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The Ultimate Guide to Direct Mail

Hubspot Sales

What is direct mail? Direct mail is a marketing strategy that involves sending a physical letter, package, mailer, brochure, postcard, etc. to your prospects and/or current customers. Although direct mail’s response rate has dropped over time, it’s still a valuable tool for marketers and salespeople.

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Direct Mail Prospecting: 10 Reasons to Get Physical in Sales

Sales Hacker

I hate to break it to you, but prospects in your target accounts have the same reaction to your sales messages. In this article, we’ll explore how this reaction impacts your bottom-line results, and then I’ll dive into an alternative that you may not have considered — direct mail prospecting and gifting. Let’s dive in.

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Go through the motions

Sales 2.0

Research from XANT looked at the optimal “cadence” for prospecting based on the masses of data available to them through companies’ usage of their software. Their study looked at 479,140 outbound cadences from nearly 9,000 companies. If you go too far, you may be burning your own time on opportunities that do not warrant it.

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How Small Gifts Can Create Big Marketing Wins

Zoominfo

A 2018 study by the University of Zurich found that even a small gift from a sales representative makes customers much more likely to make a purchase. In the study, reps gave customers six tubes of toothpaste — a trivial offering. What do we mean by “direct mail marketing”? The results? Anything but trivial.

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The 5 Top Media for Cold Prospecting

Pointclear

According to the Direct Marketing Association’s Power of Direct Marketing study, B-to-B marketers spent $14 billion in 2011 on telephone marketing for lead generation in the U.S. That compares to $7 billion spent on direct mail and $4.5 billion on search marketing for the same purpose.

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The Difference Between Lead & Prospect in Sales

Apptivo

From seeds to success: Journey of leads and prospects in sales 2. What is a prospect? Lead Vs Prospect: what’s the difference? Where are prospects and leads in the funnel? How to turn a lead into a prospect? Let’s take a stroll through the sales garden, examining the subtle differences between leads and prospects.

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4 Ways to Improve your Cold Calling with Better Data

Zoominfo

One study found that societal disruptions from COVID-19 caused customer data to decay faster than normal in the UK , pushing the annual rate above 37%. Salespeople spend almost 20% of their time on researching prospects — time they could be spending generating revenue. What’s the impact of bad data? Absolutely.