{"id":36,"date":"2005-01-18T12:44:00","date_gmt":"2005-01-18T12:44:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/officeondemand.ca\/blog\/?p=25"},"modified":"2009-08-31T12:08:00","modified_gmt":"2009-08-31T17:08:00","slug":"do-you-have-strategies-for-direct-mail","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.marketingforsuccess.com\/blog\/direct-response-marketing\/direct-mail-direct-response-marketing\/do-you-have-strategies-for-direct-mail\/","title":{"rendered":"Do You Have Strategies for Direct Mail?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>&#8220;Do you have strategies for direct mail for the mortgage industry?&#8221; &#8211; Jamie Gould<\/p>\n<p>Direct mail isn&#8217;t a marketing strategy but rather one marketing tactic that can help you implement your marketing strategy. Do you have a written marketing plan that details your marketing strategy?<\/p>\n<p>When you send out your mailing you want people to open it and read it. You want people to quickly decide they&#8217;re interested and you want them to contact you, by the hundreds. Does this happen when you send out mailings? Do you want to improve your response to your mailings?<\/p>\n<p>The first step is to make sure you have a brilliant marketing message, one that gets your prospects&#8217; attention. I&#8217;ve detailed how to write your maketing messages in <strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.marketingforsuccess.com\/marketing-message.html\">15 Second Marketing<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p>and in <strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.marketingforsuccess.com\/networking-manual.html\">Creating Opportunity with Next Step Networking.<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Getting attention is the first step. The next is prompting your prospects to contact you. One of the best ways to do this is to offer a free guide relevant to your products and services that they can&#8217;t live without. It might be &#8220;10 Secrets of Saving Money on Mortgages.&#8221; I&#8217;ve detailed this strategy in <strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.marketingforsuccess.com\/marketing-manual.html\">The 5 Principles of Highly Effective Marketing.<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Direct mail can be a great marketing tool and can help you attract many more qualified prospects, if you know how to use it to get attention, position your firm and sell your services.<\/p>\n<p>&#8211; Charlie Cook<\/p>\n<div class=\"zemanta-pixie\" style=\"margin-top: 10px; height: 15px;\"><a class=\"zemanta-pixie-a\" title=\"Reblog this post [with Zemanta]\" href=\"http:\/\/reblog.zemanta.com\/zemified\/5c188fc4-0156-4be8-87f9-e717ccaeaa1a\/\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"zemanta-pixie-img\" style=\"BORDER-BOTTOM: medium none; BORDER-LEFT: medium none; FLOAT: right; BORDER-TOP: medium none; BORDER-RIGHT: medium none\" src=\"http:\/\/img.zemanta.com\/reblog_e.png?x-id=5c188fc4-0156-4be8-87f9-e717ccaeaa1a\" alt=\"Reblog this post [with Zemanta]\" \/><\/a><span class=\"zem-script more-related more-info pretty-attribution paragraph-reblog\"><script src=\"http:\/\/static.zemanta.com\/readside\/loader.js\" type=\"text\/javascript\"><\/script><\/span><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#8220;Do you have strategies for direct mail for the mortgage industry?&#8221; &#8211; Jamie Gould Direct mail isn&#8217;t a marketing strategy but rather one marketing tactic that can help you implement your marketing strategy. Do you have a written marketing plan that details your marketing strategy? When you send out your mailing you want people to [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[229],"tags":[192,77,381,78],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.marketingforsuccess.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/36"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.marketingforsuccess.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.marketingforsuccess.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.marketingforsuccess.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.marketingforsuccess.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=36"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.marketingforsuccess.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/36\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.marketingforsuccess.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=36"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.marketingforsuccess.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=36"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.marketingforsuccess.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=36"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}