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New Ideas, New Friends, and a Bit of Fair Food: IWCO Direct Hosts Steel Partners EH&S Council in MN

Posted September 17, 2019 by Bev Lohs in Announcements

At the end of August, we welcomed members of the Steel Partners Environmental, Health & Safety (EH&S) Council to Minnesota for their week-long annual meeting. The 54 members in attendance represented 35 locations from 11 different Steel Partners companies. Our Chanhassen campus acted as home base to facilitate the communication of best management practices for EH&S […]

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How MSOs Can Master Their Marketing in the Age of Bundles

Posted September 13, 2019 by Michelle Peel in Direct Marketing Trends

With eleven days until the premiere of “This is Us” season four, I realize I’m not alone in my TV fandom. With millions of Americans having personal experiences with the TV they watch, MSOs have a unique opportunity to reach them […]

DRJ Fall 2019: Disaster Recovery Resiliency in an Uncertain World

Posted September 11, 2019 by Michael Henry in Business Continuity and Disaster Recovery

As a long-time member of the Business Continuity/Disaster Recovery (BC/DR) industry, Mail-Gard finds great value and an important sense of community among our BC/DR peers. One of those valuable partnerships is with the team at Disaster Recovery Journal (DRJ), and we have a long history of exhibiting at their biannual conferences […]

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Breaking Down Silos: Building the Business Case for a Dynamic Content Management Solution

Posted September 10, 2019 by David Klempke, PMP in Dynamic Content Management

A recent experience I had at a local coffee shop made me think about how we are all demanding customization in commercial interactions. The person behind me in line walked up to the counter and ordered a triple venti soy no foam latte. I immediately thought, “This is a dynamic content management solution in action” […]

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3 Things to Keep in Mind When Marketing to Gen Z

Posted September 6, 2019 by Ashley Luehmann in Omnichannel Marketing

My generation has a lot of names, including “post-millennials,” “the homeland generation,” and my personal favorite, “the iGeneration.” Whatever you call us, Generation Z is coming of age—and so are our wallets. Gen Z is the generation born from the mid-1990s to the early 2000s […]

Postman delivering mail – A Fall 2019 Postal Update – IWCO Direct

Fall 2019 Could Be a Busy Time for Postal Policy Wonks

Posted September 4, 2019 by Kurt Ruppel in Postal Issues Updates

“Hurry up and wait” has been the theme for those of us engaged with the U.S. Postal Service this summer. While we have moved forward on a few fronts, we continue to wait for resolution on others. Let’s dig into our 2019 postal updates […]

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Reel in Customers with Personalized Direct Mail

Posted August 30, 2019 by Brent Doering in Strategy and Analysis

As this summer was coming to a close, my daughter and I recently decided to hit the water for some fishing. As I watched her peer into the tackle box and inspect all of the various lures she asked, “What kind of fish are we going to try to catch, Dad?” After I replied, “try…?!” […]

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There’s Nothing Like a Good, Old-Fashioned Whiteboard for Coming Up with Creative Marketing Ideas

Posted August 28, 2019 by Mike Dietz in Creative

Hands down, one of the coolest features in IWCO Direct’s Creative Services offices are our whiteboard walls. When we were redesigning some of our office space a few years ago, the Creative Services team got the opportunity to provide input into what we wanted and what would make the workspace more efficient [...]

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What Corporate Training Looks Like at IWCO Direct

Posted August 27, 2019 by Diana Hvistendahl, PMP in Announcements

As you may have followed in SpeakingDIRECT, we’ve been tracking IWCO Direct’s progress with new tools and practices for learning, training, and professional development, along with how it helps us deliver better marketing. We’ve always used standard corporate training resources (like SOPs, process diagrams, and online conferencing) that make our work better by making our […]

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SteelGrow Mentorship Enriches Both Mentor and Mentee

Posted August 23, 2019 by John Sobieck in Announcements

Mentoring is a core value at IWCO Direct. In a previous blog about our mentoring efforts, we highlighted our involvement with SteelGrow, an initiative of the Steel Partners family of companies that encourages developing new talent from within the organization. We have been working side-by-side [...]

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