Category Archives: Optin Email

Direct marketing: Reaching the seasonal customer

Your direct mail offer is compelling and your lists target the ideal audience. In short, you’ve taken into consideration the major factors in your control when it comes to increasing response to your campaign. But what about that big factor … Continue reading

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Email marketing lists: Think small, get focused

A new email marketing study from ExactTarget (free online registration required) finds that smaller lists enjoy the highest open and click-through rates. The study also reinforces earlier findings that Friday is the best day for email opens (and a pretty … Continue reading

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New media: Challenging direct marketers to think “outside of the mailbox”

Recognize that fellow in the airport waiting area, pulling out a PDA to check web-based email and an RSS newsreader? Does the woman listening to the videocast of a celebrity chef on her iPod look familiar? Take a good look. … Continue reading

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Take the worry out of email marketing with good opt-in lists

There are enough elements in a email marketing campaign to keep you on your toes without additional concerns over the quality of your mailing list. The federal CAN-SPAM Act (and some state regulations) governing B2B and B2C email marketing can … Continue reading

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Opt-in email lists — when prospects are happy to see you

Opt-in email lists are incredibly powerful tools for direct mail marketing. Consider it: These are lists of people who have self-selected and said they want to hear about your type of product or service. When using opt-in email lists, the … Continue reading

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The surprising power of compiled lists for direct mail

When you look beyond your organization’s own mailing lists for direct marketing, you will find that there are significant differences between subscriber lists and compiled lists. Subscriber lists consist of data records of people who subscribe to a particular publication … Continue reading

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Enhancing in-house lists using appends

Chances are, you’re already an expert at slicing and dicing your in-house mailing lists to get at particular subgroups for specific direct mail campaigns. You can narrow down a list by ZIP code, focus a subscriber list by selecting for … Continue reading

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Power up your campaign with custom mailing lists

Looking for better business mailing lists? Chances are, you already have access to them. They just need some fine-tuning to get them into top form for your specific needs. Working with a direct mail list expert like Marigold, you can … Continue reading

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Direct Mail Campaigns: If You’re Not Testing, You’re Not Growing

New state laws, new federal regulations, new competition, new product bundles — the list of changes in the marketplace goes on and on. Every day there are changes that affect the audiences you’re targeting (or should be targeting). To keep … Continue reading

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The Magic of Direct Marketing Frequency

The magic moment in direct marketing is when your message arrives at exactly the moment the customer decides they want to find out about — or buy — your product or service. Of course, at your end, this isn’t really … Continue reading

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