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Essential Guide To Telemarketing Part 2:Top 10 tips and Techniques (6-10)

Posted: September 1st, 2011 by Marketscan comment-icon 0

Applied properly, telemarketing can win new business, build measurable sales pipelines and increase knowledge of your customer base.

Essential Guide To Telemarketing Part 1:Top 10 tips and Techniques (1-5)

Posted: September 1st, 2011 by Marketscan comment-icon 1

Telemarketing through sustained cold calling and ongoing business development calls is a proven way to grow your business and develop a steady, regular sales pipeline.

Direct Marketing Guide Part 11: Need a Little Help?

Posted: September 1st, 2011 by Marketscan comment-icon 0

For the want of a nail… The authors of this booklet have over 28 years’ experience in the Database and Direct Marketing industry. Marketscan can offer advice on all aspects of planning, with particular expertise in managing a database, profiling and producing great business to business, prospect mailing lists.

Direct Marketing Guide Part 10: Success

Posted: September 1st, 2011 by Marketscan comment-icon 0

As so much planning goes into what communication you are sending out, ensure you leave enough time to plan what you will do with the successful outcome. Having spent so much effort getting customers, don’t lose them again through poor response or customer service.

Direct Marketing Guide Part 8: It’s All About Style

Posted: September 1st, 2011 by Marketscan comment-icon 0

It’s not what you say – it’s the way that you say it. The actual style will depend very much on your product and customer type. Some of the biggest expenditure Direct Mail campaigns you will see push the creative boundaries as far as they will go. Sometimes they push them too far and fail to communicate the message effectively to their customers. Don’t let your message get lost in the rest of the design. For a simple sales letter, … Read more »

Direct Marketing Guide Part 7: The Nitty Gritty

Posted: September 1st, 2011 by Marketscan comment-icon 0

This is it. The time to put pen to paper. You should be clear on all your objectives, output formats, target customers, FABs, mechanisms for reply, etc. Now you have to make it all happen. There are a number of simple techniques or formulae designed to help you approach a sales letter logically. They are not intended as a ‘straitjacket’, merely as a guide to ensure you cover the right points in the right order.

Direct Marketing Guide Part 5: Planning the Literature

Posted: September 1st, 2011 by Marketscan comment-icon 0

You know your target customer. You are clear about the mission. Now at the heart of every Direct Mail shot is the sales letter. Whether you are emailing, faxing or posting. Whether you include coupons, reply-paid cards, brochures or leaflets, offers, gifts…it�s the sales material itself that provides the personal communication element. Although great sales letters don’t grow on trees, bad ones mostly fail through one or two simple and fundamental mistakes.

Direct Marketing Guide Part 3: Locating New Prospects

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This guide will allow you get get a better idea of how you can locate your target audience.

Direct Marketing Guide Part 2: Research

Posted: September 1st, 2011 by Marketscan comment-icon 0

Once you have decided to use Direct Mail, you must research to understand who your targets are in some detail. These targets can be selected from any commercially available database. This will locate your potential customers from the “whole world” of customers. Whether you are targeting business customers or consumers, there are clear steps in the planning process.

Direct Marketing Guide Part 1: Understanding

Posted: September 1st, 2011 by Marketscan comment-icon 1

Direct Marketing is direct to the customer. This includes Direct Response Advertising, email and Interactive Web Sites. However, the most common format is Direct Mail. In terms of overall expenditure, Direct Mail ranks as the third largest advertising technique in the UK.

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