
Rising Postal Rates? Don
Posted by Writing Service in Writing Service on 11 30th, 2009The United States Post Office in the past had some trouble with its finances and their solution was to raise the postal rates. Whether or not you agree with this approach to trying to stay in business, like the weather and government in general, it’s something you have to live with.
Many companies have used this as a reason to send out fewer or smaller mailings in an attempt to keep their costs down. Here’s a quote from an issue of Direct Marketing News:
“Despite a string of healthy annual increases, the growth of direct mail expenditures is expected to slow over the next four years. Direct mail continued to grow in 2001 but slowed because of the anthrax scare”, the study said.
The study also said, “Direct mail will continue to expand during the forecast period but at a slower pace than in the past because of the emergence of e-mail marketing and postal rate hikes, which will force marketers to limit mailings.”
The question is: should you agree with this and follow the trend, or should you turn it to your advantage? Just think, with fewer mailing pieces arriving in your customers’ or prospects’ mailboxes, your glossy, full-color postcards are going to stand out even more and have a greater chance of producing the desired response.
When you start looking at what you have to gain by increasing the amount of direct mail marketing you do and what you have to lose by cutting back, there really isn’t a question as to which way to go.
Of course you should be smart about your mailings. Make sure they are really well targeted and put a little more thought into the design and content so as to make sure they impinge. That just makes sense.
So while others are cutting their own throats by cutting back on direct mailing, you can benefit by increasing yours and sending your postcards into a less heavily glutted marketplace where they will receive more attention. Win-win.
More Marketing Dope
Posted by Writing Service in Writing Service on 10 11th, 2009Direct marketing can make you very successful, but you’ve got to understand the basics. Here are some more gems of the industry that can take you from being a diamond in the rough to the luminous bling-bling.
When advertising your product or service, honesty is not only the legal and ethical path, but also the path to the highest amount of repeat business.
Many times companies fall into the trap of trying to “lure” customers in to their store. They make claims that are technically true but are worded in a way that make them sound better than they actually are. The company may not be consciously trying to deceive their customer, but none the less if exactly what is advertised is not delivered the customer will feel deceived. This customer is not likely to do business with this company no matter what their advertising offers in the future. List the benefits of your product factually and deliver what is promised and your customers will keep coming back.
When advertising, it is best to outline the benefits of your product or service. Simply naming the features that it has may not show what it can actually do for your customer.
Example: A car company releases a new model of car that features “new indestructible porcelain brakes”. This fact is touted in all of their commercials but the cars aren’t flying off the lot. It is very likely that the customers in their target market, mostly families that are concerned about safety, have no idea what difference these brakes make in the performance of the vehicle. If they had instead advertised the benefit that the car is “equipped with brakes that can stop your car three times faster” it would have given the customer a compelling reason to be interested.
Think about what the benefit of your product or service is and focus on that. If you are a computer maintenance company your product may be “server management and database maintenance” but you will be better off saying that you can help “increase office productivity by allowing easier access to client files”. Many times your customers don’t understand your business. That is why they have to hire you. Make sure to explain to them not only what you do, but how it can help them.
When a customer gives you their email address you have one more way to get your message to them.
One of the best ways to supplement Direct Mail Marketing is Direct Email Marketing. However, unlike direct mail marketing, unsolicited email marketing is illegal. You can’t just go out and buy a list of email addresses and start sending to them. There is one way to purchase lists for emailing called “opt in” lists but this method is not recommended because the rate of people on the list that actually “opt in” to receiving your promo is very low. This is why you should always collect customers’ email addresses as you are getting their physical addresses.
Also be sure not to slam your customers with too much email promotion. I recommend not sending more than one email per week to each client. Not only will this keep you from angering your customers, it will also keep up the interest level and keep your emails from getting deleted before they are even opened.
If your company is planning on emailing specials or a Monthly Email Newsletter you will need to have this list for them to be effective. If you are not planning on contacting customers and prospects via email, you should be!
How to Name Your Website
Posted by Writing Service in Writing Service on 09 28th, 2009In the past, during the planning stage of a business people would spend long hours thinking about where to set up their business. They would wonder about what old house to buy to turn into the shop. Or was it near enough foot traffic to sustain a business?
Nowadays, with setting up a business online things are a lot quicker and easier but we still have the issue of location, only it has changed.
The question has now become:
What web address / url will bring the most traffic to our website?
With the right URL, potential customers will see it and realize that this website may solve their problem. Or possibly, with the right URL customers will find it catchy enough to remember for a return visit, or to use as a word in conversation with friends.
The big debate amongst the big internet marketing gurus as to how to craft the perfect URL is this…
should it be more descriptive or more catchy?
This sounds like a silly debate. However, it can be one of the number one factors in the amount of profit that your online venture earns.
The name of a business may not seem important to you, the business owner, because you already know everything about your business. You know that you are offering products that are of good quality and that are at least interesting if not useful. You know that your buyers can trust you and that you are a nice lady really…
But your buyers do not know that yet, and the first thing that they will base their judgments of you on is your name. I know it sounds silly and it is. However, studies have proven that within 7 seconds of meeting someone we have already made crucial judgments about their character. If we make these sorts of judgments about people based on superficial factors such as the way the clothes they are wearing and their body language then what do people first judge a website on? It’s name.
Many of the top business online right now have taken this into account.
If you look at many of the most popular websites on the internet right now, eBay for example, their names do not mean anything in and of themselves. The word “eBay” on its own wouldn’t inform me that it is an online auction website with millions of members.
This URL drew traffic (when it wasn’t famous) because it was easy to remember, quick to use in conversation, had a unique sound and was easy to type.
On the opposite end of the spectrum, .howtomakeapotatogun.com is rather self explanatory. This URL draws traffic because it is also easy to remember and people know what they are getting.
However can there be a compromise?
Two of the most popular websites that exist are Myspace.com and Youtube.com To me they seem to be the compromise between these two opposites.
Both vaguely describe their websites but succinctly. These URLs are short, easy-to type traffic-pullers. They are easy to spell, remember and say in conversation but they allude to what they are about.
In your new business start-up you are going to want a brand that is recognizable. You are going to want your own “trademark” name. (Not literally trademarked immediately but you get what I mean.)
You also want your e-business website to be easily accessible and search engine optimized.
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Marketing Strategies: Seven Simple Steps to More Clients in 90 Days
Posted by Writing Service in Writing Service on 08 7th, 2009In my work as a business coach I meet with people every day who have dreams of creating success in their business. Sadly, most of them are saying the same thing, “I hate marketing, I just want to do what I’m good at without having to market myself. “ The truth about getting more clients is that it’s not that difficult, it just requires following some simple steps.
• FOCUS: How do you get to where you want to be unless you know where you are going? I always teach my clients a visualization in which they imagine where they want to be professionally in 1 year from today. How much money do you want to be earning? How many hours a week do you want to work? What kind of clients do you want to work with?
• STRATEGIES: Once you’re clear about where you want to be, you need to create strategies to get there. I tell people, “if you already knew what strategies to use, you’d probably already be there.” Strategies help you to chunk big visions into tangible, bite size action steps
• ACCOUNTABILITY: How accountable are you to yourself? Most people I meet in business for themselves, find it far too easy to slide in keeping their agreements with themselves. The magical thing about coaching is that when you have a witness to your accountability, you are much more likely to do what you said you’d do. Just knowing that someone cares and will ask you every week, “How did that action step go?”, is huge incentive to staying on track.
• DISCOVERY: As a former psychologist, one of my passions is helping people discover how they block them themselves and get in their own way of success. What I find is that everyone needs to reprogram some self-limiting beliefs, like “I don’t have what it takes to succeed” or “I don’t deserve to have a lot of money”. Another block is that most people suffer from subconscious sabotaging strategies, like procrastination . These need to be reversed. Finally , everyone I’ve ever met has a monstrous , overly developed inner critic, which I call the Gremlin. In discovery you learn to identify the voice of you Gremlin and learn to tame it way down.
• PERSPECTIVE: We all spin our wheels and get caught up in our narrow perspective. The best investment we can make in getting more clients is to have people around us that give us the option of another perspective
• SUPPORT: If you are in business for yourself , you need all the support you can get. As you put yourself out there to get more clients, you are assuming the responsibility of helping these clients. Who helps you? Who do you lean on? It is invaluable to have a support team or a committed ally in your corner.
• CELEBRATION: How often do you celebrate yourself? As a coach who teaches people how to get more clients I find that learning to celebrate not only your successes but also your efforts is the way to a long a healthy career. By learning to stop, pause and validate yourself for what you’ve done keeps this process light , fun and exciting. Also, think of how impossible it is for your gremlin to beat you up, if you are busy celebrating yourself! It is one of of the joys of my work that I get to help people truly celebrate themselves.
7 Tips To Save Money on Marketing a Business
Posted by Writing Service in Writing Service on 06 5th, 2009The most effective marketing methods such as advertising in newspapers, popular magazines, on TV are very expensive for small businesses, especially for most start-ups.
Thanks to Internet, in the recent years, some very powerful, and cost-effective, even free marketing strategies have become popular.
Here are some tips to help you save money on marketing your business without sacrificing quality or results. In fact, some of them are very affective to boost your business cost effectively and fast. Implement them repeatedly and save a lot of money and time while attracting hundreds of thousands of more visitors to your website.
1. Link Exchanges
To exchange links with other Web sites is the most popular marketing strategy used by travel and tourism related businesses. Link exchanges help increase link popularity, and the chances to get higher search engine placements and ranks.
In addition, you will have higher chances to be seen by more surfers, to attract more visitors to your Web site, which will highly increase your sales, and return on investment (ROI).
To find the Web sites which are willing to reciprocate links, without the risk of spamming anyone, go to a major search engine such as Yahoo!, Google, MSN, and write in the search bar, for example, “Travel & Tourism Link Exchanges” or, “Travel & Tourism Reciprocal Links”.
The Web sites listed in the first 20 in these sections will provide you with the high quality link exchange resources. To exchange links with these higher ranked Web sites will also help your Web sites get higher ranks.
2. Directories
It is a good strategy to submit your Web site to Travel & Tourism Directories. Because directories have a lot of surfers and visitors who are trying to find the travel and tourism related businesses who offer the best deals to match their needs.
You can reach millions of targeted prospective buyers among these directories’ visitors who might be your loyal customers later on. So, you should not underestimate the power of Directory marketing, and start to submit your Web site to the Travel & Tourism Directories as soon as possible. They will help you promote your business affectively, and mostly for FREE.
You can also find important marketing tips and resources in Directories to grow your business fast.
3. Pictures & Photographs
Images are vital elements to attract readers’ attention to your ads, to your articles & press releases, to your Web sites. Make sure you use charming photos everywhere you can.
How and where to get such charming photos? Always keep in mind that almost all photos and images you can find on the Internet have Copy Rights, which means it’s illegal to use them, so you should never re-publish them without the written permission of the original owners. Or, you will have to pay big amounts of money to settle the possible sues.
You can buy photos online if you find the ones you would like to use. But, the prices of real nice photos are high.
The best cost-effective solution is to take photos yourself, which will also give you the freedom to choose the places, angles, lights, and colors before taking the pictures to your heart’s content.
When taking photographs, try to get as many shots in as possible. Then you would not need to pay other photographers to purchase photos to use in your websites, articles, press releases, and advertisements.
To take photographs yourself will save you a lot of money. If you have a library of images for your advertising needs, you will not only save tremendous amount of money, but save a lot of time, too. You can use them in your brochures, articles, press releases, as well as in your websites, and in your advertisements whenever you need..
4. Try to do What You can Yourself
You can, of course, hire experts to design your website, for writing press releases, articles, copy writing, advertising, photography, professionally.
But, you can do them, at least some of them, yourself when you want to save money. You will then spend money only for tasks that really need the expertise of a professional.
Keeping this in mind, we have provided information in the ‘Grow Your Business Fast’ program, on how to write a successful article yourself, how to write press releases in a traditional news story format, that will look real professional, how to market your products, services, informational material, affiliate programs to become a marketing champion in a few months very cost effectively, saving a lot of money.
5. Articles
When you write an article you can send it out yourself, or send it to a free or pro article distributor who will disseminate it to newsletters, e-zines, magazines, local and national newspapers, websites; follow it up and see if it was published in any of these publications. If it was, you can be sure that it covers certain required values.
Then you can use your ‘accepted & published’ article, or at least parts of it, in your website, in your sales letters, in your advertisements, you can even write it in the traditional news story format, and send it to a press release distributor to be sent out to media outlets.
6. Press-Releases
The best way to send your press releases out, is to submit it to a free or pro press release distributor. If you select a good one, they would send your press release to the media outlets where you would get the best results.
Some of them are experts who know how to do it, depending on their own experiences. If you choose a pro distributor, your chances to get outstanding results would be higher.
Your press release(s) that an editor wrote a news on and published in a popular publication would attract a lot of visitors to your Web site, eventually increases your sales tremendously; also it would be a good sample for you to use the same values in your future press releases.
7. Your Ads
You can implement the same strategies explained in #3 above, for your ads, too. Watch closely which of your ads generated more traffic and sales. Then, use them at your website, in your newsletter, other related newsletters, use the most powerful lines in your signature file, in your classified ads, in the safe mailing lists, e-zines, in your solo ads … everywhere possible, over and over again. Get the same positive results repeatedly.
Make Your Mailing a Home Run, Not a Strike Out!
Posted by Writing Service in Writing Service on 03 10th, 2009You can use great design and copy to get a better response.
When you send a mailing to your customers or prospective customers you are counting on making considerably more money in new business than you spend on the mailing, right? It is obvious that if you were not going to profit from the mailing, you wouldn’t send it out.
A little less obvious is that it costs almost the same amount of money to send out a very attractive mailing piece with brilliant copy which is more likely to produce a great response rate as it does to send out a boring, poorly designed piece guaranteed only to land rapidly in the trash. Why?
The major part of your expenditure is in the mailing list and the postage. The printing costs are about the same for a perfect card as for a mediocre one. All right. So a good design and excellent copy is going to cost a little bit more. But only a little. You send out a postcard mailing to get a response (preferably lots of responses).
The front of the card, graphic and headline, is designed to attract the reader’s interest so that they read what you have to say. In short, to attract his or her attention.
The copy on the front and back of the card is designed to get the reader to respond, either by calling you or e-mailing you or visiting you or going to your web site. A response.
If your card accomplishes that, it’s done its duty.
How do you get it to do that?
Good design. Good copy. Assuming you have sent the cards to people who are likely to be interested in what you have to sell. (There’s no point sending a postcard selling raincoats to people in the Sahara Desert. They are the wrong “public”).
It is more cost effective in the long run to hire a professional to do the design and copy for your promotion instead of spending all the time yourself to learn the software. A little time spent improving the design and copy of your postcards will result in much higher ROI (Return On Investment) for your postcard mailing.
Direct Mail Marketing Done Correctly, Cannot Fail
Posted by Writing Service in Writing Service on 03 3rd, 2009So how do you do it?
Direct mail marketing. When it comes to marketing your product or services there are two basic challenges:
1. How do you obtain new customers or clients?
2. How do you get your existing customers to come back for more?
Direct mail/direct response marketing answers both these challenges admirably (it’s not the only way to do it but it is a proven method that always works). You can ALWAYS rely on DIRECT MAIL MARKETING. The postcard&ndashdirect marketing’s secret weapon…
One of the simplest and most cost-effective forms of direct mail marketing is the POSTCARD. Because postcards work so well they can be considered one of the key small business marketing strategies.
“I switched from sending out a monthly newsletter to my mailing list, to sending out full color post cards.
Not only did it save me money on the cost of printing, but it saved me the hassle of having to prepare the mailings.
Feedback has been very positive from our clients and the leads have been pouring in. Plus my website hits have increased due to promotion or it on our post cards!” Kerry Fuller, Realty Executives
Direct mail marketing strategies…
To get new customers all you need to do is:
1. Get their identities (mailing lists do this).
2. Reach them (direct mail does this).
3. Attract their attention and get your message across (post cards do this perfectly&ndashyou don’t have to open them!).
4. Get them to contact you. (Your mailing piece, letter or, preferably, post card, will do that if it’s well designed and written.)
5. The rest is up to your ability to sell.
To get your existing customers to come back for more all you need to do is:
1. Keep accurate records of your customers (anyone who has ever bought anything from you) in a database and keep it current.
2. Send them frequent mailings. Postcards are excellent. You can send out a newsletter. You can send out personalized letters. But keep contacting them. Tell them about new products or services. Get them to respond.
3. Obviously you have to deliver excellent service or a great product. You will get results with these marketing techniques even if you don’t deliver good service or a great product, but it won’t last long and you won’t be able to maintain it.
4. Remember, the size of your customer base and the number of mailings to it determines how much income you make. Fact.
So, do it correctly and you cannot fail.
Postcard Marketing Done Right
Posted by Writing Service in Writing Service on 01 6th, 2009Say it with a post card. A well designed, colorful, high impact postcard in the mail box of your prospect is your best ticket to a new customer. For your existing customer, a marketing campaign which includes frequent post cards is the perfect start to new sales - this is one of the key small business marketing strategies.
For the recipient:
• You don’t have to open a post card!
• You see it right away, the bright picture is not hidden from view by an envelope.
• The message leaps right out and you can’t ignore it or throw it in the trash unopened (the fate of many bulk mail pieces).
For the marketer:
• Save money. You can mail a post card 1st class for less than the cheapest letter rate.
• No stuffing required.
Postcards win out on all counts.
Check out the following case study.
Here is what one successful postcard marketer had to say:
“The immediate result was many times more than we had expected and we even had to reduce the number of postcards going out each week because we had more calls than we could handle. We’ve always heard that a 1-2% response is considered very good for a mailing but we are getting at least triple that amount!
To give you some idea, the first week’s mailing went out to our oldest customer account, most of whom hadn’t done business with us for over a year. The first week after the post cards went out we got a 3% response on those accounts. And 6 weeks later we are still getting calls from those accounts. “I also know that it takes time for the response to build and just this past week, the 6th or 7th week since we started mailing the postcards, we increased from the 23 calls in per hour average we saw at the beginning of this month to 45 calls per hour in at the end of the month.
“That’s almost 900 calls in per week more than just 4 weeks ago.”
“We’re already planning our next post card mailing and are quite certain that this was one of the best investments in promotion to our existing customers we have ever made.” Ron Nedd at Kevis Rejuvenation Programs, Inc., Beverly Hills, California
Now that is postcard marketing done right!
The Golden Key to Success is in Your Hands, But You Ignore It!
Posted by Writing Service in Writing Service on 12 10th, 2008Success is the Blue Bird everybody is chasing, struggling to catch, but only a few people have been able to grab it!
Most probably, you have been one of the hard chasers, extremely busy writing ad copies, articles, press releases, sending them to media outlets and popular publications, striving night and day to promote your business using the most powerful Internet marketing strategies.
You had subscribed to hundreds of safe mailing lists, ezines, newsletters, sent your ads and articles to them regularly, spending your valuable hours and days. But the response has been disappointing.
Then you tried to hire advertising agencies to make the effective e-mail advertising for you. You paid them a lot of money. Finally you made a number of sales. But the results were far from being satisfying. The money you made did not even cover the expenses.
Then you wrote articles, you hired copywriters to write more articles and press releases for you and you sent them out to thousands of media outlets and thousands of popular publications. To your surprise, the profits you earned were not enough to pay the bills. You wonder why!
You have launched several weblogs (blogs), now you’re working hard to place fresh content in your blogs everyday or every other day, while submitting your blogs, comments, content to other blogs, which take a great deal of time, but you have not received one single visitor to your blogs yet. You don’t know why!
You have purchased an aggregator to read the RSS feeds you were receiving, you also bought a software to turn your articles and press releases into XML and RSS formats before sending them to RSS feed providers and distributors, e-zines, newsletters, news portals, blogs/journals, media outlets and relevant publications.
So, you’re spending a lot of money, time and efforts, struggling like mad to market your business, website, blogs using the most powerful Internet marketing strategies, hoping to make your business a success to earn you a comfortable living.
After so much struggle, tears and sweat, are you happy and satisfied with the results you are getting now? No, most probably you are not!
How do I know? I know, because I had been there, too, until I discovered what was missing. Then I also discovered what the solution was. There is one thing you must do; there is one thing you and I and everybody must do to earn more money. Do it now, do it everyday until the end of your life:
READ !!
You are extremely busy submitting your ads, your articles, your press releases night and day, but you do not read other submissions.
You might say you do read some ads and articles when you find time to read. But I’m sure you find time to read only once in a while, because you’re too busy writing ads, articles, press releases and submitting them to millions of places every day. You are an extremely busy marketer.
All other marketers and business owners are too busy to spare time to read. So, eventually you don’t read other marketer’s articles and ads, and they don’t read yours. Or, you all read only once in a while, which is obviously not enough to produce the positive results to make you happy.
Then what’s the use to work so hard to write articles, press releases, ads, RSS feeds and more, and struggle so hard to post them to millions of portals, websites, media and publications, if nobody or only a few people would read them?
It’s a great waste of time, efforts and money! Of course, there are businesses and individuals who earn truck loads of money, but it’s only a small percentage in a crowd of millions of income seekers.
I am sure that the number of big money makers will grow fast when we learn how to play the game abiding by its rules.
We must admit that we need a great number of audience to read our ads, articles and other content in order to receive the great response we expect.
The great number of audience we need to earn more money is composed of you and I and other online business owners and opportunity seekers.
We can earn more money when our ads and content are read by more people who are our potential customers.
So, you and I and all others must read as much articles, ads, press releases, RSS feeds as we can. There is a simple solution for all income seekers to earn more money, which is a one small magic word.
READ !!
Don’t just write and submit, but read, too.
Read and encourage your friends, members, affiliates, associates, customers, potential customers to read!
If you and all other millions of marketers and income seekers spare one our a day to promote their businesses, they must spare another hour to read other marketers’ ads, articles, press releases, RSS feeds, content at websites and blogs.. Reading must be considered as the important part of Internet marketing.
Reading, you get valuable information on profitable marketing strategies, secrets, tips, new income opportunities, you get motivated, learn how to earn more money, how to improve your website, how to advertise to increase number of traffic, your revenues, sales, and much more.
Benefits you will get from reading is unlimited. If all entrepreneurs, marketers and business owners perceive reading as an extremely important part of their marketing program and spare more time for reading others’ ads and articles daily, can you the imagine the insane amount of increase in everybody’s profits and income?
First of all, you should believe that when reading other business owners’ and marketers’ promotional content, you yourself will benefit from this reading as much as the content writer will.
Read and have other marketers read as much as you and they can. This is the solution to get much more of your potential customers read your marketing materials and reach you. Not only you, but other marketers as well would greatly benefit from reading regularly.
If we all build a reading habit, if we all perceive reading as an important part of marketing, we all could be sure that our ads articles, RSS feeds and other promotions will be read by thousands of more potential customers daily, which will substantially increase the number of our sales, revenues, profits, and ROI (return on investment).
We learn the most powerful Internet marketing tactics and secrets by reading. We find out about new opportunities, new technology, new powerful ways in effective Internet marketing, The benefits we get from reading articles written by other entrepreneurs are unlimited.
Reading is the golden key to success which shouldn’t be ignored. Never!
Keep reading !!
Find the Goldmine within Your Business
Posted by Writing Service in Writing Service on 11 23rd, 2008Doing a current customer breakdown can help you find the goldmine within your business by determining who you should be targeting in your marketing efforts in the future. There is a goldmine right there and you may or may not see it…it’s your customer base! But is it all of them? No &ndash definitely not. Then what the heck am I talking about?
You probably already have some great customers, probably not as many as you would like though. So how do you go about finding more of the kind of customers that make opening your doors worthwhile every day? The first step is to find out everything you can about the customers that you do have. Here’s how to start:
1. Get Accurate Sales Numbers - How do you determine what a “good customer” is? More than likely it is a loyal customer who keeps coming back to spend money with your business. This is why the first step you take should be to determine how many sales each customer has and what total income each customer has provided you.
2. Decide What You Consider “Good” - Is your product or service a one shot deal? Or can your customers come back again and again? If they can come back, you’ll want to find out their average order or purchase size in a dollar amount and also how many times they’ve purchased… You’ll see that they’ll fall into categories. Maybe 10% are big spenders but 30% purchase consistently. Obviously this will vary depending on what type of business you have. If you sell a product or service where it is unlikely your customer will need you again, figure out what range of purchase size makes up most of your income. It really varies from business to business. For instance, if you’re a Realtor you may sell many more homes between 100 and 200 thousand, but most of your actual income came from one giant purchase… Maybe a 2 million dollar home… You don’t want to ignore your bread and butter. In this case, I would recommend marketing to the “bread and butter” public. So you see, you really need to evaluate your industry.
3. Once you’ve determined which are the best customers (the kind you’d like all the others to emulate) and have gotten all information concerning their purchasing habits with you: Find out how they found you, where they live, what they do for a living and even what their level of income is (if it can be tactfully worked into the conversation). It’s good to get this information when the customers are making their purchase because they will be more likely to give it to you. If you keep customer phone numbers you could even do a short survey by phone to find out most of this info.
4. Look for Patterns - When you gather all of the information you may notice that 35% of your best customers are doctors, or 50% of them come from one area of the city. Whatever the pattern is that you notice, take advantage of it. Do specific mailings to a list that fits the same description as your best customers and you will attract more of them. A list company can find you a list that best fits so that you are mailing to those companies or individuals that are most likely to purchase.
Follow these steps and you will be able to increase you Return On Investment (ROI) from all of your marketing programs. And remember, Return On Investment is how much income you are generating from the leads you get in from your direct mail marketing campaign.
Marketing your business will help it grow, marketing your business to the right people can get your business booming. So, tap into your goldmine!
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