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Holiday Direct Mail

Spice Up Your Holiday Direct Mail

What a crazy year we are having! Somehow the holidays are approaching already, are you ready? As you start to plan out your holiday direct mail campaigns you should be considering how to spice them up for this year. Both customers and prospects are on the lookout for great deals during the holidays, so now is the time to get started planning yours. Staying ahead of your competition is important this time of the year. Are you ready to get started?

Direct Mail Motivates

Don’t Forget About Direct Mail

Direct mail is a powerful tool in Marketers back pockets. Many marketers have forgotten the gift of direct mail and what it can do to their ROI. Are you one of them? With so many channel options and a focus on a more digital strategy it is not really so surprising that direct mail is left in the pocket. You look at the cost of postage alone and it can be a real turn off. However, if you are not using direct mail you are missing out! Why you say?

Influential Direct Mail

How To Create Influential Direct Mail

Influential direct mail increases your response rates. How is your current direct mail influencing people to buy from you? Are you getting the results you expected? What if you could increase them by changing your narrative? The normal facts based approach is not the best way to reach people. In order to best illustrate the value of your product or service, you need to tell a compelling story. Why? Because emotion trumps logic every time.

Direct Mail Letters

How to Make Your Direct Mail Letters Great

Don’t make the same mistake as other marketers, direct mail letters can be great! Recently direct mail letters have a bad reputation, but a good letter can really generate fabulous sales. So how do you know if you have a good letter or not? We will break it down for you here.

Direct Mail Communication

Create Effective Direct Mail Communication

Too many times marketers are so focused on design that they lose sight of the importance of good copy for great direct mail communication. They end up with direct mail copy writing that is talking at someone instead of to them. This is not effective communication. This is seen as preaching to your prospects and customers. There is no value in that. Don’t waste your time on copy that will not sell, after all that is the whole point to sell your product or service. Let’s look at how to make your direct mail copy sell.

Good Direct Mail

Good Direct Mail Requires Grit

Direct mail is not always an easy marketing channel to do right the first time. It takes persistence and perseverance to get the results you want. Angela Duckworth has written a book called Grit The Power of Passion and Perseverance. This book has many great take a ways for how we can improve our lives, but it is also very applicable to good direct mail marketing. Grit means committing to make things better, not waiting to see if it gets better. Grit takes control of a situation and makes things happen.

Direct Mail

Overcome Resistance To Purchase With Direct Mail

Driving response is the biggest challenge for marketing no matter the channel. One of the best benefits of direct mail is that it has an easier time overcoming the resistance to responding. Of course, not all direct mail works. How can you get your direct mail to drive a better response? Let’s look at 4 tips.

Memorable Direct Mail

How To Create Memorable Direct Mail

So what do I mean by memorable direct mail and why should your direct mail be memorable? By memorable I mean direct mail that really resonates or makes an impression on your prospects and customers. When this happens they are more likely to respond to your offer. After your first hurdle of grabbing attention so that your mail piece does not end up in the trash, your next hurdle is drawing them into your messaging. This is where the memorable part takes place.

Direct Mail Envelope

Do Creative Direct Mail Envelopes Work?

Boring envelopes in 2020? No way!! Envelopes have been a part of direct mail for a very, very long time and many companies still use them the same way they always have. Then they wonder why their results are stagnating. It is time for something different. Envelopes have changed; there are so many different and exciting things you can do with them now. Let’s look at some ideas.

Compelling Direct Mail

Compelling Direct Mail

In order to be as effective as possible your direct mail needs to be compelling. There are several factors involved with this. You need to send to a list of people who will be interested in your product or service, targeting to well qualified people will make your offer more compelling to them. You need a good relevant offer and finally you need a good attention getting design. For now let’s assume you have a good list so that we can focus on your design and your messaging.

Direct Mail Marketing

5 Levels Of Direct Mail Marketing Planning

Let’s clean up direct mail marketing campaigns by planning them out better, with 5 strategies that can help you make the most of your next direct mail campaign.

Create Direct Mail

How To Create Visually Appealing Direct Mail

Since I work in the direct mail world I really keep an eye on my mail box. It’s good to know who is sending what and how I can make that work better for someone else. Too much of the mail I am getting in my mail box is too crowded with text and images. Why are we afraid of blank space on our direct mail? I am overwhelmed and I am willing to be that most people are. Yes you need both images and text, but when you fully cover a large mailer front and back it turns into just noise and noise goes in the trash. So how can we get our message across while using blank space to our advantage?

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