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April 9, 2018 Author Address Quality, Direct Mail

MAILERS Online – Free Postal Presorting

Free In-the-Cloud Address Check, NCOALink® Processing, DeDuping & Postal Reports – Every Time! Our end-to-end mailing solution in the Cloud, MAILERS Online, now offers postal presorting, palletization and the ability to verify, clean, standardize and move update addresses for up to 5,000 records – at no cost, every time you use our service. We took the powerful data-cleansing capabilities of…

August 3, 2017 Blog Administrator Article, Creative, Direct Mail

Carpe DM!

By Alan Rosenspan, President, Alan Rosenspan & AssociatesRemember 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, and the first two quarters of 2009 - and…

August 2, 2017 Blog Administrator Article, Creative, Direct Mail

How to Deal with “Do Not Mail” Mania

By PostCom, Association for Postal CommerceThese days in the mailing industry undoubtedly are not the best of times. They may not be the worst either, but they certainly are challenging. For the past three years, those who use mail for business communication and commerce have had to deal with unrelenting attacks by self-styled critics of our industry and practices who…

July 31, 2017 Blog Administrator Article, Direct Mail, Mailing Lists

Prospect Better to Grow Existing Lists

Greg Grdodian, President, Edith Roman-ePost DirectDo you know what you're doing? That's not a personal question. All mailers should ask it when building their customer lists. It means, simply, do you have a plan in place? If it's time to generate more top-line revenue, then it's time to grow your list. It should be done methodically, using tried-and-true direct marketing methods. First,…

July 31, 2017 Blog Administrator Article, Direct Mail, Mailing Lists

Simple Rules to Make the Most of List Rentals

By Dave Scott, CEO, MarketfishThe secret to successful list marketing is good testing. Unfortunately, many companies aren't sure how to test effectively. They simply rent a list of prospects, send out their e-mail to everyone on that list, and wait for the results. When their campaign isn't successful, they assume list marketing doesn't work, and never try it again.If testing…

July 31, 2017 Blog Administrator Article, Direct Mail, Mailing Lists

9 Things to Put in Your List Welcome Messages

By Mark Brownlow, Email Marketing ReportsThe list welcome message is the email that goes out to someone automatically and immediately once you add their email address to your list. They're often marketing disasters...using technical jargon to simply state that address X was added to List Y. Not very engaging.The reason they're so bad is that they usually get set up…

July 31, 2017 Blog Administrator Article, Direct Mail, Mailing Lists

Get Consumers’ Attention with Local Listings

Manish Pate, CEO, Where 2 Get It Have you ever used Google Maps or Yahoo Local to find a restaurant nearby? If so, you've used one of the most powerful online tools available to large and small businesses. The completeness, accuracy, and consistency of this data--called local listings--can turn into a gold mine if the information is managed properly.So, why are…

July 31, 2017 Blog Administrator Direct Mail, Mailing Lists

Demographic Targeting With a Bankruptcy List

By Dave Morgan, Expert Author, ArticlesbaseThe 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 interest to individuals with an inferior…

July 31, 2017 Blog Administrator Article, Direct Mail, Mailing Lists

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 to spend searching for the desired…

July 31, 2017 Blog Administrator Article, Direct Mail, Mailing Lists

Specialized Mailing Lists Make All the Difference

By Joy Gendusa, founder, PostcardManiaIf 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 efforts aren't wasted. There are a…