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| telemarketing, then you will want to look into direct | | | | an appointment for your sales team to make an in |
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| Direct Mail | | | | Telemarketers might engage people by using a quiz or |
| For decades the most popular kind of direct marketing | | | | asking them to answer a few simple questions that |
| has been direct mail. Direct mail pieces motivate your | | | | could result in their winning a gift. |
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| images, with an intriguing offer. | | | | written scripts that offer some kind of a monetary |
| One of the keys to the success of a direct mail | | | | incentive to the prospects on your list. Often the most |
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| your piece has the highest probability of being opened, | | | | A relatively new strategy for targeting direct |
| read, and acted upon. | | | | promotions is email marketing. Today almost every |
| Here's an example of how it might be done. | | | | one of your prospects owns a computer and gets |
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| Telemarketing | | | | you can have instantaneous feedback You can |
| You can use a direct marketing services company to | | | | include surveys, contests, and actually ask your |
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| telemarketing efforts is not to make a sale. | | | | |