Tag Archives: direct mail

The NCOA: Postage Cops

You’ve mailed 2500 pieces at the discounted bulk mail rate, saving over $300 in postage compared to first class postage. Then you’re busted, because one solo address on your list is out of date! The postman has now discovered that your list hasn’t been run though the official NCOA (list cleanup) process. It’s like running [...]

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Newsletter Confusion

You know how to build a campaign. It’s Marketing 101, just the basics. A good list, creative design, a great offer. Bingo. We’re told it’s all about the numbers: reach and repetition. Write a great headline, use the right tools, hire a Flash whiz, get an account at Constant Contact. Hang in there. This strategy [...]

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A Basic Direct Mail Marketing Plan

by Bill Alpert Forget the elevator speeches and the boring chamber mixers. Follow this plan and you’ll be more successful in business and in life! 1. Concentrate on pinpointed target market(s). 2. Have at least two good reasons to add a name to your list. 3. Call to check names and titles on your list [...]

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Organic Marketing, Part 2: What's Your Story?

It must have been the 1960s. Still, I can still remember the agony of my junior high history class. It was a mind numbing succession of dates, names and places. The teacher, who may have been old enough to have been present at the signing of the Mayflower Compact, spoke in a monotone drawl that [...]

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