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Casual Articles - B2B Direct Mail Lead Generation Success Needs Planning, Testing, Measuring
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After all, the telephone, not the letter, is the number one tactic to generate leads according to the Direct Marketing Association's 2005 Response Rate Report.
Your firm sounds like it is content to do business in your city only. That’s why they rely on “networking, community involvement - chari
When it comes to personality profiling, the human development industry has countless tests and assessments from which to choose. These instruments may differ greatly on the surface - in the number and names of the archetypes each model advocates and the method through which a person's type is determined. But at their core, they are all attempting to accomplish the same objective: divide humanity into a manageable number of types and describe each type as a set of distinct and demonstrable characteristics. These "psychometric" instruments are designed to "measure the minds of respondents
Is direct mail useless at helping direct mail businesses generate leads?
That’s the question I was asked last week by a reader of Alan Sharpe’s B2B Direct Mail Tactics newsletter. Here is her unusual challenge, and my response.
“My biggest challenge in generating leads from direct mail is to convince our marketing people that direct mail should be used. This is a completely ironic situation given that we are a DIRECT MAIL HOUSE. Yes, that’s right. I’ve been told that ‘direct mail is not good for our business.’“Apparently, direct mail was tried once long ago and had a bad response rate. Our other lead generation methods include sales outreach activities (prospecting, networking, etc.) and community involvement - charities, boards, councils, etc. Our word of mouth reputation is excellent - we've been in business for 18 years, our turnaround time is excellent, our customer service people are top notch, our team really knows their stuff . . . . However, it seems to me that a larger outreach should be done as well . . . am I barking up the wrong tree here?”
Myth #1: Direct mail doesn’t work for us
The only way to convince management to use direct mail over the long term to generate sales leads is to prove that direct mail either outperforms other methods or increases the effectiveness of other methods. You can only do this through testing and measuring results.
After all, the telephone, not the letter, is the number one tactic to generate leads according to the Direct Marketing Association's 2005 Response Rate Report.
Your firm sounds like it is content to do business in your city only. That’s why they rely on “networking, community involvement - charit
Are you sitting at your desk dreamily imagining yourself on a South Seas vacation? Or maybe a rollicking holiday with the family? Or maybe you’d prefer to stay home and watch some DVDs.Wanting to take some time off shouldn’t make you feel guilty. In fact, in her new book, “Time Off for Good Behavior,” Mary Lou Quinlan writes that seven out of 10 people fantasize about leaving work for a few months.What’s more, she reports that taking a break can help you feel less burned out. It can help you organize your life goals. Most people don’t realize that taking time off--guilt fr
“Apparently, direct mail was tried once long ago and had a bad response rate. Our other lead generation methods include sales outreach activities (prospecting, networking, etc.) and community involvement - charities, boards, councils, etc. Our word of mouth reputation is excellent - we've been in business for 18 years, our turnaround time is excellent, our customer service people are top notch, our team really knows their stuff . . . . However, it seems to me that a larger outreach should be done as well . . . am I barking up the wrong tree here?”
Myth #1: Direct mail doesn’t work for us
The only way to convince management to use direct mail over the long term to generate sales leads is to prove that direct mail either outperforms other methods or increases the effectiveness of other methods. You can only do this through testing and measuring results.
After all, the telephone, not the letter, is the number one tactic to generate leads according to the Direct Marketing Association's 2005 Response Rate Report.
Your firm sounds like it is content to do business in your city only. That’s why they rely on “networking, community involvement - chari
I’m sure you’ve heard every “rags to riches” story out there and of course some are a little more believable than others. But, the best stories are those that actually show proven results and exactly how to go about obtaining them. Most of the time author’s don’t give this information because the secret to their money making methods lies within the money making package itself. The real mystery behind their millions is having you pay for a web package that teaches you how to promote the “free” website provided in the package. Most of the time the website is just a landing page that leads peo
Myth #1: Direct mail doesn’t work for us
The only way to convince management to use direct mail over the long term to generate sales leads is to prove that direct mail either outperforms other methods or increases the effectiveness of other methods. You can only do this through testing and measuring results.
After all, the telephone, not the letter, is the number one tactic to generate leads according to the Direct Marketing Association's 2005 Response Rate Report.
Your firm sounds like it is content to do business in your city only. That’s why they rely on “networking, community involvement - chari
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Myth #1: Direct mail doesn’t work for us
The only way to convince management to use direct mail over the long term to generate sales leads is to prove that direct mail either outperforms other methods or increases the effectiveness of other methods. You can only do this through testing and measuring results.
After all, the telephone, not the letter, is the number one tactic to generate leads according to the Direct Marketing Association's 2005 Response Rate Report.
Your firm sounds like it is content to do business in your city only. That’s why they rely on “networking, community involvement - chari
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After all, the telephone, not the letter, is the number one tactic to generate leads according to the Direct Marketing Association's 2005 Response Rate Report.
Your firm sounds like it is content to do business in your city only. That’s why they rely on “networking, community involvement - charities, boards, councils, etc.” These methods of meeting prospective clients are not sustainable nationally or even regionally. They are too expensive.
Unless your management wants to grow the business outside of your city, or grow the business in an aggressive way in your city, you may have a hard time convincing them to try DM. This is especially true if your city is small, since your prospect pool is so limited.
Myth #2: We tried it once and it didn’t work
You say, “Apparently, direct mail was tried once long ago and had a bad response rate.” Business-to- business lead generation using direct mail is a program, not a campaign. It consists of a plan, a year-long series of mailings, and a way of testing methods and measuring results. I would suggest that if you have not tried direct mail consistently for at least a couple of years, testing different packages against each other, testing DM against your other lead generation methods, and measuring your results to see which method is most cost-effective, you have abandoned direct mail prematurely.
Myth #3: Direct mail delivers poor response rates
You say, “Apparently, direct mail was tried once long ago and had a bad response rate.” Direct mail response rates are misleading if you read them incorrectly. Your response rate only tells you part of what you need to know. It tells you the percentage of people on your list who
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