Did you know that direct mail recipients
purchase 28% more items and spend 28% more than non-direct mail recipients?1
This is excellent news for marketers. But with increasing pressure on marketing
budgets, you still want to make every direct mail dollar count. Here are three
overlooked ways to boost your mailing results and maximize your investment.
1. Keep addresses current with
public and private address correction sources.
Most mailers know about the National Change
of Address (NCOA) service offered by the U.S. Post Office. However, did you
know that only 60% of actual address changes get filed with the USPS? Or that
NCOA only catches moves filed within the past 18–48 months? By using private
address correction services in conjunction with NCOA, you can find moves not
reported to the USPS and can often correct address changes as far back as 15
years.
2. Get addresses right in the first
place.
It’s a simple principle, but it is too often
overlooked. If you don’t get the address correct on the envelope, the mail
won’t be delivered. 1234 Bay Avenue is not the same as 1234 Bay Street. Use
professional address correction services to ensure that your mailing addresses
are accurate and complete, so your mail pieces arrive as intended.
3. Suppress bad addresses.
Sometimes boosting results isn’t just about
targeting people who are most likely to respond. It is also about not targeting
those who won’t. Suppression services flag records in your list that are highly
unlikely to respond because they have registered for the Direct Marketing
Association’s “do not mail” service, have an address in a prison or extremely
low-income area, or are deceased. In one analysis of five client mailings, for
example, BCC Software saw an average return on investment of 300% by using
deceased suppression alone.2
Don’t leave money on the table. Talk to us
about standard address correction and the private address correction and
suppression services available. You work hard to develop your list. Get the
most out of it!
1 “Mail: Convert Browsers into Online Sales”
(USPS)
2 “Find
the 5 Bottom Line Impacting Items Hiding in Your Data” (BCC Software)
Please give us a call at 440-946-0606Or visit our website here for more information.
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