Direct Marketing Rules of Thumb by Nat G. Bodian 1995, Hardcover: items on eBay.com

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A goldmine of tested DM tips and techniques. DM guru Nat Bodian's latest direct marketing tool crams 40 years of experience into a treasure drove of response-driven strategies for racking up sales by mail, phone, and space advertising. Exhaustively indexed to make fast access easy, Direct Marketing Rules of Thumb packs 1,000 priceless time and money saving ideas you need to: prepare, use, and evaluate every DM component--from headlines to offers to credit and collections; locate, select, time, and test top-selling mailing lists for business, professions, medicine, consumers, charities, and more--plus work with list brokers, managers, and compilers; land your share of the $300 billion telemarketing business--including getting started, finding help, preparing scripts, targeting top prospects, selecting lists, and more; sell successuflly through card decks; snag the best prices on paper, printing, production, and mail shop services; create and place low-cost DM space ads; much, much more.

Nat Bodian, a direct marketing veteran who remains on the cutting edge of the field, delivers tested guidance on all aspects of direct mail; card packs; mailing lists; list brokers, compilers, and managers; telemarketing; printing, production, and letter shop procedures; and mail-order print ad techniques. Full treatment of each topic helps you define it, use it to your best advantage, avoid pitfalls, evaluate other options, and measure response. Yet, while the coverage is truly broad and up-to-the-minute - including new FTC regulations and emerging technologies - you need not wade through long sections of secondary text to find the information you seek. "Each of the more than 1,000 entries is the 'pure' idea expressed in the simplest terms and fewest words", the author notes. "Each entry is complete, succinct, and easily digestible". Some examples: . Rule 20:04 - Heaviest Single Day's Response from Mailing: As a rule, says Hershell Gordon Lewis, a mail order expert, you can expect the heaviest single day's response to a mailing on the second Monday after the first order arrives. Rule 55:04 - Best Ad Position in Business Periodicals: As a rule, an advertisement in a specialized business periodical will attract the most attention on the page facing the table of contents. To complement its wide scope, Direct Marketing Rules of Thumb also provides greater in-depth coverage of specific direct marketing aspects than any previous book on the subject. For example, it devotes full chapters to reply cards ... return envelopes ... response devices order forms ... card-pack design ... virtually all types of mailing lists, including business, consumer, professional, medical, periodical, andfund-raising ... typography selection ... and the use of 800 numbers in space ads and inbound telemarketing. Extensive key-word indexing and careful cross-referencing help you further pinpoint relevant data. Twenty-one appendixes provide a self-contained library of key industry resources, from list renters to postal rates.

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Subtitled 1,000 Practical and Profitable Ideas to Help You Improve Response, Save Money, and Increase Efficiency in Your Direct Program . Bodian provides guidance on all aspects of direct mail; card packs; mailing lists; list brokers, compliers, and managers; telemarketing; printing, production, and letter shop procedures; and mail-order print ad techniques. The treatment of each topic is geared toward helping readers understand it, use it to best advantage, avoid pitfalls, evaluate other options, and measure response. Annotation copyright Book News, Inc. Portland, Or.
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