Postcard Marketing Information

Monitoring the results of your marketing postcards is certainly crucial to figuring out the measure of accomplishment of your campaign. It is a must in order to make judgements on how to improve the campaign message.

The nice thing is, it is easy. You do not need some sophisticated technology.

All that is needed is a plan of action.  Here are some things to consider for the plan:

• Put someone in charge to be responsible for the running the whole campaign and for compiling all the information.
• Make sure all personel who deal with customers know about the campaign and instruct them to keep track of all customer responses and related sales.
• All response information should be entered into the appropriate system.
• If you have a website, make sure the postcard points the customer to a specific response page which you can count all visits.
• Collect all website visits, all response telephone calls, all store visits, and all related sales.  Divide all these numbers by the total number of postcards sent out to get your response rates. ( for example if you get 500 visits to your website after sending out 10,000 postcards your response rate would be 5%. )
• Have the person in charge create easy to understand reports.  Have all personel involved review the reports and look for ideas for improvement.

Do not be concerned if your first batch of promotional postcards did not turn out with great response rates. Most first campaigns do not.  Utilize what you learned to make it better and try again. This is essential for all types of marketing and advertising, and postcard marketing is no exception.

For most businesses an integrated marketing approach ends up being the best approach to promote their web site business.  This means they should consider all the usual promotion and advertising methods as well as new online methods.  Direct mail is still one of the important methods for promotion, and direct mail with postcards is one of the most effective.

Direct mail postcard marketing is one of the traditional forms of marketing that delivers results. Three good reasons for this are:

(1) it is highly targetable — less money spent on uninterested potential receivers.
(2) it is highly measurable — you can determine which lists work and adjust your list.
(3) it can be very, very cost effective.

Most small businesses cannot afford to consider television, radio or magazine advertising. However, even the smallest business advertising budget can afford a direct mail campaign.  With postcards you are getting the lowest cost for postage and printing.  Also, you can manage your campaign management by only sending to a portion of your total list on a basis you decide from your budget.

Your postcard can make use of color, photos and print to  drive interest in visiting your site. It is best to make your message very simple and targeted. Always keep in mind the purpose of your advertising postcard is to bring traffic to your web site for the sale to be made there.  Think of the postcard as a highway billboard driving interest in what your web site offers.

One of the key ways to separate your online business from your competitors is to promote your online business in ways your competitor has not used.  Take your “use only online promotion blinders off” and try postcard marketing to drive more new traffic to you web site.

Many businesses offer a service for cleaning, reparing, maintenance, landscaping, construction,etc … in which you can visually see the difference before they gave their service and afterwards. With these kind of services a photo show what something looks like before they do their work and then what it looks like after they complete their work can communicate a whole lot more than words to potential customers.

A good example might be an air duct cleaning service.  If you take a photo of the inside of the dirty ducts before they are clean, and then take another photo after they are cleaned, you have an easy to understand testamonial of the benefit offered by the service.

Then print these two photos on the front of a marketing postcard with a catchy heading.  Put details on how to contact your business on the back with a limited time offer to push the reader to take action and you have a highly effective marketing postcard to bring in new customers.

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If you are in a business in which the main benefit you offer can be visually shown with before and after photos, give it a try!

We can help create your custom marketing postcard for you.

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Some statistics are saying that direct mail will fall by 38% in the next five years, but postcards are still giving effective results.

Here is what a recent posting in “The Marketing Forum” blog said:

“Rather than spend a lot of money for complicated direct mailers of the past, many companies are sending out postcards at a relatively inexpensive price. And they are getting some phenomenal results. For example, you could send out a coupon postcard to your targeted mailing list and then also place that coupon on Twitter. For local restaurants, shops, etc. it’s a great, cost-effective idea.”

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Services to design, print, and mail your marketing postcards available at this link

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Marketing is very important for today’s business. There are many techniques followed to attract people towards their product by manufacturers and retailers. If a new product is introduced, the product is well reached to the people only through the marketing. Advertisement is a great tool used by the marketing people. They advertise the product by telling its features and benefits. Marketing is of different types. They are door to door marketing, mail marketing. The mail marketing is of two types. They are post card marketing and direct mail marketing. This means the marketers write of print the features of the product and send to the customers. The extension of the marketing is the market research. In mail marketing, manufacture or retailer market their product by printing the advantages, features and sometimes asking about the opinions of the product after usage. They even gave samples to the public, and indirectly forcing them to use it. If public is impressed by this sample product, they will buy the product repetitively and it increase the sales of the product. The target of the marketing is to increase the sales, and decline the competitors. The door or door survey and online survey are taken to know about the real opinion of the people about the product. The survey can be deployed by self or outsourced to some companies like Nielsen.