What is the best way to reach your audience and create a relationship with them?

 

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Although its format is informal looking, the data card in Figure 4.2 is typical of the arrangement of information you receive from list brokers. No standards exist for data cards but most brokers provide the type of information shown here. Notice the cost per thousand (/M) based on recency and the other selections available on this list.

 

These are multipage, multiproduct pieces that typically include all ordering information in one place. In the technology marketplace, catalogs are very common for selling software, some computer hardware, electronic components, accessories/supplies, and so on.

 

AThese include anything not mailed in an enclosure: postcards, flyers, multipanels with tear-off reply cards, brochures, and "all-in-one" formats. Self-mailers are often used to generate leads and seminar attendance, and less often for order generation. They can also be used as the first part of a two-step approach (step 1: generate lead; step 2: fulfill lead).This consists of self-mailers, letter packages, collateral, postcard decks, and catalogs.Following are brief discussions of the basic media available to the business-to-business direct marketer.

 

Business Mailing Lists

 

Many of the e-mail lists available today from brokers are called opt-in lists. They're largely response lists because they represent names and online ad-dresses of individuals who have either bought something online or agreed to accept online offers.

In one case, America Online succeeded in blocking a mass e-mailer from reaching AOL's millions of subscribers. Proponents of mass e-mail say their techniques are no different from unsolicited direct mail. They point out that mass e-mailings of-ten include opt-out information that direct mail lacks. (Opt-out instructions tell consumers how they can have their names and e-mail addresses removed from a list.) The future of mass, unsolicited e-mail is uncertain.

 

One further option for developing lists is to compile your own. If you're looking for a specific group of people and you can find a business directory, membership list, or other source that contains the names you need, you can create your own list. This should not be treated as your house list, because these people have not bought from you yet, but you won't have any limitations on use of the list as you would if you rented it.

Many business organizations, chambers of commerce, and community and civic clubs have membership lists available. Some organizations go a step further and sell address labels of members. Most government records are public information and, given the time, you could compile your own local lists based on business licenses, homes purchased, business consolidations, liquor licenses, and many other categories. (Many professional compilers use these same sources.) .

 

Your list costs are the same whether or not you ask your broker for advice.

 

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