WANT A DIRECT MAIL GRAND SLAM HOME RUN?
Post #45
January 9, 2024
Well, who in direct mail doesn’t?
Quite frankly, it’s not that difficult.
Perhaps you’ve heard the cliché about football being mostly about the fundamentals of “blocking and tackling.”
The direct mail version of “blocking and tackling” is a baseball GRAND SLAM HOME RUN...
List
Brand
Project
Involvement
By the way, last week instead of “involvement,” I wrote “techniques.”
When I discussed this with the team in our weekly 2-hour Thursday morning creative meeting, which is named Clients Going Bigger, several people said a more accurate word rather than “techniques” would be “involvement”—and I quickly agreed.
In the 1960s I discovered that most successful commercial direct mail used involvement as a means of significantly increasing returns, and for most of the time since then I’ve also used the word involvement.
Get one of these four wrong (List, Brand, Project, Involvement) and it will be difficult to have a successful mailing much like a baseball GRAND SLAM HOME RUN. However, if all four are right it’s almost impossible to fail.
Last week I stressed the first and most important of the GRAND SLAM HOME RUN—LIST.
Today, I want to discuss the second most important aspect of the GRAND SLAM HOME RUN—BRAND. Remember what I regularly say about BRAND.
BRAND is the fourth leg of the Four Horsemen of Marketing®.
BRAND is a combination of the first three legs of the Four Horsemen of Marketing—POSITION, DIFFERENTIATION, and BENEFIT.
BRAND is when you own a category. You’re a purple cow. There is no one like you.
You can’t get two or three of the Four Horsemen right. You must get all four correct to your audience.
Get all four correct, and marketing your nonprofit/political candidate will be a snap.
Get one wrong, it may not be impossible to succeed, but it will certainly be more difficult. Get two wrong, and you can forget about having a GRAND SLAM HOME RUN.
When marketing your nonprofit, clearly communicate your POSITION—the hole in the marketplace you occupy.
POSITION is a private decision. The second of the Four Horsemen, DIFFERENTIATION, is what you do publicly to let people know about your POSITION.
Third is BENEFIT. If you have a hole in the marketplace and it’s clear to your audience what you do that’s different, but you offer no benefit, why should anyone donate or buy from you?
When you have a strong first three of the Four Horsemen, you’ll have a BRAND that will carry you to many successful mailings/marketing campaigns.
Next week we’ll be heading to third base, with home base in sight.
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