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Direct Mailing: What Are the Benefits of Using Postcards as a Marketing Tool? by Nitesh patel





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There are a lot of marketing strategies out there that a business owner can use. Each has its own advantages and disadvantages. A company should choose a technique that will really help them to boost there sales and would really work best for them. From this article you will learn the details of a direct mail marketing technique using postcards as the primary form of marketing and you will also learn some of the benefits and drawbacks of this kind of approach.

Using postcards in a direct mail marketing campaign is very beneficial since postcards are the most visual compared to the other forms of direct marketing tool. Therefore, it is most likely to be noticed by the person who is going through their mails.

With postcards, you target audience gets to see the picture you want them to look into or the advertisement that you want them to focus or consider about. Since postcards are not put inside an envelope, your special deals or upcoming sale that are printed in big letters and other contents will be most likely read by your customers. With postcards, there is a bigger chance of generating higher response rates and more sales. Avoid using mails enclosed in envelops with words urgent or open immediately because nowadays these things would not really work.
Another advantage of postcard marketing is that you can focus your attention to those clients who are most likely interested in buying your products or availing your services. But before you can do this, you should first have a good mailing list that has all the records of all clients who have a history of buying products in your industry or whom you think are good prospects.

Compared to the other forms of advertising or marketing techniques, postcards have the most chances of being seen since you are really sending to a certain person’s home. You are absolutely aware of the idea that in one way or another, the recipient of the mail will at least give it a small glance. The challenge for merchants is how can they get their clients’ attention and turn that glance into a long stare. This form of advertising is way better compared to putting up posters everywhere. With posters, you are not even sure if somebody has seen them.

Postcard marketing’s success rate is also very easy to track. In determining the success rate, you can just match the number of sales you achieve from the start to the number of people you have sent a postcard. There are only few forms of marketing that can give you this kind of information and postcard marketing is one of them.

Lastly, sending postcards to your prospects does not require much money. Sending a postcard is even cheaper than sending a letter in an envelope. So if you are still new to the business and do not have the capacity to spend a lot of money for your marketing campaign, why not try using postcards. It is more effective and does not cost so much unlike the other forms of marketing.

Off course like other types of marketing strategies, postcard marketing has also its share of drawbacks. One major drawback is time investment because you need to do a lot of research in gathering the right mailing list. You also have to spend a lot of time in setting your postcard marketing strategy especially if you’re doing this for the first time. But if you do things right in the first time then sooner or later you will harvest the fruit of your hard work and you can realize that all the efforts are all worth it.

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