Postcard Marketing Information

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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.

Postcard advertising, unlike advertising in mass media such as radio or television, allows you to easily control and fit in a budget because you can control the number of pieces you send out on campaigns.

Not only do you know who received the mailing and how much each piece sent cost, you can also track how many responses came back. This information makes it easy to calculate the return on investment for your campaigns.

Think of postcard advertising as a way to send great miniature billboard ads.  Catch their attention with the billboard design on the front with the purpose of getting the reader to read more on the back.

For most postcard ads the purpose should not be to make a sale.  The purpose should be to raise interest for the customer to want to learn more about what is being offered.  Therefore, use postcard advertising to bring customer to make contact with your business.  That contact can be by phone, email, visiting your web site, visiting our physical business location.  Your call to action should lead the customer to make contact.  Then you can make the sale.

Think about reasons why customers do business with you.  Then select the one most important reason.  Highlight that reason on your card design and wording.  Then make an offer so they which tells the customer what is in it for them if they will make contact.  Then tell them how to make contact.

We are ready to help you with all this at www.SedonaDPS.com

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