Are you looking to design and print your own business cards? Business cards are easier than ever to develop with sites like Canva or QuantumPostcards’ Design Canvas that have simple design tools anyone can use for free. Even so, it can still be overwhelming to design your own business card if you have never done so before or have little design experience.
As the new year quickly approaches, marketers are wondering how to best engage their audiences in 2019. In analyzing current and projected trends, it’s clear that direct mail marketing will continue to be a force to be reckoned with for marketers that want to stay on top of their game. By 2022, it’s projected that direct mail advertising revenue will equal approximately 10.9 billion U.S. dollars.
Is direct mail still a good marketing strategy in a world that's gone largely digital?
Watch our video to learn more about the benefits of direct mail and how to integrate it with digital marketing strategies for the most successful campaigns.
For many small businesses, the holidays account for a substantial percentage of revenue, and provide a key opportunity for marketing efforts. While most large retailers have a vigorous omnichannel strategy, leading the customer easily from mobile to desktop to storefront, small businesses need not be intimidated -- they, too, can implement these best practices into holiday marketing efforts.
Any marketing postcards campaign, however great, won't live up to its full potential or utilize your dollars effectively without proper budgeting beforehand. There are several costs (many that you may not even think about!) to consider before printing and mailing postcards to your target audience.
"Content is king.” The phrase means that content, or what is expressed through a medium, is the most important element of any online marketing campaign, more important than search engine optimization (SEO), for example, or campaign frequency. That’s not to say that SEO and campaign frequency aren’t important (in fact content works best, and significantly increases reach, when all of these elements are combined;) it just means that all of those things without useful, engaging content will not ultimately achieve the highest possible number of sales, social media engagement, website views, etc.
So, how do you go about creating great content for your next series of marketing postcards? Simple: you tell a story.
There are a lot of reasons why an audience may not have elicited the desired response after receiving your marketing postcard. But when every other element of the direct mail piece is executed flawlessly and there’s still crickets, the culprit is likely a poor call to action. Without a clear next step, your recipients won’t know what to do once they’ve read your mailer -- which often leads to it being thrown in the trash. Sticking to a few simple tips will help you design a great call to action that is better positioned to achieve the results you desire.
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Facebook is highly valued for its ability to deliver hyper-targeted campaigns with the push of a button, making it tempting to singularly focus on social media when reaching a very specific audience is imperative. What some marketers may not realize, however, is that the targeted information gathered from social media campaigns can be utilized for direct mail, too, ensuring your brand is in front of your ideal audience no matter the channel.
Customer relationship management (CRM), or the practice of managing and analyzing a company’s interactions with their customers, is a strategic blend of marketing efforts, sales, customer service and support. Because CRM relies on data, it is often solely associated with digital communications strategies. But using the data gathered from CRM systems is also highly effective for direct mail campaigns as an integrated, one-to-one approach to customer-centric marketing.
