Direct Mail Advice and Ideas

Study: The Impact of Reading Print
Recent MRI and EEG brain wave measurement studies show how print marketing leaves a deeper impression and more engagement. In a study titled “A Bias for Action – The Neuroscience Behind the Response-Driving Power of Direct Mail” by Canada Post/True...
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Tips for Retention Marketing [Hint: We’ve Seen 15X ROI]
For most businesses, it’s more expensive to acquire new customers than it is to retain existing ones. If a prospect has responded to your acquisition marketing efforts in a positive way, and then made the effort to buy your products or sign up for...

Unlimited Options: Creating Custom Direct Mail
Print advertising is a versatile medium that differs from other forms of advertising in one interesting way: your customers can physically touch and interact with your ad. While we offer many high-quality products that are proven to be effective,...

Choosing Color in Direct Mail Design: Blue Edition
Our popular color series continues to show how thoughtful color choice can help your business break through the subconscious and avoid the conscious “no” of the consumer. Different hues for backgrounds, fonts, images and other design elements...

The Hidden Costs of DIY Mailing
Mailing campaigns yourself can seem pretty straightforward and sometimes even inexpensive—this is where the danger lies. The inconspicuous issues for companies that do their own marketing mailings lie in the deals and discounts to which they didn’t...

How to Create Offers That Inspire Action
The single objective of any direct mail campaign is to get your recipients to take action.While eye-catching design plays an important role and mailing to the right audience is essential, it’s your offer that will influence your target audience to...

Hierarchy in Direct Mail Design
Some would have you believe that content is always king. In the case of direct mail marketing, they’d be wrong. For this medium, the hierarchy of your design is often more important because without it no one is going to read all that great content....

Choosing Color in Direct Mail Design: Grayscale Edition
With plenty of gray skies, wintry white snow days and the somber feelings that can come after the highs of the holidays, January sets the mood for the next edition of our popular color series – or in this case, we’ll call it a lack of color series....

8 Direct Mail Fails and How to Avoid Them
Not every business lives and breathes direct mail quite like Modern Postcard. And that’s okay, because we likely aren’t experts in your field either. Since our team manages a plethora of marketing campaigns every day, we’ve seen the good and the...