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Direct Mail with a Tech Twist
Who would have thought that direct mail and technology could be best friends? In fact, mail and tech make a perfect pair. Three basic tenets of mail piece design are: 1) it must be visually appealing with storytelling content, 2) offer up testimonials, and 3) include...
2019 USPS Postage Rate Increases Are Coming: Here’s What to Expect
New USPS postage rates are coming, but this shouldn’t come as a surprise, especially to businesses working in the direct mail industry. Postal rates have been in a constant state of change since...
‘Tis the Season for Looking Back and Moving Forward
Every year around this time, we start thinking about the past year, and looking forward to the year to come. This year, Giving Tuesday inspired us to look back and reflect on some of the great...
Getting Personal with High-Speed, 4-Color Variable-Data Inkjet Printing
Modern businesses know that today’s marketing must be diverse. It is no longer viable to use the “spray and pray” tactic in hopes of generating leads and making a profit. While marketing to audience...
In This Age of Marketing, Does Age Matter?
Question: What do a 20-year-old college student and a 34-year-old first-time mom have in common? Answer: Not a whole lot, other than the fact that they have been deemed Millennials. And because they’re both Millennials, you can market to them in exactly the same way,...
Paper: the fifth color
Variable Data Inkjet is all the rage these days—and it should be. After all, it offers marketers the long-awaited opportunity to achieve higher response rates through four-color, highly personalized one-to-one communications. But for Variable Data Printing (VDP) to be...
Powerful Postage
Marketers everywhere, rejoice. The search for higher response rates is over. And in fact, the answer is hidden on every single direct mail appeal you send. Though it is often overlooked as just a necessary—essential, actually—part of a direct mail piece, postage...
Five Tips for a Successful Direct Mail Program
Direct mail is a science. Let me rephrase that—successful direct mail is a science. It takes time and consideration. It takes creativity, patience, and detailed analysis to gain an understanding of what works and what doesn’t. As industry experts, we’ve been part of...
Pack a Punch: the Power of the Self-mailer
From dimensional mailers to oversized envelopes and the more traditional #10 window envelope package, when it comes to direct mail, the options are (almost) endless. Today, however, we’re focusing on the self-mailer as an essential ingredient in your recipe for a...
Direct Mail: The Superhero of Your Multi-Channel Campaign.
As spinach is to Popeye, digital technology is to direct mail. Yes, you read that right. From augmented reality to QR codes, and most recently, high-speed, variable data printing, digital technology has transformed the mail—much like spinach transforms Popeye. How,...