by Bob McCarthy | Nov 8, 2017 | Direct Mail, Direct Marketing, General
For as a long as I can remember, marketers have turned themselves inside out trying to adapt to every new generation that comes along. From the baby boomers (my team) to the x and y generations to the current group of 20- and 30-year-olds, the so-called millennials,...
by Bob McCarthy | May 31, 2017 | Copywriting, Direct Mail, Direct Marketing, Email Marketing, General, Lead Generation, Lead Nurturing, Online Advertising, Web Marketing
By now, you’re probably familiar with the concept of the landing page. You run some type of marketing promotion – a paid search, online display ad, email or direct mail campaign – and you set up an online landing page to handle the response. In the beginning, you...
by Bob McCarthy | May 6, 2017 | Copywriting, Direct Marketing, General, Lead Generation, Online Advertising, Web Marketing
There are many good reasons to embrace content and inbound marketing as a strategy for building website traffic and generating sales leads. Start with the continual flow of free traffic you get once your pages are indexed and ranked on Google. And how that traffic...
by Bob McCarthy | Jan 30, 2017 | Direct Mail, Direct Marketing, General, Lead Generation, Lead Nurturing, Web Marketing
For the longest time, direct mail has been used as a first-touch marketing channel – reaching out to prospects to generate sales leads, direct orders, memberships, subscriptions and donations. The process typically involves: renting or buying a mailing list,...
by Bob McCarthy | Jan 5, 2017 | Direct Marketing, General, Lead Generation, Online Advertising, Web Marketing
As many of you know, I have a long history in direct mail. I began as a direct mail copywriter in 1980 and have been at it ever since. But I would be the first to tell you that direct mail is not the solution for every business or every situation. Direct mail is but...
