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 [...]
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 [...]
According to research from Parse.ly, 68.7% of content marketers’ decisions come from other teams’ requests. The sales department wants to support the latest product rollout. Management intends to defend its year-end goals. Everyone has a finger in the pie. To be successful, content marketers must do more than fulfill everyone else’s wish lists. By setting [...]
Have you ever noticed that you naturally want to return the favor when someone does something nice for you? As human beings, it’s a reaction that is wired into us, and it can be tapped as part of your direct mail strategy. It’s called “the rule of reciprocity.” The rule of reciprocity is why fitness [...]
Does your business front invite a new visitor with open arms and comfort? Or does it confuse the visitor about who your business is and what your brand has to say? First impressions in business do not stop at the networking event or sales presentation, but continue through to other interactions in the physical world [...]
Did you know that 62% to 90% of our opinions about products, brands, and even our clothing, are based on color? This means that when your target audience first sets eyes on a piece of direct mail or marketing collateral, the very first impression likely isn’t created by the headline, call to action, or the [...]
