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LOB'S WEBSITE EXPERIENCE IS NOT OPTIMIZED FOR INTERNET EXPLORER. PLEASE CHOOSE ANOTHER BROWSER. Contact UsLOG IN/SIGN UP Direct Mail Automation What is Direct Mail Automation? Transform manual, repetitive direct mail processes to accelerate time to value and reduce costs. Calculate Direct Mail ROI Use the ROI Calculator to reveal if you’re leaving revenue on the table. 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But within your team's overall marketing strategy, it's important to break down each channel and build a strategy for them as well. You'll have your email marketing strategy, social media marketing strategy, content marketing strategy, PPC strategy, and so on that all funnel into your overall marketing strategy. Today, we're here to help you build your direct mail marketing strategy for 2023 so you can set this channel up for success and meet your team's overarching marketing goals. Speaking of goals, it's time to jump into step 1 of creating your 2023 direct mail strategy. STEP 1: CHECKING YOUR GOALS What are you looking to achieve throughout the year? If you're looking to juggle several different goals, you should ask which of them your campaign will prioritize. Most direct mail strategies have one of three goals in mind: acquisition, reactivation, or retention. ACQUISITION Of the three direct mail campaign goals, acquisition is the most obvious. While customer acquisition costs (CAC) vary heavily by industry, they do tend to be significant. For example, recent data has put the average price per customer acquisition at $205 for SaaS, $862 for education, $640 for financial services, and $410 for business consultants. A top task of a direct mail marketing strategy is to use the medium to reduce your CAC. Direct mail can play a profound role in driving down CAC, owing to the channel's comparatively high ROI. In fact, our 2022 State of Direct Mail report found that 67% of marketers say direct mail provides the best ROI of any channel. RETENTION In the early 2000s, Bain and Harvard Business School set the marketing and sales world on fire with a bold theory. By increasing retention by as little as 5 percent, Bain and HBC argued that a company can boost its profits by up to 95 percent. This theory draws from the idea that repeat customers become more affordable per transaction. For example, repeat customers require far fewer marketing resources to continue doing business with. As a result of ever-lowering costs relative to their revenue, repeat customers grow substantially more profitable over time. A direct mail strategy for retention campaigns is often centered around this idea. Such a strategy aims to leverage your customer relationships and the data you've gathered on said customers. Using this intelligence and data, you can precisely target customers with suitable products, services, information, and offers. As a result, they don't require any investment in third-party data or intelligence. REACTIVATION Reactivation campaigns are centered around re-securing and reactivating past customers. As with retention campaigns, ones centered around reactivation can leverage your existing data and be highly targeted - especially if you understand why they left the relationship with your brand in the first place. Was it pricing? Use direct mail to share new pricing tiers or a sale. Did the customer leave to do business with a competitor? Send them a mailer that outlines key features your product or service has that the competitor might not have or any upcoming releases that could solve a specific pain point. STEP 2: ALLOCATING YOUR BUDGET Now, it's time to look at your overall budget for your marketing efforts. Any direct mail strategy has to sit within a broader omnichannel marketing strategy and is competing with channels that may appear more affordable on the front end. Direct mail is a powerful channel, but like any channel, it needs to be matched to the right campaign to drive the best results. If you're hosting an exclusive event for your customers, you most likely won't be running PPC ads that anyone can see and you might even hide the landing page from the search engines. In this example, more budget should be allocated to direct mail as this channel is well-suited for a personalized invitation for your customers. Understand what campaigns require a direct mail budget and allocate accordingly. One reason many marketing teams trust Lob for direct mail marketing is our fixed, flat-rate pricing. This allows you to better predict campaign costs and track which campaigns are driving more ROI. STEP 3: TESTING, EXPERIMENTATION, AND DATA Once you've set your overall strategic priorities, you need to consider the processes you'll be using to ground your direct mail strategy for 2023, as well as identify tests you can run to optimize your campaigns to reach your 2023 goals. Just as you run A/B tests on emails or landing pages, you should be testing your direct mail as well to better understand what your customers or prospects respond to. Tests could include: * The mail format (postcard, letter, self-mailer, etc.) * The CTA (call vs. visit a website, scan a QR code vs. type out a URL, etc.) * Messaging * The offer (20% off vs. a set dollar amount) Cleaning up your customer and prospect database is a prerequisite to effective testing, experimentation, and personalization for your campaigns. Reviewing the validity and value of your data is essential to ensuring robust campaign ROI and can be achieved via address verification capabilities. DELIVERING A DIRECT MAIL MARKETING STRATEGY If you're interested in learning specifically about strategies to improve direct mail's ability to achieve your team's goals, get your own copies of Lob's guides to direct mail marketing for acquisition, retention, and reactivation. And if you need help in modernizing your direct mail marketing strategy, the Lob team is here for you. 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