Lights, Camera…SALES Why is direct mail surging in popularity right now? Well, see if this sounds familiar. Your alarm goes off. After the mandatory 15-minute “snooze” you get up, get ready, and go to work. In your home office, that is, or whatever is serving as...
With Direct Mail Your Messages Hit Home Right now, with so many of us working from home, there has never been a better time for direct mail campaigns. Receiving a message in the mail is a breath of fresh air, which I think presents an incredible opportunity for direct...
It’s Simple, Obvious, and You’re Probably Not Doing It You already know where Superior stands on direct mail. We love it, and the reason is that customers love it. At Superior, we provide an incredible spectrum of print services so my enthusiasm doesn’t surprise...
Customized Mailing a “Pig” Success If you follow this blog regularly, you know that I often sing the praises of variable print-on-demand. It’s a great way to customize information for individual customers and prospects to addresses their unique situations and...
“Digital Natives” Are Devoted to Direct Mail In the last few posts, I have been talking about direct mail. A recent case study by the United States Post Office contained some helpful information about “advertising mail.” I passed along useful facts about...
The Hero of Direct Mail In the last few posts, we’ve been talking about direct mail. Research presented by the United States Post Office contained some surprising findings about “advertising mail.” I’ve used it so far to talk about what you might be doing wrong, and...
Without a Strategy, Direct Mail Goes Directly In The Trash You know by now that I’m a big fan of direct mail. But I’m the first to admit that it’s not an automatic “home run.” There are plenty of direct mail success stories. But there are perhaps even more cases in...
Great Looks to Dye For Now that summer is getting into full swing, you probably are spending your share of time at games. It’s great to be outside, soaking up the sun and enjoying the friendly camaraderie on the sidelines or in the stands. If you’re a parent, you are...
Your Business Will Benefit from Knowing The Answer Many people think millennials are so focused on technology that they regard print marketing as outdated and ignore it. Those people apparently don’t know millennials very well. Because millennials want all the print...
Helpful Tip for Direct Mail: “Item-ize” It Recently, I came across an interesting blog post. It focused on how to make direct mail more effective. The author was knowledgeable, and she made some good suggestions. But she forgot the most proven “tactic” of...
The Direct Mail Marketing Secret That’s “Hiding” in Plain Sight You know I’m a big fan of direct mail marketing and printed sales enablement tools. Direct mail, when done properly, is one of the most effective, yet under-utilized, tools a marketer can use to...
When Millennials Spend Time With Your Direct Mail Campaign, They Spend Money, Too I came across an interesting article in MediaPost a couple weeks back. The USPS reported results of a study that showed millennials (yes, that oh-so-wired generation) respond to direct...
Are Catalogs Dead as Sales Enablement Tools? Are catalogs dead? Some think that. And it may be true if your idea of a catalog is one of those six-inch-thick tomes that weighed a ton and did their best work raising you to the dinner table when you were 5. That kind of...
Print Does Wonders For Millennials If you think of millennials as “kids with their faces buried in smartphones all day” you’re missing the point. And you’re likely missing them. Millennials are the people assuming positions of leadership in business today. And...
Sales Enablement Tools Empower Your Sales Force to Succeed Some people believe that sales result from “being in the right place at the right time.” I know that it’s not just luck, or staying the course to build a relationship. Successful selling is also about...
Marketing Departments Counter Digital Dismay With Print I caught a very interesting article the other day on a website that celebrates print media over in the U.K. It talked about how marketers are re-evaluating the benefits of print, and shifting money from digital...
Custom IRC Labels and These Three Ideas Will Increase Sales In several recent posts, I’ve mentioned the success businesses are enjoying with instant redeemable coupon labels, also called IRC labels. Basically, these are coupons in the form of adhesive labels that can...
Smarter Marketing Through Print Management Means a Better Bottom Line For many people, the “magic” of digital communications is starting to fade. They see that when an entire communications program is entrusted to web, email and social media efforts, there is a great...
Direct Mail with Video? Here’s A Marketing Idea That Really Needs Watching If you’re a regular reader, you know I like direct mail because current research shows that it’s a great way to separate yourself from competitors who think “all digital” is the only way to go...
3 Big Reasons Print Newsletters Are Big Business Boosters In Tuesday’s post, I offered several good reasons to include print in your content marketing program. In my opinion, they were pretty compelling reasons. Hidden in that post was a reference to what I would...
