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Business Post Cards: Five Factors To ConsiderTip! Leave your business cards everywhere you go – leave one on the table in a restaurant, post a few on community bulletin boards. Creating and mailing business post cards is a logical choice when your small business has a small advertising budget. Here are five factors to consider: 1. Your data base list of customers might well be under 500 names.
• You can manage this list yourself on your computer and print out mailing labels. And since there are so few names, you won't have to hire a mailing company to affix the labels, sort by zip code and take it to the post office for you. Tip! Include business cards with your invoices, or bill payments. 2. Our advantage as small businesses is in cultivating a personal relationship with our customers. This holds true whether your business is entirely local or operates in a special business niche market on the national or international level. • A post card is intimate. Emotionally, who can resist reading a colorful post card? Especially those with a nice glossy front side with a compelling message. It's like a personal message from someone you know. Tip! Be generous. Give business cards out to everyone you know, including family and friends. 3. Postcards are a private communication between you and your client so your competition has no idea of what you are doing. • There is no "waste" circulation since only those on your mailing list are included. This will produce better results for the post card, especially when compared to those you get from the "mass media" of newspapers, magazines, etc. 4. We are all receive flyers, circulars and advertising mail whose print runs are measured in the millions. By default, they set creative standards that we feel we should equal or exceed in our own efforts. Tip! Use the front as an enhanced marketing tool. A photographer friend of mine turns his originals creations into four-color business cards. • Since you have so few names to spread across paying for high-level creative services and long-run printing, these services become prohibitive on a cost per address basis. But thanks to digital technology, the creative, printing and mailing costs have been reduced to where they are well within reach of almost anyone. 5. Postcards are a wonderfully fast and efficient way of getting specific messages delivered in a permanent format to your own mailing list and other specific mailing lists you have purchased. • Your postcard can generate immediate response or can be easily set side as a reminder for future action. These are just five of many factors you will want to consider as part of placing business post card mailings on your list of advertising tactics for your small business. © 2006 Jon Sinish This article may be reprinted and distributed as long as the resource information remains intact. Jon Sinish is a 30-year champion of advertising for small businesses, whose clients range from international corporations to private professional practices. For more on business post card advertising, go to http://www.advertising-for-small-businesses.com/post-card-advertising.html Jon invites you to explore his web site http://www.advertising-for-small-businesses.com where you can discover over 25 more articles that reveal practical tips, tactics and strategies to help the small businessperson manage and improve their advertising and marketing programs.
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