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How Specialty Print Can Add Value and Boost Revenue
The direct mail industry has evolved to a point where we know that highly-personalized mail drives a higher ROI, but what about mail with print embellishments? At Polaris Direct, we’ve seen increases in engagement when embellishments are added to a personalized...
Your Mailbox Just Went Digital!
Informed Delivery, a convenient (and FREE) service rolled out by the United States Postal Service (USPS) in 2017, provides customers with the option to receive a black-and-white preview (via email)...
2019 Forecast: Cloudy with a Chance of Growth
What’s in Your Mailbox? Part 2: Direct Mail Trend Predictions for 2019 Change often brings about challenges, but always drives progress and growth. Every January, Polaris Direct CEO Judith Maloy...
What’s in Your Mailbox? Part 1: Looking Back at the Hottest Direct Mail Trends
With a new year underway, Polaris Direct is on a continued mission to find new and better ways to serve our direct marketing customers. We find that looking at past trends is a great way to learn...
Best Practices for Keeping Your Data Files Clean
As they say, “Spring has sprung and the grass is ‘ris…now start scrubbing.” Well, maybe the saying doesn’t end quite like that, but spring cleaning is one of those necessary evils we all have to tackle around this time of year. After we kick off the dust and haul out...
Five MORE Tips for a Successful Direct Mail Program
Last year, we shared five tips for successful direct mail. Today, I’ve got five more: Allow no sacred cows. Perhaps you’ve been mailing the same control package for a decade—it’s been working great, there’s been no reason to change course. But if (and/or when) it...
Dating and Direct Marketing: What They Have in Common
We’ve all heard them—disastrous relationship stories. From bad first dates to bad breakups, dating is a tenuous world, one that must be navigated carefully and skillfully. The same is true for direct marketing. One misstep with a prospect (perhaps you talked about...
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...