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Andrew Michaels

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What Constitutes Custom?

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Variety in marketing always leads to the best results, but sometimes you just don’t want to change from the type of advertising that you’re using. If direct mailing has gotten you the best results than why drift away from it? But combined with this is the need to give people something new and interesting, which is where the idea of customizing your marketing comes in.


But what really makes for custom postcards? What can you change about them to get away from the basic structure while still benefiting from the direct mailing and the other qualities that make postcard printing work?


I don’t intend to list every way you can customize your color postcards, because the list is limited by your imagination, but I will throw out a few possibilities to hopefully get you started.


Ever considered having a postcard newsletter? To pull this off you start sending out postcards with one to two articles written on them. The articles will deal with various subject matters about your company or products. Take all the things you would normally put in a newsletter, but now you’re dividing them up and releasing them over a longer period of time on your postcards.


One you get people interested in your postcard newsletter they’ll start to pay closer attention to all of the postcards you send them, increasing your rate of success on your other postcard printing orders as well.


The next way is by finding some kind of visual flare you’ve never used before. I’m afraid I’m a little limited in the specifics here because each industry gives people a different possibility, and the best kinds of visuals will be directly linked in some way to your industry. I would suggest trying to find some kind of stylized images that can connect to your company, and send them as custom postcards meant to increase awareness of your brand name.


Lastly, you can alter the size of your postcard. Doing so will certain impact the cost of mailing them, but this cost won’t necessarily break the bank, and you gain a lot of potential by upping the size of your postcard, which will turn directly into additional sales as well.


Larger postcards obviously allow you more room to say what you need to and let you cover a wider range of information. They also stand out more in the mail pile to make the odds greater that someone will take notice of it and read through what you have to say. I would certainly use very good visuals or headlines with this to take the most advantage of the space provided to you.


I’m sure you can come up with a number of different ways that postcards can be altered to be more unique and creative. You always want to provide people with something they aren’t expecting.

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Andrew Michaels, Texas - July 14th, 2009
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