Direct Marketing News, Tips & Trends Our blog delivers info on the latest direct marketing trends, omnichannel marketing strategies, creative marketing ideas, direct mail marketing tips, postal issues, and more. Ease and Simplicity Earn Top Marks in Student Loan Marketing info Posted July 10, 2019 by Michelle Peel in Direct Marketing Trends It is the time of year when high school grads will need to think about financing their college education, and recent college grads may also be looking for consolidation or refinancing offers. For education lenders, that means it’s a critical time to get their student loan marketing right to help borrowers navigate some tough challenges. […] + Read More Play by the 3:33 Rule for Direct Mail Success info Posted July 2, 2019 by Marcus Johnson in Strategy and Analysis You just launched a big direct mail acquisition campaign. Close to a million pieces are fanning out to carefully segmented audiences in areas where your research indicates high concentrations of verified prospects. Will it be a hit or a miss? Grab a stopwatch (or your mobile phone with its many timing apps) and let’s consider. […] + Read More A Mid-Year Look at the Postal News and Issues We are Tracking info Posted June 28, 2019 by Kurt Ruppel in Postal Issues Updates June was a popular month for postal meetings. It started with the Association for Postal Commerce’s (PostCom) Study Day review of postal policy, followed by the Mailers Technical Advisory Committee (MTAC) spring meeting, during which members of the mailing industry discussed issues of concern with USPS executives, and wrapped up with the Idealliance Postal Operations & Technologies Council (POTC) (hosted by IWCO Direct), which addressed the operational side of industry/USPS interactions [...] + Read More APTech’s PRINT Innovation Exchange Shares How Print Can Engage the “Bi-Literate Brain” info Posted June 26, 2019 by Debora Haskel in Direct Marketing Trends When Julie Shaffer from APTech invited me on April 1 via LinkedIn to speak at the PRINT Innovation Exchange, I thought it might be an April Fool’s joke. She said it was my post on CCPA and taxing of professional services that caused her to reach out [...] + Read More Idealliance’s G7 Expert & Professional Training Returns to IWCO Direct info Posted June 25, 2019 by Mike Todryk in Announcements In a little over a month, IWCO Direct will once again host Idealliance’s G7 Expert & Professional training at our Chanhassen facilities. When we hosted the event in May of last year it sold out in almost record time, and the feedback Idealliance received from attendees was excellent. Even the lead instructor, Don Hutcheson, made a point to tell us, “I have been doing this for 12 years, and this was by far the best, most professional facility we have ever trained at.” [...] + Read More Hey! Stop Using So Many Exclamation Points in Your Marketing Copy! info Posted June 21, 2019 by Ashley Leone in Creative Hey! Exclamation points are used in marketing copy writing a lot! Some might say too much! I agree! Cringeworthy, isn’t it? If readers can tell that too many exclamation points creates poor writing, why don’t we recognize it as writers? Probably because exclamation points can be effective [...] + Read More How IWCO Direct Sizes Up New Direct Marketing Technologies info Posted June 19, 2019 by Matt Shanahan in Direct Mail Marketing As IWCO Direct monitors and evaluates the landscape for new direct marketing technology developments, we are continually asking ourselves, “Will this technology improve our workflow and how will it provide value for our clients?” There are a number of factors we look at to determine the value a new technology can deliver for our clients [...] + Read More To Achieve Email Best Practices, Look No Further than Direct Mail info Posted June 18, 2019 by Alan Sherman in Strategy and Analysis As a direct and digital marketing strategist, I frequently get asked questions about the relationship between direct mail and email best practices. Questions about email creative and frequency pop-up, particularly due to email’s low cost to send. How much email is too much? That answer varies by business and product, and there’s no one good […] + Read More We’re Not Your Father’s Direct Marketing Agency info Posted June 14, 2019 by Tom Hexamer in Strategy and Analysis Happy Father’s Day to all of the dads out there. I’m so grateful for all of the things my dad taught me over the years, and I’m hopeful I’ve been able to pass some of it on to my boys. (They’ve certainly picked up some of my bad habits.) It’s appropriate to be writing this […] + Read More Why Nordstrom and J. Jill’s Direct Mail Mistake Cost Them Millions info Posted June 12, 2019 by Ashley Luehmann in Direct Mail Tips A very unexpected article drew me out of my usual morning email-checking haze today. My supervisor Debora Haskel had forwarded me an “interesting read” from MindFire, highlighting a drop in sales for clothing retailer J. Jill. The headline read “Retailer J. Jill learned the Hard Way Why Direct Mail is Still Relevant,” and the smell of scandal perked me up more than the cup of coffee I was holding [...] + Read More Pages: First Page123456789101112131415161718192021222324252627282930313233343536373839404142434445464748495051525354555657585960616263646566676869707172737475767778798081828384858687888990919293949596979899100101102103104105106107108109110111112113114115116117118Last PageLoad More Articles
Ease and Simplicity Earn Top Marks in Student Loan Marketing info Posted July 10, 2019 by Michelle Peel in Direct Marketing Trends It is the time of year when high school grads will need to think about financing their college education, and recent college grads may also be looking for consolidation or refinancing offers. For education lenders, that means it’s a critical time to get their student loan marketing right to help borrowers navigate some tough challenges. […] + Read More
Play by the 3:33 Rule for Direct Mail Success info Posted July 2, 2019 by Marcus Johnson in Strategy and Analysis You just launched a big direct mail acquisition campaign. Close to a million pieces are fanning out to carefully segmented audiences in areas where your research indicates high concentrations of verified prospects. Will it be a hit or a miss? Grab a stopwatch (or your mobile phone with its many timing apps) and let’s consider. […] + Read More
A Mid-Year Look at the Postal News and Issues We are Tracking info Posted June 28, 2019 by Kurt Ruppel in Postal Issues Updates June was a popular month for postal meetings. It started with the Association for Postal Commerce’s (PostCom) Study Day review of postal policy, followed by the Mailers Technical Advisory Committee (MTAC) spring meeting, during which members of the mailing industry discussed issues of concern with USPS executives, and wrapped up with the Idealliance Postal Operations & Technologies Council (POTC) (hosted by IWCO Direct), which addressed the operational side of industry/USPS interactions [...] + Read More
APTech’s PRINT Innovation Exchange Shares How Print Can Engage the “Bi-Literate Brain” info Posted June 26, 2019 by Debora Haskel in Direct Marketing Trends When Julie Shaffer from APTech invited me on April 1 via LinkedIn to speak at the PRINT Innovation Exchange, I thought it might be an April Fool’s joke. She said it was my post on CCPA and taxing of professional services that caused her to reach out [...] + Read More
Idealliance’s G7 Expert & Professional Training Returns to IWCO Direct info Posted June 25, 2019 by Mike Todryk in Announcements In a little over a month, IWCO Direct will once again host Idealliance’s G7 Expert & Professional training at our Chanhassen facilities. When we hosted the event in May of last year it sold out in almost record time, and the feedback Idealliance received from attendees was excellent. Even the lead instructor, Don Hutcheson, made a point to tell us, “I have been doing this for 12 years, and this was by far the best, most professional facility we have ever trained at.” [...] + Read More
Hey! Stop Using So Many Exclamation Points in Your Marketing Copy! info Posted June 21, 2019 by Ashley Leone in Creative Hey! Exclamation points are used in marketing copy writing a lot! Some might say too much! I agree! Cringeworthy, isn’t it? If readers can tell that too many exclamation points creates poor writing, why don’t we recognize it as writers? Probably because exclamation points can be effective [...] + Read More
How IWCO Direct Sizes Up New Direct Marketing Technologies info Posted June 19, 2019 by Matt Shanahan in Direct Mail Marketing As IWCO Direct monitors and evaluates the landscape for new direct marketing technology developments, we are continually asking ourselves, “Will this technology improve our workflow and how will it provide value for our clients?” There are a number of factors we look at to determine the value a new technology can deliver for our clients [...] + Read More
To Achieve Email Best Practices, Look No Further than Direct Mail info Posted June 18, 2019 by Alan Sherman in Strategy and Analysis As a direct and digital marketing strategist, I frequently get asked questions about the relationship between direct mail and email best practices. Questions about email creative and frequency pop-up, particularly due to email’s low cost to send. How much email is too much? That answer varies by business and product, and there’s no one good […] + Read More
We’re Not Your Father’s Direct Marketing Agency info Posted June 14, 2019 by Tom Hexamer in Strategy and Analysis Happy Father’s Day to all of the dads out there. I’m so grateful for all of the things my dad taught me over the years, and I’m hopeful I’ve been able to pass some of it on to my boys. (They’ve certainly picked up some of my bad habits.) It’s appropriate to be writing this […] + Read More
Why Nordstrom and J. Jill’s Direct Mail Mistake Cost Them Millions info Posted June 12, 2019 by Ashley Luehmann in Direct Mail Tips A very unexpected article drew me out of my usual morning email-checking haze today. My supervisor Debora Haskel had forwarded me an “interesting read” from MindFire, highlighting a drop in sales for clothing retailer J. Jill. The headline read “Retailer J. Jill learned the Hard Way Why Direct Mail is Still Relevant,” and the smell of scandal perked me up more than the cup of coffee I was holding [...] + Read More