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Is Your Direct Mail Irresistible?

Creating irresistible direct mail is a great way to increase your response rates. Obviously, you need to make sure you are sending the right offers to the right people and that your design is getting noticed. Beyond that though, there are so many fun ways to engage your prospects and customers to drive response. Have you taken a look lately at the mail pieces you are getting? Now, they are more targeted, personalized and engaging than ever before. Technology has allowed us to continually increase ROI! By adding technology, you can draw attention to your mail piece and create a wow factor to make your direct mail irresistible.

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How To Create USPS Informed Delivery® Ads

What is USPS Informed Delivery®? It allows customers who sign up to receive emails with greyscale images of the address side of letter-sized mail pieces that have processed through automated equipment. Why is this helpful for companies that send direct mail? You are now able to send the post office your artwork along with your mail.dat file to be included in the email that is sent to customers with a link to a web page of your choice for the campaign. Basically customers get a digital preview of their mailbox. This means that prior to getting your mail piece people can click on your link and start buying.

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5 Important Direct Mail Lean Principles

First of all, what is Lean? It is a systematic way to reduce waste without sacrificing return on your investment. So how can we apply the lean concept to direct mail campaigns? First you will want to look at both customers and employees. Lean is a great fit, because you can save money with a lean direct mail approach. Reduce internal costs and increase customer response. The more you save, the more you make. Are you ready to apply the five lean principles to your next direct mail campaign?

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The 7 Whys of Direct Mail Strategy

Building a successful direct mail strategy is key. Why, is the best question for so many reasons in marketing. Why gets right down to the main point. If you have children, at some point you have been confronted with the inevitable why questions children have such as, why is the sky blue? That curiosity is natural for all of us, but many times when we are busy we do not take the time to ask many of the why’s we should be asking. Are you asking enough why questions about your direct mail program? Why, you ask? Well without a clearly defined why there are many things that can go wrong with your mail piece. Let’s look at how why can help you create a great mail piece with fabulous results.

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Direct Mail Data Formatting For 2021

So many times, direct mail data formatting is overlooked. The type of information you put in each field can really make a difference when you process data through CASS, DPV and NCOA. The postal service has a set of expected fields for each type of processing and when your data does not match that structure you will have issues with incorrect address or move information.

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How To Get Your Direct Mail Remembered?

Your direct mail is only effective when people remember it and take action. You can drive response when your direct mail is remembered. How often do your direct mail results end up not meeting your expectations? Does your direct mail resonate with your prospects and customers or fall flat? Do they understand and remember what you said? If not, you have a big problem. In order to avoid this you need to be creating direct mail that resonates. Let’s take a look at what you can do to reach maximum results.

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Great Direct Mail Marketing Execution

Great direct mail marketing execution leads to better response rates. Many marketers are great at generating direct mail ideas, building creative and strategy, but when it comes to execution, they fail. Let’s face it, failure is not an option, so build a great execution plan as you build your creative. We have put together some tips for you.

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Creative Direct Mail To Drive Response

Direct mail has been around for a very long time. Therefore, we often see mail pieces that are boring or left unchanged for years. If you continue to send the same old pieces you have been mailing over and over you will see a drop in your response rates. You must create new, fresh, engaging and creative direct mail pieces to get the results you need. Many times, we get the following question: “Why should I continue to mail with all the other channel options?” The simple answer is because it works!

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Examples of Great Direct Mail

You may wish to call me crazy, but I look forward to getting my mail. Since I work with direct mail all the time, I like to see what others are doing. Of course, I am super critical of what I receive; looking at the condition it is in, if there is personalization, if there are errors and if it captures my attention. Every year I expect the mail people send to get better, however I am often disappointed. As marketers we need to do better! Have you been keeping an eye on your mailbox? What worked on you? I keep a stash of the ones that worked on me for reference on client projects. Let’s look at a couple of great ones.

USPS 2021 Postage rate increase

USPS 2021 Postage Rate Increase

USPS 2021 Postage Rate Increase is coming! Expect postage rates to increase on January 24, 2021. For the most part they are modest increases. On October 9, 2020 the USPS filed direct mail postage rate increases with the Postal Regulatory Commission. We expect the PRC to approve the rates in November. Get your rate chart now!

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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?

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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.

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