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With the high cost of printing and postage, one has to ask if it’s still worth it to run a Direct Mail campaign. Why not just go with E-Mail?
We believe it is and here’s why.
Nationally, more business advertising budget still goes to direct mail over e-mail because it’s still the medium consumers trust.
You’re not going to get a virus when you open an envelope nor are you automatically going to be put on someone’s e-mail (junk mail) list. Right now at least, you can drill down to select a very narrow group of highly qualified prospects; a service e-mail list owners haven’t been able to catch up with.
When a person goes to their mailbox and picks up their mail, 100% of those people will handle your mailer and decide if they are going to act on it. With e-mail campaigns, you should feel extremely fortunate to have anywhere between 30% to 50% open and read your message.
We look at what we call “Opportunities Lost” when we recommend direct mail or e-mail for a client. Many times we recommend both if they have the budget so they can test what works best for them.
What is “OPPORTUNITIES LOST”?
Let’s say you have a target market of 10,000 consumers you can reach. If you send out an e-mail to them, maybe 3,000 to 5,000 of these consumers will see your message (because of SPAM filters and non-deliverables depending upon the quality of the e-mail list). If you send out a direct mail piece, about 92% to 96% of your market should receive your mailer.
That’s a difference of somewhere between 6,200 to 4,600 prospects you would never have reached with your e-mail campaign but did with your direct mail campaign. Theoretically, those could have been all the buyers who wanted (and needed) your product or service. That is what we call “Opportunities Lost”.
The success of any direct mail campaign is dependent upon these three elements:
40% To Your Highly Targeted List
40% To Your Targeted Offer
20% To Your Killer Copy
We will work with you to not only help you find the right list, but we’ll also be happy to critique your offer and copy to help ensure your best product is going out the door.
Go to our Free Market Analysis page and let’s start a dialogue. We really are list brokers who care and not just order takers.
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