Marketing

Today’s Low Direct Mail Volume = Opportunity

By Robert Wendt / April 14, 2011

With the overall economy still down and with so many companies moving their marketing efforts online, mail volume has dropped tremendously. The resulting empty mailboxes present a unique opportunity. While competition to get noticed in email in-boxes keeps growing, a well-crafted direct mail package is now far more likely to garner attention than before. While…

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How to measure the success of your direct mail campaign

By Robert Wendt / March 17, 2011

As a marketer, it’s critical to quantify the effectiveness of your marketing efforts. But how do you define success? Particularly with 1:1 printing, it’s critical to use the right yardstick. Let’s look at seven ways to evaluate the success of a 1:1 print marketing campaign. Examples are greatly simplified for illustration and calculations do not…

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Achieve Marketing Success Through Measurement

By Robert Wendt / February 14, 2011

It is important to take the time to analyze your previous direct mail efforts to ensure a greater return on investment. If you don’t measure results, you won’t know which elements of your campaign worked and which didn’t. If you don’t know what is most effective, you don’t know how to improve campaigns down the…

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Using personalization to deliver your brand’s message

By Robert Wendt / February 3, 2011

Every company has a brand. Your brand is simply what your customers think about you and how they spread that brand to others through word of mouth. Maybe you think you don’t have a brand. If so, that isn’t likely. Invisibility is a brand, too — and it’s one you want to change. Creating a…

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It’s all about choice

By Robert Wendt / November 30, 2010

Can’t figure out the best way for your customers to respond? Let them choose! There are a lot of factors that come into play for a direct mail campaign to be successful. People spend a lot of time thinking about the creative, offer, and target lists. Sometimes we forget about call to action and make…

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How QR Codes can improve response to your marketing

By Robert Wendt / November 22, 2010

Perhaps you’ve seen QR codes in magazine articles or on bulletin boards. They are very similar to barcodes you see printed on your mail or on products in the store, but instead of a series of bars, they are square and use a series of smaller squares or other patterns to create attractive puzzle-like images.…

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