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4 Steps to Measuring Your Direct Mail Campaign’s Success

Direct mail is a great marketing tool and can provide a lot of valuable insights about your customers. How do you know if your direct mail campaign worked? Measure your campaign’s success with these four steps. 1. Start with a Plan Start your direct mail campaign off with a plan and know what you would… Read more »

Take Your Printing Services to the Next Level

As a printing service, your customers rely on you to help them navigate the many decisions and factors that go into printing their direct mail pieces. You offer advice on paper size to postage and everything in between, but if you are wanting to take your printing services to the next level, consider offering data… Read more »

Three Mistakes Mailers Make

Direct mail is still one of the most successful marketing methods. Though it continues to yield high ROI for its users, there are some pitfalls you should avoid. We’ve created a list of three common mistakes mailers make, so you’ll know how to plan, prepare, and execute a more successful campaign.  Mistake #1: Not Analyzing… Read more »

5 Tools to Help You Optimize Your Direct Mail Data

Direct Mail is an incredibly effective marketing system and having updated data only increases its effectiveness. If you’ve wondered how you can optimize your marketing data even more, check out these 5 tools.  1. National Change of Address (NCOA) The National Change of Address dataset is offered by the United States Postal Service and gives… Read more »

Should You Target New Customers or Current Customers?

Selecting a target audience for your next marketing campaign is vital to its success. Whether you choose to address new customers or current customers will determine what your message says, what services or products you offer, and will even affect design decisions for your marketing pieces. In our last article, we looked at what you… Read more »

Who Should You Target? New or Current Customers

When planning out your next marketing campaign, the most important question you should ask is who are we targeting? Are we targeting new customers or are we focusing on our current customer base? This one question will shape your message and design, which platforms you use, and what you offer your audience.  Everyone knows it’s… Read more »

What questions do you have?

Important Questions to Ask: What Questions Do You Have?

Before a potential customer contacts you, they have done their research and added you to their shortlist. This means there’s probably only a handful of questions separating you from their business. Make sure you ask them “What questions do you have?” Creating the space for your customer to ask questions lets them address their concerns… Read more »

Learn from Obstacles
Achieving Greatness

Achieving Greatness Part I: Gather Your Team

Achieving Greatness. For some, that phrase is exciting, inspiring. For others, that phrase sounds hard, but the difference between the person who achieves greatness and the one who doesn’t is one decided to go for it.  Are you ready? 2021 could be the year you say yes and step towards accomplishing your goals. This could… Read more »

Measure Marketing Performance

Was My Marketing Campaign Successful?

The most important question in marketing is did it work? Was my campaign successful? Did we choose the right channels? Did we reach our target audience? If you are unable to measure marketing performance, you may have budget cuts, lose a client, or even face layoffs.  Many people will gather the data results from the… Read more »