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Direct Marketing


Quick Links: Direct Marketing :: Mechanisms of Direct Marketing :: Creating Direct Marketing :: Direct Mail :: Telemarketing :: New Media :: Face to Face :: Door Drops ::


Direct Marketing is an important part of the fundraising arsenal. It allows an organisation to comunicate with large numbers of individuals in a fairly personal way - while being measurable, accountable, allowing testing, and with reasonably predictable outcomes. A huge industry has developed 'behind the scenes' to create, target, send out, and deal with responses from the different Direct Marketing techniques.


Direct Marketing

As potentally intrusive techniques, Direct Marketing has attracted interest from many quarters...



Mechanisms of Direct Marketing

List rental and List brokers, data preperation, data processing, printing, packaging, posting, management, fulfilment



Creating Direct Marketing

Creating the concept and copy of the different direct marketing techniques



Direct Mail

Direct Mail



Register with the Mailing Preference Service (603)
Inserts Mailing Preference Service Mailsort Envelopes Post Office

Telemarketing

Use of the telephone



The central opt out register for unwanted phone calls (833)
Telemarketing center Telephone Preference Service

New Media

Recent years have seen an explosion in fundraising using new media. Not only does it hold the promise of fundraising more cheaply, but it also offers the chance to interest younger audiences in supporting your cause.



Everyclick is a search engine that lets you raise money for charity (607)
everyclick Text messaging Affiliate marketing Blog Podcast Internet E-mail

Face to Face Fundraising

Talking to people directly can be very effective...



Door Drops

Door drops are anonymous in that sender does not know the name and address of the person receiving the communiation.