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3 Key Reasons to Integrate Performance Marketing
Direct mail, or as we like to call it, Performance Marketing, offers distinct advantages that digital channels just can’t match. Here are three key reasons why businesses should integrate direct mail into their marketing strategies: 1. Higher Engagement...
Combining the Power of Direct Mail and Digital Marketing with Informed Delivery
Amplify Your Message with Multiple Touchpoints Do you have an upcoming mailing in the works? Now is the time to try out Informed Delivery by USPS. Why? Beginning September 1, 2019, and going through...
Best Practices for Personalized Marketing You Can Learn From Netflix
Make no mistake; Netflix knows exactly what they’re doing. They found a way to undercut traditional cable prices, while still giving viewers what they want. Some might say they’ve also mastered the...
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)...
Five Musts for Direct Mail Fundraising
What do the USO, Smile Train, American Cancer Society and many other large (and small) non-profits have in common? It's not just that they provide life-changing services or that they are household names. Another important commonality is that they also all send direct...
What Will You Do With the Gift of Lower Postage?
It took more than two years, but the day finally came. April 10 marked a momentous occasion when the 4.3% surcharge on postal rates was rolled back—if I listen closely, I can almost hear sighs of relief from direct mail marketers all over the country. Suddenly,...
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,...