Marketing Activities that Bear Fruit in the Current Environment

When consumers tighten their belts, it’s time to get even more serious about marketing. Why? Because the investments you make now could pay big dividends, not just in the immediate term, but down the road. Here are three ways you should be investing in your marketing...

5 Steps to Customer Loyalty

What does it take to create customer loyalty, the kind of commitment that makes customers stick with you, even when your competitors become more aggressive, and price competition intensifies? Here are some tips from the experts. 1. Profile your customers. Customers...

Informed Delivery: A New Tool for Marketers

Do you take advantage of the United States Postal Service’s Informed Delivery service? If not, what are you waiting for? What is Informed Delivery? Informed Delivery is a free service offered by the USPS. Consumers sign up, and every morning they receive an email with...

Re-energize Your Mail with These Ideas

Is your target audience tuning out your mailings because you’re sending the same campaign over and over?  Maybe it’s time to mix things up. Here are five ideas to get people responding to your direct mailings again. 1. Change your offer. Your offers can get stale...

Marketers Learn from Magazines & Newspapers

Digital marketing channels have an important place in the media mix, but as marketers have learned, ubiquity of presence doesn’t necessarily translate into greater profitability or effectiveness. Recently, an article in USA Today reinforced this conclusion. It...