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Welcome back! If you have been around Direct Marketing or Internet Marketing for any time at all you have probably already heard how personalizing your sales message can increase your response rates and conversion rates. One simple way to personalize your sales message is to use your prospect’s name. Just check your snail mail and [...]

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One of the most popular and cost effective strategy of internet marketing is direct email marketing. With instant feedback from your customers, you are able to frequently monitor your web site’s performance too. If you are into an online business, then your quest for newer forms of internet marketing or advertising grows. Direct email marketing [...]

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Personalizing your emarketing items, such as newsletters, broadcasts, etc. is not new; most people who use email regularly are used to seeing their first names in email subject lines or within an email newsletter. And, if you regularly send out emails to your subscribers, you probably have remembered the “first name” merge code by heart. [...]

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When you have signed up as an online affiliate with a merchant, you know that your next action is to start promoting the affiliate product. The promotion campaign is done by driving traffic to your affiliate web page. When you have worked hard to drive traffic to your site, you want to make sure it [...]

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Seven in ten consumers want you to personalize the direct mail you send them. Are you giving them what they want? According to Cap Ventures’ 2003 study of personalization, more than 69% of consumers prefer highly personalized direct mail offers over non-personalized offers. Smart direct mail marketers personalize their mailings because personalization works. Personalization boosts [...]

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An interesting article I found while browsing Ezinearticles.com earlier: A colleague who does work for a nonprofit organization contacted me asking if I could do research on the success rate of personalized direct mail letters (Dear Joe) versus generically addressed letters (Dear Friend). Surprisingly, I didn’t find as many statistics as expected, but I found [...]

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It turns out that the burning of the midnight oil led me to complete “The Personalization Precept” project a full day ahead of schedule.  If you’re interested in obtaining a complementary copy of the report, please visit http://PersonalizationPrecept.com right away and register.  It’s painless and best of all, it’s free! How much better does it [...]

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