Welcome to Direct Mail California, your online guide to direct mail marketing news, tips, resources, articles and more!


Direct Mail Quote

Direct Marketing Tools The 3 Letter Sequence

Posted: July 30th, 2010 | Author: Postal Systems Direct Mail Marketing | Filed under: Marketing Tips, Uncategorized | Tags: , | No Comments » Let’s say I’m starting up a business as an insurance broker. I’ve purchased a database of two and a half thousand clients. What system or method should I use? Direct mail then follow-up with SMS and then phone call. What I would do if I had a limited amount of people that I was going [...]

17 Ways to Improve Your Direct Mail Offer

Posted: July 29th, 2010 | Author: Postal Systems Direct Mail Marketing | Filed under: Marketing Tips, Uncategorized | Tags: , | No Comments » Simply put, your direct mail offer is the “deal” you promise the recipient. It’s what you promise the reader and what you ask in return. Your offer needs to be specific and clearly state how it benefits the prospect. It includes the product-or for a fundraiser, the organization’s mission or project-the price or asking amount, terms, [...]

5 Things an Awesome Letter Must Have

Posted: July 28th, 2010 | Author: Postal Systems Direct Mail Marketing | Filed under: Marketing Tips, Uncategorized | Tags: , | No Comments » When you develop your direct mail letter, there are five things that it must have to be successful. 1. It must have a clear offer. 2. It must address objections 3. It must have a call to action (ask the client to buy or ask for more info) 4. It must be easy for the customer to respond. 5. It [...]

Tradeshow Displays Making the Most of Your Space

Posted: July 27th, 2010 | Author: Postal Systems Direct Mail Marketing | Filed under: Marketing Tips, Uncategorized | Tags: , | No Comments » When it comes to putting your display rental booth together there are a lot of options out there to make the display booth your own. What kind of booth you opt for will depend on a variety of factors including what kind of space you have available, what product you are showcasing and how many [...]

Getting the Low Down on Top Down Marketing

Posted: July 26th, 2010 | Author: Postal Systems Direct Mail Marketing | Filed under: Marketing Tips, Uncategorized | Tags: , | No Comments » What is that all about? It means working from the top of the company down and it is an awesome way to market. In this article you will learn key elements to make it a success. Now if you are wearing a marketing hat, hold on to it tight and grasp your socks too because I [...]

Effective Direct Mail Marketing Strategy

Posted: July 25th, 2010 | Author: Postal Systems Direct Mail Marketing | Filed under: Marketing Tips, Uncategorized | Tags: , | No Comments » Today most people think about marketing on the internet. While there are many internet strategies, a direct mail marketing strategy may be the one thing that works best for your company. The traditional type of direct marketing strategy has been around for a hundred years. It has also been studied and tested for that long. [...]

Reasons to Use Hit Tradeshow Products

Posted: July 24th, 2010 | Author: Postal Systems Direct Mail Marketing | Filed under: Marketing Tips, Uncategorized | Tags: , | No Comments » If you look at a somewhat “average” list of hit tradeshow products you would notice that the best sellers tend to also be the things that people might end up using the most. For example, small electronics, unusual office supplies, water bottles, and even memory drives and garments tend to be big sellers. They are [...]

The Appeal of Dental Tradeshow Products

Posted: July 23rd, 2010 | Author: Postal Systems Direct Mail Marketing | Filed under: Marketing Tips, Uncategorized | Tags: , | No Comments » If you work in the medical or dental industries you will definitely want to take a look at the most popular dental tradeshow products. Why? Let’s face it; dentists and dental care workers are not the most popular people. In fact, millions of people are actually terrified to make a visit to their provider due [...]

Review: Selling to the C-Suite : What Every Executive Wants You to Know About Successfully Selling to the Top

Posted: July 22nd, 2010 | Author: Postal Systems Direct Mail Marketing | Filed under: Marketing Tips, Uncategorized | Tags: , | No Comments » Buy it now $27.95 The goal of every salesperson: gettingaccess to senior client executives theC-Level decision makers responsiblefor approving top-dollar deals. Selling to theC-Suite is the first book that reveals how toland those career-making sales in the wordsof CEOs themselves! With 60 years of combined experience sellingto corporations around the world, NicholasA.C. Read and Stephen J. [...]

Door to Door Distribution

Posted: July 21st, 2010 | Author: Postal Systems Direct Mail Marketing | Filed under: Marketing Tips, Uncategorized | Tags: , | No Comments » When you opt for a door-to-door strategy for the distribution of your business products, you should have concrete plans of which the distributors will follow. Here are some ideas you should have in mind before they begin. A good marketing strategy will allow the distributors to foresee what they are up against and know what to [...]