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How important is a mailing list for a postcard marketing campaign? Extremely.
Many businesses make the mistake of sending direct mail postcards to a randomly generated list of recipients. Sure, if the postcard is strong enough, it will still generate results. But more than likely, the response won’t be nearly as great as campaign that’s targeted to a specific audience. Nowadays, it’s easier than ever to narrow your mailing list to the people who are mostly likely to respond. And your options go far beyond the standard demographic options, like gender, zip code, and income.
These days, you can create a highly targeted postcard mailing list among a specific list of factors, such as:
- Buying patterns
- Specific items they’ve bought or stores they’ve shopped at
- Types of information they’ve requested
- Websites they visit
- Magazines they’re subscribed to
- How much they spend on specific items
- What kind of job they have
And that’s just the short list.
There are nearly limitless options for reaching your target market with direct mail postcards. Granted, not all postcard marketing campaigns require a highly targeted list. For example, if you’ve just opened a new restaurant, you’ll probably want to send a postcard announcement to everyone in town and surrounding areas too.
But before you launch your next batch of promotional postcards, think hard about who you want to reach. Ask yourself:
- Who is mostly likely to respond to this postcard?
- What buying habits or hobbies would they have?
- What makes them different from people who wouldn’t respond?
The answers to these questions will help you narrow down your list. Just remember to think long and hard about who your target market is. Don’t stop at the questions above. Keep thinking and identifying traits of your audience until there aren’t any left. After all, the more targeted your list, the more response you’ll get. In postcard marketing (and all direct mail), every percentage point matters.
Recommended Books on Quality of Mailing List and Your Postcard Marketing Campaign
- Mailing List Strategies: A Guide to Direct Mail Success
- The Direct Mail Solution
- Direct Mail in the Digital Age
- The Ultimate Postcard Marketing Success Manual: Increase Sales & Boost Branding – All for the Price of a Stamp!
- Easy Postcard Marketing: How To Increase Your Customers and Profits with Postcards
- Million Dollar Mailings
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