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You’ve probably seen the latest BIA Kelsey data that radio is the sixth-highest used advertising platform today, with “direct mail” being the number one advertising platform in terms of advertising expenditures.<\/span><\/h4>\n

In telling radio’s story, we have to educate advertisers about the miss-use of the term “direct mail”.<\/span><\/h4>\n

Direct mail is mail that is addressed and sent “directly” to a known person’s address.<\/span><\/h4>\n

The advertising that is delivered to households indiscriminately is better defined as “mass mail” or is commonly referred to as “junk mail”.<\/span><\/h4>\n

The reasons radio account executives need to make that distinction are many.<\/span><\/h4>\n

First, your advertisers and prospects are hearing at their trade conferences and reading in their trade magazines about the “success” of direct mail. And it’s true, direct mail by nature works because it’s sent directly to a prequalified known prospect.\u00a0 Smart radio account executives encourage their clients to use real direct mail in the media mix because today, it’s FREE.<\/span><\/h4>\n

In the old days, advertisers had to compensate printing shops, paper mills, delivery trucks or the post office to produce and deliver their direct mail.<\/span><\/h4>\n

Today, direct mail is literally free via permission-based email….no envelopes, no printing presses, no postage stamps. <\/span><\/h4>\n

Don’t let your advertisers return from their conferences all hyped up about direct mail only to end up sending what’s really junk mail…sent via indiscriminate household “flooding”. <\/span><\/h4>\n

Click here<\/a> to arrange an on-line demo of how our local TOMA surveys and SoundADvice radio e-marketing system are helping radio station account executives prove the ineffectiveness of junk mail, and the effectiveness of a broadcast and permission-based e-mail campaign.<\/span><\/h4>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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