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Direct Response Marketing

Direct Response Marketing is founded on the principal that individual consumers behave in unique ways to satisfy their own needs. By appealing to these segmented needs, the marketer forms a direct line of communication and maximizes the chance of a successful marketing campaign. The successful marketer understands this concept as well as the importance of knowing who their best customers are, how they behave, and which ones have the greatest growth potential.

Key is the ability to retain those customers who deliver the most profit today, and grow those with the greatest future potential. Effective Direct Response Marketing utilizes 3 main tools to help achieve this goal: proper list selection, enticing and appropriate offer and effective creative design.

By far, the most important ingredient to a successful direct response marketing campaign is the list. Your list can be comprised of your house list, and outside lists from industry partners, and occasionally is run against a demographics list. Also, it’s very important to be sure your addresses are current.

Second in importance is the offer. Be sure to create a compelling time-sensitive offer with valuable premiums, and a prominent call-to-action. Offers should be tailored to your audience, i.e., the list segment you’re mailing.

Finally design should direct your reader to the offer and call to action. Copy should be laden with benefits; images of the product in use should be apparent and an attempt should be made to make an emotional connection between your product and the reader.

Test early and test often. The beauty of direct response marketing is that it is a science. Past consumer behavior is the best predictor of future behavior.

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