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5 Tips for Great Data

Great marketing starts with high-quality data, but to get great results, that data must be a resource you can trust. How do you make sure that you can trust the information you are working with? Here are five tips from Experian, which provides data profiling, […]

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Why Informed Delivery Might Be Your New Multichannel Best Friend

Want to turn your traditional mailing into a multichannel, multi-touch campaign at no extra cost? To create an effective multichannel campaign, you don’t have to do anything extra beyond sending out your mail. The United States Postal Service does the rest. 

It’s called USPS Informed Delivery, […]

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3 Ways Personalization Benefits Your Non-profit Fundraising

Fundraising is the lifeblood of any nonprofit. If you want people to give to your mission, they need to know about your mission, care about that mission, and understand the difference you make in the world.  

Personalizing
your communications helps achieve these goals. How? Because it […]

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Want to Sell More? Make Your Marketing Customer-Centric

Your customer communications, whether print, email, or mobile, are the face of your business. If your conversation isn’t meaningful, your products never get noticed. That’s why customer-centricity (or making the customer central to every interaction) is critical to your success. Here are five steps to […]

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Persistence Pays Off with 1400% ROI

Very often, buyers need more than one contact before they make a purchase. Sometimes, especially with more complex sales, they need an entire series of contacts to bring awareness, educate, and answer questions. By using gentle persistence and multiple touches, you can get far better […]

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How to Stay in Touch Without Being Annoying

What makes for great direct mail? It’s content, but it’s also timing and frequency. The ideal number of mailings is often said to be eight to ten per year. However, while repetition is essential, you don’t want to annoy people either. To be effective, you […]

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Consumers Continue Their Love Affair with Print

Despite the meteoric rise of digital marketing, consumers still have a love affair with print. From direct mail to packaging to signage and in-store displays, print continues to be critical to marketers’ success. It’s not that marketers need to focus on print to the exclusion […]

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Get More from Your Print Budget with Retargeting

You make a significant investment in your print marketing. Yet even with the most targeted, well-concepted campaign, sometimes you don’t net the sale. Why?

Often, it’s because many conversations need to be kept going before they bear fruit. This is where retargeting comes in. Once a […]

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What to Expect with a Best-in-Class Direct Mail Provider

Do you already have a direct mail provider? Have you been working with the same company for years and think, “Things are going just fine, why make a change?” If you are happy with your current provider, great! But it’s always worth asking the question, […]

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5 Keys to Customer Acquisition

Without direct mail, customer acquisition falls flat. Sound like a bold claim? It is, but there’s a reason—it’s true. Many direct marketers can attest that, without direct mail, their customer acquisition efforts would be less successful.

What makes direct mail so powerful?

1. It is the […]

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