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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. Although direct mail’s response rate has dropped over time, it’s still a valuable tool for marketers and salespeople. Direct mail advantages and disadvantages.

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Direct Mail Prospecting: 10 Reasons to Get Physical in Sales

Sales Hacker

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. For them, it’s worth getting physical — stop relying solely on digital channels and integrate direct mail and gifting into your sequences.

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Go through the motions

Sales 2.0

Their study looked at 479,140 outbound cadences from nearly 9,000 companies. The research also recommends mixing up the media you use to connect with your buyer, by using email, phone, social media and direct mail. 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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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%. Amplify Your Prospecting with More Opportunities to Connect Is cold calling still effective? Absolutely.

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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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What You Can do TODAY to Build Sales Pipeline This Quarter

DiscoverOrg Sales

Let your sales development team go after them like cold leads – a phone call, an email sequence, maybe even a direct mail piece. Nurture closed-dead B2B sales opportunities. All of those case studies and personalized emails you sent, and this lead didn’t even bother to show up for the demo. Revive demo no-shows.

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