An interesting article on the website of XMPie deals with Customer Experience and the Customer Journey. As the article notes, customer demands are continuously increasing. Companies are responding by offering more and more product variety and communicating through various media channels and devices. As a result, the Customer Experience – the interaction between the customer and the business – is now a main aspect of a marketer’s daily work.
To stand out from the crowd – and convince these demanding customers – companies must use their unique selling proposition (USP). Using your USP enables you to achieve a solid and efficient customer relationship and positive customer dialogue.
In addition, marketers need to find the best channel to get their marketing message through to the customer. Shotgun approaches don’t produce successful results any more.
locr Services provide a solution for marketers to create more successful customer communication. Using the following three tips you can create a direct mailing that drives more engagement and achieves higher response rates – which helps you to establish a valuable connection to your customer and a positive customer experience.
Provide Relevant Information with Personalization
To create a high level of engagement with a postcard, use as much personalization as possible to make it even more relevant to the recipient.
Make your offer relevant to the customer by sending just those offers that are interesting to the recipient. The locr GEOservices help you to refine your mailing list by distance and travel time to provide your target group with just the information it would really be interested in. No customer would drive 20 miles to do his grocery shopping, but a direct mail showing the route to the next supermarket 2 miles away would be relevant information.
Emotional Connection
Visual aspects create engagement but also establish a connection with your customer. If you send your customer a personalized map with his address highlighted on it and a route to your next location – the first step of customer dialogue is already done. A map for instance connects you visually with your customer. It shows the customer where you are and how he can get in touch with you and reach you by the shortest route.
Choose from our variety of locr maps the one most suitable for your purposes – be it a map of your location (LOCALmap), a map with a highlighted route from your customer’s address to your next location (NAVImap) or different detailed map cutouts of a location or navigation map (MULTImap).
Compelling Design
When it comes to design, there are a few simple tips to improve the chances for your mailing of getting noticed and acted on. Use font and design to move the reader’s eye where you want it to go. Choosing a heavier card stock or an unusual texture like varnish is another way to get your mailing to stand out. And why not go a different route and pick a color that will really stand out? Choose colors that are vibrant and support the theme of your campaign.
Mailing a non-standard sized piece may be more expensive, but it can help your mailing to stand out from other postcards and pieces of mail.
You can find a detailed blog post about designing a successful direct mailing piece here.
Use these tips and see what happens to the response rates of your next campaign.
