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Ever wish there were a simple way to condense a wealth of marketing wisdom into a nice, neat package? This five-point checklist is a handy resource to have in your back pocket. Establish all five areas with every campaign, every time, and you’ll get outstanding results.

Non-profit leaders continue to face the ongoing challenges of fundraising in an increasingly competitive market. But the most recent “Non-profit Leadership Impact Study” from Non-ProfitPRO shows that when NPOs have a strategy in place, things go much better. While the study covers leadership issues ranging from[...]

If you want to know what’s working, test it. Is this recipe better than that one? Is this pair of shoes more comfortable than those? Marketing is no different. By taking a portion of your list and testing one element at a time, you can find out what works best. Even if you’ve done testing in the past, things change.[...]

Since the start of the coronavirus pandemic, businesses have faced challenges due to the growing instability in brand relationships. Especially during the early days of the pandemic, buyers often switched brands due to changes in availability, logistics, and their own economic situations. This quickly challenged[...]

With the U.S. economy re-opening following the height of the coronavirus pandemic, what does this mean for marketing? Are companies continuing to hunker down? Or are they getting back to business? This is important to know both as a benchmark and for competitive insight. If your competitors are back to marketing full[...]

Did you know that customers who shop on multiple channels have a 30% higher customer lifetime value than those who use a single channel? Omnichannel marketing works! Using a combination of digital and print in your marketing campaign generates the best results.

What makes a great customer? Is it the one who places a huge order once, but never again? Or the one who places small orders but orders from you consistently year after year? We need to measure Customer Lifetime Value (CLV) to answer this question.

Businesses are constantly evolving. You develop new products. You launch new services. You begin focusing on a specific niche or targeting new audiences. Be sure to update your marketing collateral along the way to reflect the most up-to-date version of your ever changing business! If you haven’t updated your brand[...]

How do you get customers to open and read your direct mail? The more you know about why the mail gets opened, the more you can tweak your campaigns for maximum effectiveness.

For many businesses, direct mail letters are their “go-to.” They are inexpensive to produce, can include BREs and other inserts, and depending on the design, can seem more personal than self-mailers. Still, the popularity of self-mailers is growing. They, too, are inexpensive and have many benefits.