Like Postcard Marketing, Target Marketing with Letters is quite possibly a most overlooked strategies out
there.
Marketing with Letters has a few advantages and a few disadvantages over Postcard Marketing:
Advantages
- Great for marketing which requires from a single page to multiple pages of sales information
- Nearly unlimited envelope designs possible from - from single color to full color
- Tag line on envelope should pique the recipient's interest sufficiently to open the envelope
- Personalization: variable data can be inserted anywhere in the letter allowing total personalization
Now, let's look at the advantages to Postcard Marketing . . . Why Marketing with Postcards Works!
- Cost-efficient - Marketing with postcards biggest selling point is the cost to produce.
- Quick turnaround time - Once a postcard is finished, it can be sent out right away - You'll know within
days if the postcard is getting the results you want.
- Postcards almost always get read - All the information is conveyed right there in an "open" format. It's
near impossible for a recipient to throw out a postcard without curiously glancing at it!
- Markets can be efficiently targeted - Using key mailing lists will ensure that only those who have a
chance of being interested will get your postcard.
- Leave competitors in the dark - Unlike mass media, marketing with postcards is very personal. What
you're selling will be between you and your prospects only, and competitors will have a harder time
trying to copy your ideas, or even see them.
- Easy to create - Creating a postcard design from scratch is also an option for the creatively inclined