Posts Tagged ‘Mailing List Data’

Direct email marketing is now affordable

August 12th, 2009

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 to make push millions of impressions to both a targeted geographic market, as well as a targeted demographic or behavioral interest category.

Multiple Deployment Program – 3 Plus 1 Package
BB Direct offers many a multiple email deployment package to include broadcasting to the same audience 3 times, then once more to those who previously clicked through to a site.

The first deployment tests the same email HTML with 4 different subject lines.  This signals the mailer to mail again with the top two best subject lines for the second deployment.  The third deployment tests the best of the top two for the deployment.

The third deployment is a modified email HTML.  It’s sent to all previous click-thru’s as a last attempt at visitor conversion.  BB Direct offers the above campaign test for $3,500 for up to 250,000 targeted email impressions.  That’s 750,000 impressions plus another revisit deployment for maximum exposure.

All campaigns come with open click-thru reporting to better understand how the campaign is performing over time.  If you’d like to learn more how BB Direct can help you with your next email campaign, please email us at info@bbdirect.com or call us toll-free at 866-501-6273.

Specialty Mailing Lists

December 9th, 2008

Most mailing list brokers label mailing list databases that are not compiled as “special”.  The database tends to increase in value when begin labeled as such.  But the fact is, most mailing list brokers do not fully appreciate the source of one database source or another.  They tend to focus on the selects and pricing and maybe how the coverage is in their prospective direct mail marketer’s mail territory.  Ultimately, many a mail budget is spent testing a mailing list based on misinformation.

The importance working with an experienced mailing list broker cannot be overly emphasized.  You can never ask too many questions on how a potential mailing list has been compiled, when it was created, and when you are told of the update schedule, what exactly do they mean by update.  Specialty mailing lists are those more or less static databases of mailing addresses that more used by one vertical mail market.  Because of their specialized nature, they are limited to the types of businesses that would possibility test the file on their direct mail campaign.  Therefore, there is a finite number of mailers, and a limited revenue potential for this “special” database.  And the more “specialized” the database, the less total records available in any given market further making reducing the total potential value of such a list.  So for the above reasons, you’ll typically find a hefty price tag for such a list, and perhaps a larger error rate for inaccurate data.  Specialty mailing list data is “special” because for all its short comings, the cost to continually produce such a product is still justified.