The unsettled atmosphere surrounding all of us today and every day can create havoc with creativity. Marketing and sales can be a bore if it turns to fodder. Sales can be the bogeyman that our little ones meet on certain nights that need attention. Employees’ creativity becomes limp in a pressurized situation, shortening people’s temper. […]
Digital Marketing
A Perfect Pair: Traditional and Digital
In the days of yonder… at a past time in the history of direct mail, everyone with a mailbox got the same mailing. Occupant eventually became a code name for “here is your junk mail.” But it started to increase sales, so more companies got on the band wagon and started using direct mail. These […]
The Internet Was Made for Direct Marketing
In direct strategy and direct response, using a landing page, or “call-to-action” our copywriters love any word in a mail piece that inspires the readers “to-do-it now.” If you want customer action, it pays to think like a direct response professional. A landing page, also called a “lead capture page”, is a single Web page […]
Getting serious about using email?
Answer these seven questions before you hit send! There are many questions that must be answered way before the email delivery date. Some customers may respond to direct mail, others through social media, a website landing page or even email. If it’s been a while since you’ve sent an email campaign, here’s a how to […]
Keep it simple. Developing customer profiles.
When you start developing customer profiles, keep it simple. Place customers who purchased into one group. Use another prospective group for someone who may still purchase. Add what they purchased or will purchase into the profile. What is the product or service used for? Whatever information you collected for your customer profiles, will perpetuate new […]
