Website Visit Increase

Brian Berg/BB Direct – brianberg@bbdirect.com

I recently received 16 visits to our website from one telemarketing call.  Here’s what happened.

First, BB Direct uses Live Person as our chat tool on www.bbdirect.com, our primary corporate website.  With this tool, we’re not only able to chat with visitors on our site, but the service also allows us to view who visits our site, how they found us, how much time they spend on what pages they visit and so on.  The details of who the visitors are are sketchy at best, i.e., ip a...

Target Marketing

Many businesses mailing for the time neglect to make a strong and relevant offer.  They invest heavily in the creative design, print, mail and mailing list only to conclude that direct marketing doesn’t work for them.  Outside of targeted mailing list, the campaign strategy likely lacked an offer strong enough to generate measurable response.

Whether it be a postal direct mail or email campaign, your message must be interesting enough to catch the eye of your audience.  Without these key ingredients, you’re likely to conclude that direct marketing doesn’t work.

Real Life Example

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Like any direct mail marketing effort, email makes an impression.  For most successful digital marketing campaigns, it’s not the sheer number of impressions you make but it’s the message relevancy.  Just as important is it to targeting the right audience is communicating the right message.  Your message should tell a story, not a repeat the image or sound bite over and over.  This relationship building between how many times you can broadcast your message before it is ignored is sometimes referred to as the signal-to-noise ratio.  The most effective repetition tells the prospects something of meaningful value, i.e., why they might consider your product or service, how your business differentiates itself from your competitor, and considerations one should make when shoppin...

Gone are the days of high cost email data acquisition.  With email aggregators in full force, the sheer quantity and targetability of email deployment has sky rocketed while the cost for effective deployment has plummeted.  What’s more, the effectiveness of email advertisement continues to improve.

Email Deployment Example
Let’s take a look at a typical scenario with a direct email campaign.  A medium sized retail specialty store wants to reach out to the local community.  Unlike others forms of marketing, an email broadcast can reach people on the cheap and collect names of potential customers from each which to further communicate your messages.  It wasn’t too long ago when email data wasn’t selectable by geography.  Now we have the ability...