Branding
Is your business differentiated in your local area? Branding is essential for creating trust and repeat business on a local level. For many local businesses, street signage, vehicle livery, brochures and flyers will generate as good a return-on-investment as online marketing is likely to do.
What's old in new again
Getting noticed is often about doing things differently. If your competitors are pouring their marketing spend into online tactics, then a little bit of print may be all you need to stand out. Depending on your business, a good ol' fashioned mail drop — done well — may get better results than your globally focused MailChimp campaign. Mail is the new email.
Perceptions of value
Print carries a perception of value that most web-based marketing doesn't match. Send your client an email and 90% of 'em will bin it; send them a brochure, flyer or other direct mail piece, and 64% will hang onto it.
Lies, damned lies and statistics
I know, I know. But if this stat is even half true it's worth noting: 80% of physical mail is opened, only 20% of email is opened.
More responsive
Forget the buzz relating to mobile websites. In the traditional sense, the response rate for email-based marketing is 0.12%; the response rate for traditional direct mail marketing is almost 5%. That's more than 40 times better. 40!
Lead generation
Even for web-based businesses, print has its place. Various studies have shown that two-thirds of online purchases are driven by print marketing, and that print marketing carries a better online purchasing conversion rate than online marketing alone.
Print works
saso.creative started off in the good ol’ days of direct mail. Print marketing still holds a special place in our collective heart.
Not just because we’re good at it. Not just because print offers more options. Not just because print efficiencies have dropped significantly in the last five years or so.
Because it works. Business to consumer, interest to sales conversion, nothing else even comes close. That’s not bias: study after study after study concludes that print is still the most effective marketing medium.
Talk to us today about what a good ol’ fashioned print campaign can do for your business.