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Got Incentive? Are You Matching the Right Incentive to the Right Audience?
Incentives can be critical to getting people to respond to your marketing offer, and not every incentive will motivate every buyer. The...
Oct 17, 20192 min read


Are You Giving Your Mailing List Enough Love?
Quick! If you had to identify the most important component of your marketing, what would you say? Did you say your mailing list? If so,...
Oct 8, 20192 min read


9 Components Every Marketing Campaign Must Have
Want to make your marketing campaigns the most effective they can be? Be sure to hit all of the key marketing components. Most marketers...
Oct 2, 20192 min read


Profile before you personalize
Want to rock the results of your next personalized marketing campaign? Profile before you personalize! What do we mean by that? We mean...
Sep 25, 20192 min read


9 Buyer Types to Keep Your Eye On
Do You Know These 9 Buyer Types? Do you know who your buyers are? Are they trailblazers? Status seekers? Do they play it safe? Different...
Aug 22, 20192 min read


Top Reasons to Use More Visual Content
You’ve spent weeks developing the messaging for your Spring Fling mailer or your annual fundraising letter. You know your audience. Your...
Jul 23, 20191 min read


How Strong is your Direct Mail Foundation?
Designing a new direct mail campaign? Let the creativity flow! However, the basics still need to come first. Before setting your designer...
Jun 25, 20192 min read


Not Personalizing Yet? 3 Data Points You Need to Know
Are you among the marketers who have not yet started sending personalized direct mail and email communications? Are you still using a...
Jun 13, 20191 min read


The Hottest New Market: Your Own Customers!
Often, when we want to boost revenues, we think about drumming up new customers. But why not look to your existing customers instead? You...
May 23, 20192 min read


Language Your Audience “Gets”
Whether you are writing copy for a postcard or an email, the language you use matters. Just like products and images, the wording you...
May 3, 20192 min read


Want Better Results? Go Interactive!
If you want to sell a kid a toy, invite him to play with it in the toy store. Once the child pushes the buttons, pulls the levers, and...
Apr 5, 20192 min read


Paper Promotes Healthy Forests
Don’t try to pull a fast one on today’s consumers. They are more educated than ever. This includes greenwashing. Despite the many claims...
Mar 18, 20192 min read


Closing the Customer Perception Gap
Ever wonder what your customers really think about you? Instead of guessing, it’s a good idea to ask. Customer surveys sent by direct...
Mar 12, 20192 min read


5 Steps to Customer Loyalty
What does it take to create customer loyalty, the kind of commitment that makes customers stick with you, even when your competitors...
Feb 20, 20192 min read


Bring Out the Best in Your Channels
From a consumer perspective, there isn’t print marketing or digital marketing. It’s all just marketing. What consumers care about is the...
Feb 6, 20192 min read


3 Secret Benefits to Print over Digital
In a world infatuated with digital, print marketers have a secret in their pockets—print. Here are three reasons why print still packs a...
Jan 9, 20192 min read


Marketing Budgets Soar!
Every year, Target Marketing surveys its readership to identify trends for the upcoming marketing year. This year, its “2019 Marketing...
Dec 20, 20182 min read


How Do You Know You’re Spending Smart Money?
So you’ve started personalizing your direct mail campaigns. But how do you know if your efforts are effective? That you’re using the...
Nov 13, 20182 min read


Want Better Results? Drip It!
Which marketing technique works better? Communicating everything to your prospects all at once, or feeding them pieces of your message...
Oct 16, 20182 min read


Want Attention? Use Surprise!
Every year, we look forward to the Superbowl—for the ads, of course. Superbowl ads are known for their funny twists. The laugh comes from...
Sep 24, 20182 min read
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