Have you noticed? There has been a significant shift in focus from customer acquisition to customer retention. While businesses have long used intelligent, integrated strategies combining direct mail, email, and social media marketing to acquire new customers, there has been a steady shift to prioritizing customer retention. A recent Marketing Dive survey found that 38% [...]
As a brick-and-mortar location, you know how important it is to engage your customers in every way possible. Even if you are already sending direct mail, blasting emails, and advertising on social media, there may be a channel you have overlooked—your location. Your store, office, or café can be the perfect place to advertise [...]
Looking forward to 2023, what tone will you use in your direct mail pieces? The emails that you craft? After analyzing 240 million data points on U.S. Internet users, GWI, an audience-targeting company, has some suggestions. It found that the uncertainty and unsettledness over the last few years have profoundly impacted consumers’ psyches. They crave [...]
In marketing, a well-designed logo or website can differentiate between a successful campaign and one that falls flat. But what makes for good design? Often, it's simplicity. The most straightforward designs can be the most effective. Here's a look at how simplicity can generate trust and credibility. The Role of Color Color is one of [...]
Looking for a simple, yet effective way to create targeted mailings? Try using ZIP Codes. By identifying ZIP Codes with large percentages of residents that match your desired audience, you can create highly effective campaigns at very reasonable cost. Let’s look at five ZIP Code filters: age bracket, household income, presence of children in the [...]
Did you know that the words in the marketing copy of your emails and direct mail pieces can be seen as positive or negative? According to MECLABS, which researches how people make buying decisions, if your positive words outweigh the negative ones, you can boost your conversion rates substantially. MECLABS gives the following examples from [...]
Would it surprise you to learn that by using forest products (including paper), you are helping to increase the number of trees around us? Improve overall forest health? It’s not something we talk about as much as we should, but the use of paper and paper-based products has a positive impact on the environment. Here [...]
We have all seen them at one time or another. The not-so-illusive yard sign has been a staple marketing tool for both professional and personal use for many years. Garage sales, graduation parties and “For Sale By Owner” signs populate homeowner yards all year round, helping bring attention to a passerby in hopes that a [...]
Tradeshows are here…are you ready or need a refresh to your design? We have put together popular strategies to be your survival guide to successful tradeshow marketing. Utilizing one or more of these ideas will help boost your tradeshow attendee engagement and potentially bring in new leads for your brand. When planning for tradeshow [...]
Anyone having success with email marketing knows that, at some point, certain customers “go dark” or stop responding to your offers. This doesn’t necessarily mean that they are no longer interested. Going dark can happen for any number of reasons, including an overflowing inbox. One proven win-back strategy is to re-engage them using oversized postcards. [...]
