a direct mail piece like you can with online ads—BUT—you can touch them, which is something you can't do with online ads. Why is that important? Being able to physically touch a unique direct mail piece hits an emotional nerve and jump-starts the intrigue thought process. A Mailbox Versus an Inbox ...

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 ...

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