Direct Mail Design Blog Tag When it Comes to Response, Cookie-Cutter Direct Mail Templates Don’t Cut It info Posted November 20, 2019 by Mike Dietz in Creative Not too long ago, a new client asked us suggestions to make their programs stronger. They scanned a bunch of mail samples we had on the table and leaned back in their chair, asking, “So, what templates do you suggest?” Our answer? “None.” + Read More Give Your Direct Mail Marketing a Lift with Promotional Cards info Posted November 13, 2019 by Marcus Johnson in Creative You know from our reporting on direct mail response rates that direct mail works better than other channels for getting response. That doesn’t mean there aren’t ways to improve it even further. Today’s topic: using cards to captivate your audience … + Read More There’s Nothing Like a Good, Old-Fashioned Whiteboard for Coming Up with Creative Marketing Ideas info 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 [...] + Read More Reading vs. Scanning: Sidebars Can Engage Any Kind of Mail Recipient info Posted August 20, 2019 by Marcus Johnson in Strategy and Analysis Are you a reader or a scanner? The world is full of both. That matters to those of us who include direct mail and direct response advertising as part of our marketing mix. If we don’t create direct mail designs that account for both of those information intake preferences, we risk losing a big chunk of our audience and their potential to respond. + Read More What Shopping for a Wedding Dress and Choosing Direct Mail Formats Have in Common info Posted July 16, 2019 by Mike Dietz in Creative We’ve talked a lot in the past about finding the right tone and format for your direct marketing message—for instance, keeping financial offers in official formats like a #10 envelope, and entertainment offers in promotional layouts with brighter colors and graphics. What we don’t often talk about is the fact that we often present a […] + 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 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 How to Avoid Four Common Direct Mail Design Mistakes info Posted June 4, 2019 by Mike Dietz in Creative You know when you’re riffling through your mail and you find a direct mail piece that is down-right painful? Where you see it and think to yourself, “Who on Earth thought this was a good idea?” and then toss it into a pile, never to be seen again? I come across a lot of direct mail design mistakes [...] + Read More The Outer Envelope is Key to Getting Your Direct Mail Opened info Posted May 21, 2019 by Marcus Johnson in Direct Mail Tips Fair or not, your audience is always going to judge your direct mail by its outer envelope. Their three-second assessment of your outer envelope (part of the 3:33 rule of direct mail—a topic in itself) will make or break your mailing. If they’re not moved to open the envelope, you don’t get to talk to them [...] + Read More 5 Questions a Designer Asks About Direct Mail Formats info Posted March 6, 2019 by Mike Dietz in Creative Those who have ever designed direct mail before—or even those who pay attention to what’s in their mailbox—know there are plenty of direct mail format options out there. Self-mailers, #10 envelopes, snap-packs, monarch-sized pieces… the list goes on and on. Likewise, there are a lot of factors in choosing a direct mail format for your […] + Read More Pages: First Page123456789101112Last PageLoad More Articles
When it Comes to Response, Cookie-Cutter Direct Mail Templates Don’t Cut It info Posted November 20, 2019 by Mike Dietz in Creative Not too long ago, a new client asked us suggestions to make their programs stronger. They scanned a bunch of mail samples we had on the table and leaned back in their chair, asking, “So, what templates do you suggest?” Our answer? “None.” + Read More
Give Your Direct Mail Marketing a Lift with Promotional Cards info Posted November 13, 2019 by Marcus Johnson in Creative You know from our reporting on direct mail response rates that direct mail works better than other channels for getting response. That doesn’t mean there aren’t ways to improve it even further. Today’s topic: using cards to captivate your audience … + Read More
There’s Nothing Like a Good, Old-Fashioned Whiteboard for Coming Up with Creative Marketing Ideas info 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 [...] + Read More
Reading vs. Scanning: Sidebars Can Engage Any Kind of Mail Recipient info Posted August 20, 2019 by Marcus Johnson in Strategy and Analysis Are you a reader or a scanner? The world is full of both. That matters to those of us who include direct mail and direct response advertising as part of our marketing mix. If we don’t create direct mail designs that account for both of those information intake preferences, we risk losing a big chunk of our audience and their potential to respond. + Read More
What Shopping for a Wedding Dress and Choosing Direct Mail Formats Have in Common info Posted July 16, 2019 by Mike Dietz in Creative We’ve talked a lot in the past about finding the right tone and format for your direct marketing message—for instance, keeping financial offers in official formats like a #10 envelope, and entertainment offers in promotional layouts with brighter colors and graphics. What we don’t often talk about is the fact that we often present a […] + 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
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
How to Avoid Four Common Direct Mail Design Mistakes info Posted June 4, 2019 by Mike Dietz in Creative You know when you’re riffling through your mail and you find a direct mail piece that is down-right painful? Where you see it and think to yourself, “Who on Earth thought this was a good idea?” and then toss it into a pile, never to be seen again? I come across a lot of direct mail design mistakes [...] + Read More
The Outer Envelope is Key to Getting Your Direct Mail Opened info Posted May 21, 2019 by Marcus Johnson in Direct Mail Tips Fair or not, your audience is always going to judge your direct mail by its outer envelope. Their three-second assessment of your outer envelope (part of the 3:33 rule of direct mail—a topic in itself) will make or break your mailing. If they’re not moved to open the envelope, you don’t get to talk to them [...] + Read More
5 Questions a Designer Asks About Direct Mail Formats info Posted March 6, 2019 by Mike Dietz in Creative Those who have ever designed direct mail before—or even those who pay attention to what’s in their mailbox—know there are plenty of direct mail format options out there. Self-mailers, #10 envelopes, snap-packs, monarch-sized pieces… the list goes on and on. Likewise, there are a lot of factors in choosing a direct mail format for your […] + Read More
