Business to Business Direct Marketing

Consumer marketers rely on this one selling piece to do the bulk of their selling when it comes to getting people to subscribe to their mag¬azine, buy their insurance policy, or purchase their mail-order product. The package is continually mailed, tested, refined, and modified. Copy-writers are hired to create new test packages to mail and measure against the existing package. The package that wins the test becomes the control package and is mailed in mass quantities to as many lists as is profitable. In the olden days of direct marketing, copy was king. The copywriters called the shots.


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Direct Marketing In most consumer direct response marketing, direct marketers are geared toward producing the package: an elaborate mailing that consists of a lengthy letter (usually four pages or longer), illustrated brochure or cir¬cular, order form, reply envelope, and additional elements such as a second letter, second brochure, second order form, or flier.

 

About Business to Business Direct Marketing Write Like You Talk. Excellent direct marketing copy has a certain informality to it. The copy is conversational, friendly, and easy to read—almost as if the writer is conversing with the reader. (Do not mistake this tip for poor writing—sloppy copy does not reflect well on the marketer!)Resonse Lists .

 

Business to Business Direct Marketing info: A vice president of operations, for example, doesn't clip a coupon from a trade journal ad and order a $75o,000 air pollution control sys¬tem by mail. Could you imagine the response coupon for such an ad?
Yes, I'm interested in controlling pollution in my chemical plant? Please send me an XP-800 Wet Scrubbing System. Our check for $750,000, in fact, they often started in the business as salesmen and later translated their face-to-face selling arguments into lengthy direct response ad copy. Graphics were not nearly as important early on.
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See also Online Direct Marketing.

 

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