Direct Mail Campaign Checklist

What is a direct mail campaign checklist?

With many businesses now choosing to contact their databases via the post, you must have a checklist when sending direct mail marketing campaigns to ensure you achieve your objectives.

Here is our Direct Mail Marketing Checklist to ensure your campaign goes well.

Direct Mail Marketing Checklist

Here is The Direct Mail Company’s direct mail campaign checklist to help you avoid common mistakes:

1. Set Objectives – Decide what your objectives are going to be for the campaign. For example, maintaining customer relationships or generating new enquiries.
2. Identify Your Target Audience – Who will the campaign be aimed at?
3. Set A Budget – Decide how much you will allocate for the campaign, considering how much you need to spend to get a healthy return on investment.
4.  Pick The Best Time – Decide the best day to send a direct mail campaign. You want to avoid sending the campaign on holidays and weekends when the recipient may not be at home.
5. Create A Mailing List – Build a mailing list from existing customers and new prospects and keep it up to date, ensuring how you use and store the personal data complies with the Data Protection Act.
6. Create The MailShot – Prepare, design and create the mailshot for your campaign. Ensure the campaign’s design is eye-catching with interesting content and a clear call to action, so it is obvious to the recipient what they need to do.
7. Encourage Response Rates – Make it easy for the recipient to respond by offering an incentive.
8. Send The Campaign – Mail out the direct mail campaign using DSA providers to ensure you get a cheap postage rate.
9. Handle the Response – Please decide how you will handle the responses from the campaign. For example, buy more stock if you need to make any preparations.
10. Track And Monitor The Success – Could you make sure you track and monitor the campaign to evaluate how successful or unsuccessful the campaign was against your aims and objectives?

The Direct Mail Company’s Direct Mail Campaign Checklist

The Direct Mail Company is a professional mailing house that offers 5* customer service and aims to reply to your enquiry within minutes.

We specialise in the UK and International mail fulfilment services to a variety of small and large clients in the UK and overseas.

We provide end-to-end service and aim to take the hassle out of direct mail by providing you with clear pricing, a dedicated account manager and your mail delivered on time, every time.

Our direct mail services include printing solutions, mail fulfilment and bulk postage rates.

By taking advantage of our bulk postage rates, you will save a significant amount on postage costs.

Due to the high volumes of mail, we send each year we will get you the lowest possible rates on bulk postage using DSA providers, including Whistl, Citipost, and UKMail.

These companies complete the sortation for Royal Mail which is how we achieve the lowest postage rates.

If you are looking for a cost-effective way of marketing your business, enquire with The Direct Mail Company to discuss whether a blanket door drop or direct mail would work better for you.

For more information on outsourcing your mailshot campaigns to The Direct Mail Company, please call us on 0330 818 2404 or email sales@thedirectmailcompany.co.uk with your request.