Mailing to the Masses in Targeted Areas

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When you are talking about your business, it all comes down to lead generation and branding. One way to reach out and touch your prospects is the good ol’ US Postal Service. But beware…mass mailings can be expensive and ineffective if you don’t plan right. It’s all about targeting. That is the key in branding your business.

Small companies with small budgets actually have an advantage for once. You see, the smaller the budget, the more targeted you can be.

If you own a local business, there’s an entire city to mail to, but mail outs are expensive to just mail everyone. The magic is in the targeting.

How do you target the people who most likely to need YOUR product? The more filters you can come up with, the more targeted your mailing will be. For example, if your product is for homeowners, you can eliminate everyone that doesn’t own a home. If your target prospect owns a home and is over 50 years old, you have yet another filter you can apply when trying to hone down the number of prospects you’re attempting to reach.

Here’s the trick; don’t try to figure all this out yourself. You don’t have to do this alone. Call regional or national mass mailing houses to help you with your targeting. Chances are, these companies have already done this for someone else that does exactly what you do, in another part of the country.

These companies are pros and can tell you what filters you need to use, what postcard or mailing piece has been successful for others, and the rate of success you can expect based on the data from thousands of case studies…

Check out one of my favorites…1000houses.com/postcard and listen to the episode on“The Price of Business”  radio show where we discuss the art of mass mailings.

You can also hear more about this subject here on my podcast