Archive for May, 2009

Deadly Direct Mail Insurance marketing Strategies

Hopefully you saw the knockout punches I laid down on Kapshire last week proving to him that direct mail is powerful. (If you missed it you can check  out the boxing match at www.maverickslive.com)

But direct mail can be a big waste of money if you don’t do it right. (and it’s an even bigger waste if you make the error I talk about at  the end of this post.)

In my last blog post I talked about he Headline Cruncher, the 4 U’s that help you tune up the power of your headlines.

A quick recap:
Unique
Useful
Urgent
Ultra-Specific

To help you with the process of creating good direct mail headlines, you are going to be looking over my shoulder as I go through the process of writing a few headlines for some marketing pieces we’re testing.

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