Carpe DM!
By Alan Rosenspan, President, Alan Rosenspan & Associates Remember how much direct mail you used to receive? How much time it took you to sort through it, see what was interesting or relevant, and select the envelopes you wanted to open? Not anymore. Direct mail volume is down significantly in the last quarter of 2008,…
Demographic Targeting With a Bankruptcy List
By Dave Morgan, Expert Author, Articlesbase The bankruptcy list provides a great opportunity for many companies to acquire a highly targeted list of individuals and businesses who can provide marketing opportunities for a great variety of organizations providing services for debt management, debt counseling, and even high risk lenders who charge an increased rate of…
Use a Specialty Mailing List to Find Customers and Increase Sales
Anthony J Pensabene, Expert Author, EzineArticles.com When a business begins, its executives must think about what population the business’ services and products can best help. The chosen population is known as the target market. Marketing and advertising initiatives are then geared towards intriguing the target market. Smaller businesses may not have a lot of resources…
Specialized Mailing Lists Make All the Difference
By Joy Gendusa, founder, PostcardMania If there is one thing I can’t say enough about, it is that the most important part of your mailing campaign is your mailing list. It is vital that you put the right amount of energy into learning about lists – who to mail to – so that your mailing…
How To Own Your Local Consumer Market With Saturation Mailings
By Bob Martel, president, JMB Marketing Group If you do business locally, or want to enter a new market area quickly, you don’t want to overlook the value of a saturation mailing within a radius of your business, or across a specific ZIP Code™. The USPS® is standing by, waiting to help you deliver a…
Create Your Mailing List
USPS® Website An effective mailing list is more than names and addresses–it’s a record of each person’s buying behaviors. Your customer list can track how often they shop with you, what they typically buy, and how much they spend. Keeping track of your customers and their purchasing habits will help you to personalize offers and…
7 Questions to Ask an E-Mail List Vendor
Kendra Jaros, manager, internet.com newsletter publishing group Renting third-party lists is one of the most common ways to acquire customers and/or build in-house email lists. Where do you begin? Doing your homework saves headaches later — headaches driven by poor results, spam complaints, wasted time and money, and bad public relations. There seem to be…
7 Reasons to Leverage New Homeowner Mailing Lists
By Mark Mauser, Articlesbase New homeowners represent an enormous profit opportunity for local businesses. On average, about 41 million Americans move each year. Having just moved into a new neighborhood, these individuals and families have yet to find local businesses they will form lasting relationships with. New movers represent a hot opportunity for local businesses…
How to Build Your Own Mailing List
By Admin, Consumer Mailing Lists to Fit Any Budget Do you want to reach a lot of people? If the answer is yes, then you need to build your own mailing list. A mailing list is also called a consumer list because the people you try to reach out to are, in fact, your customers.…
List Hygiene: Your Smartest Move
By Lou Mastria, chief privacy officer and vice president of public affairs, NextAction Corp Can there be targeted marketing without accurate information? I say no. From e-mail to direct mail, the need for sound list hygiene practices is not only ever-present, but ever-increasing. Why? For me, it comes down to the belief that a global…