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Below are a few of our favorite direct marketing articles that we found on the USPS website. 

Direct Mail tactics for customer loyalty

Direct mail is a powerful channel for retention marketing. Go beyond your tried and true methods—sending offers and discounts in the hopes of re-engaging your existing customers. Discover how to attract lost customers with a business reply card, your latest creative campaign and more.

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5 Myths about Millennials and Mail

There are many facts available on how to tap into millennials buying power. Digital marketing isn’t the only way to reach the up-and-coming generation. Discover how direct mail plays into the equation.   

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6 ways to measure Direct Mail success

Every marketing campaign gives a company the chance to learn and improve, and more importantly, find the tactics that spell out success. Today, companies employ a number of popular methods in order to measure and fine-turn their direct mail efforts. They include QR codes, activation codes, social media and more. Discover which options work best for you.

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Merging Social Media and Direct Mail

Social media and direct marketing exist in two different worlds, but together they stand to create an even more powerful marketing strategy. While data from social media is crucial for optimizing future social media campaigns, it can also be harnessed to enhance direct mail efforts by fine-tuning the messaging and target audience. Direct mail can similarly be used to enhance a social media campaign, by capturing consumer attention and directing an audience to a company’s online platforms. Working hand in hand, these two channels can boost the effectiveness of a campaign and create valuable insights.

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For a lot of people, the phrase “direct mail” conjures up images of 50% off coupons for vacuum cleaners. In short: junk mail. But when it’s done well, it works. Harvard Business Review says that response rates for direct mail are more than twice as high as email, display ads, and paid search. Turns out direct mail can be a great channel for engaging with potential customers. But what does a successful campaign look like? What kinds of offers attract more leads? In this post, we’ll look at six direct mail examples to spark ideas of your own. Keep your eye out for these best practices:

I would wager that most business owners under the age of 35 probably have never even considered running a direct mail marketing campaign for their business. Having grown up in an increasingly paperless world, the mere concept of spending precious marketing dollars on printing up thousands of pieces of paper to stuff into mailboxes across a large swath of people seems pretty crazy to the younger generation of entrepreneurs – and it’s not a baseless feeling. There’s no denying that the business world (and our world in general) has been dramatically swinging toward the quicker, more efficient, much cheaper, and much more environmentally friendly realm of electronic communication. But does direct mail marketing actually work?

The cost of a mailing list depends on the type of list you purchase. An Occupant List starts at about $12.00 per thousand records. A Consumer List starts at $33.66 per thousand and a Business List will run about $45.00 per thousand records.

Mail lists make the most sense if you are trying to target a particular demographic group, based on household income, purchase history, gender, etc.  Be aware that the more you mine the data, the more expensive the per record cost becomes. The upside of mining is that your purchased list of names may be much smaller and the propensity for those individuals to purchase your product or service is much higher. As an example, if you were a Dog Groomer sending Direct Mail to 1000 households at 5¢ a record ($50), that might sound like a good investment.  But if you mined that same data for 10¢ per record for dog owners and found that only 400 people owned dogs, you’re now at $40 and the people receiving your mail have a 300% greater likely hood of using your service!

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...at AMPlified Mail!  We can guide you in the right direction for Mailing List decision making.  In fact, we have products that allow you to mail to every home in an entire zip code without purchasing a list at all!  Give us a call, we’ll be happy to assist.