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  • The Power of Mover Trigger Marketing Campaigns

    Partner Content   January 14, 2025  

    The moving journey is hectic, so trigger campaigns provide consumers with relevant offers while the need for goods and services related to relocating is top of mind. As a direct result, marketers who run trigger campaigns achieve greater return on their marketing investment than those running traditional marketing campaigns.

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  • Quantifying U.S. Marketing Expenditures Across the Top Five Channels

    Money Slides   January 6, 2025  

    Winterberry Group tabulates U.S. marketing expenditures on search, social media, linear TV, online display, and direct marketing. The data further drills down to divide that spending between expenditures made on brand and performance marketing.

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  • Four Tips for Finding Your Most Valuable Direct Mail Audience

    Training Takeaways   January 2, 2025  

    To make direct mail more effective with segmentation, you have to know how to categorize your audience. Finer, more granular audience targeting will focus your message on those who will be the most receptive to it. To achieve just this, consider four tips drawn from the ANA’s Affiliate Training Program, The USPS Advanced Marketing Certificate Program.

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  • Three Advantages of Direct Mail Retargeting Technology

    Training Takeaways   January 2, 2025  

    Direct mail retargeting delivers multiple touchpoint opportunities for customers who have engaged with your brand. This technology provides consistency across touchpoints as customers consider and evaluate decisions while navigating their path to purchase. Adopting this approach offers marketers three key advantages as “front-end” activity triggers valuable responses on the back end of the technology.

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  • Aligning the Customer Journey to Goals: Lead Gen Versus Retention

    Training Takeaways   January 2, 2025  

    The USPS offers examples of how you can tailor your customer journey to either lead generation or retention.

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  • Open Rates by Type of Mail

    Money Slides   January 2, 2025  

    The United States Postal Service (USPS) shares the results of a study that quantify the frequency with which different types of mail are either opened or discarded without a second look. The types of mail covered include catalogs, coupon booklets, and a wide array of different advertising mailers.

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  • How Brands Navigate a Route for Direct Mail Marketing

    B2B   December 4, 2024  

    Despite the dizzying and proliferating number of digital channels available, marketers continue to rely on an old standby to better serve existing customers, land new ones, and generate revenue: direct mail. And while the bulk of marketers are boosting their direct mail investments this year, per a recent study, they need to tread carefully due to a spate of postal rate hikes imposed by the United States Postal Service.

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  • Delivering Performance 2024: Charting the Future of Direct Mail in an Omnichannel World

    Event Recaps   November 20, 2024  

    Despite rising costs and digital alternatives, direct mail remains a vital $37.3 billion marketing channel, with brands investing in innovative approaches to measurement, personalization, and omnichannel integration to drive performance.

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  • How to Keep Phone Contact Compliant with Consent

    Money Slides   November 12, 2024  

    Law firm Troutman Amin breaks down how to maintain compliance with the rules that govern marketers’ contact with consumers on their landlines and cellphones and how to respond when consent for such contact is revoked.

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  • The Frequency with Which Different Age Groups Check Their Mail, Charted

    Money Slides   October 15, 2024  

    The United States Postal Service (USPS) breaks down how often millennials and baby boomers, as well as members of generation X and generation Z check their physical mail.

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  • Innovative Direct Mail Marketing: USPS Strategies for Success and Future Outlook

    Event Recaps   October 10, 2024  

    During a session at an October 2024 ANA Data and Direct Marketing conference, Steve Monteith, chief customer and marketing officer at USPS, discussed the current trends in direct mail marketing that have influenced the media landscape.

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  • Nestle’s La Vie Revolutionized the Packaged Water Category with a Social E-Commerce Campaign

    Smarties Awards   September 30, 2024  

    Nestle’s La Vie created a personalized social e-commerce campaign, leveraging Facebook’s business platform, to create a customized end-to-end consumer journey that ended in a personalized offer.

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  • Cross-Pollinating Marketing Success

    Partner Content   September 10, 2024  

    How can small companies think bigger? And what small business norms can be applied to enterprise-size strategies? The insights gleaned can help both sides adjust their channel approach going forward. The mix they're looking for will help a business of any size stand out more, connect with audiences on a personal level, and nurture deeper engagement.

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  • Fundraising During the Election Season

    Social Impact   August 26, 2024  

    As election season heats up, nonprofits will have to compete with a deluge of political advertising that leads to increased media spending and donor fatigue. While it may be tempting for nonprofits to stop fundraising altogether during such a chaotic period, it's important that they keep their momentum and use targeted messaging to spotlight how their mission makes a real difference in people's lives.

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  • The Secret to Actionable, Attention-Grabbing Campaigns

    Partner Content   August 15, 2024  

    To create eye-catching, memorable campaigns that customers will actually interact with, the savviest marketers are thinking outside the box — moving away from the digital-first playbook in favor of an omnichannel strategy that incorporates both digital and offline efforts.

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  • This Financial Services Company Appealed to Customers Through a Parallel with Football

    B2 Awards   July 17, 2024  

    Sammons Institutional Group promoted itself as an authority on preparing for unforeseen financial disruptions through an analogy with football’s star quarterback Brock Purdy.

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  • Effective Customer Retention: Ask, Learn, Engage

    Event Recaps   July 16, 2024  

    During a July 2024 meeting of the ANA’s Relationship Marketing Committee, Bank of Montreal described how it capitalized on interactive emails and a willingness to explore the sources of customer dissatisfaction to improve retention among its credit card users.

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  • How ZS Created Leads with AI Generated Display Ads on a Budget

    B2 Awards   July 14, 2024  

    With a total budget of $161,255, ZS deployed a set of AI-generated display ads to position itself as the technology brand that health care companies could partner with to create the future of the industry.

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  • Chevron’s Mailer Boosted B2B Leads by Touting the Importance of Oil

    B2 Awards   July 13, 2024  

    Chevron touted the importance of high-quality oil to businesses operating equipment with diesel engines.

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  • How Citibank Is Improving Direct Mail Effectiveness

    Webinar Rewinds   June 26, 2024  

    Direct mail remains a critical channel for the credit card industry to drive results in acquisition, cross-sell, and upsell efforts. In this webinar, Citibank and Intelisent shared how to embrace USPS innovations and big data part as of an overall direct mail effectiveness strategy.

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