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Heavily Guarded Secrets-SRDS plus Control Mailings

by Christopher_Stella
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So if your only using online as a way to make money your crazy. Direct mail is where its at, online is great for testing and a good portion of sales but mail is where you make big money.

end of rant.

Just wondering if any of you guys out there have swipes of control peices for the big mailers, across a number of industry's, just so happens im in fitness.

insidedirectmail and whosendingwhat come with hefty price tags. the srds of 1 yr is at the lib, i know that but u dont get controls or see the marketing.

Any suggestions, insights, or swipes would be awesome

Take care, this will help a world of people

Out.

Chris
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  • Profile picture of the author fasteasysuccess
    You're absolutely right, direct mail is where the money is. You actually can have way better results even when you take your online leads into an offline sequence like I do.

    You might want to check out EdithRoman if you don't want to spend the change on srds. You may also want to check out your library, a lot of the major cities have it but like you said don't show pieces.

    Here's a golden site for samples and swipes Info Marketing Blog | Direct Response Marketing | Copywriting
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  • Profile picture of the author Mr. Subtle
    Originally Posted by Christopher_Stella View Post

    So if your only using online as a way to make money your crazy. Direct mail is where its at, online is great for testing and a good portion of sales but mail is where you make big money.

    Just wondering if any of you guys out there have swipes of control peices for the big mailers ... just so happens im in fitness.

    whosendingwhat come with hefty price tags.
    If you think spending a whopping $127 for a 1-year basic membership to whosmailingwhat (which includes 5 FREE hi-rez downloads of direct mail packages) is a lot of money... then stay online 'cause it costs big bucks, upfront, to do offline.

    Looking at direct mail packages sent out 2 or 3 decades ago is fine, but when you have money on the line, you need to know what's working TODAY... in your niche.
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    • Profile picture of the author zapseo
      Lawrence Bernstein's Ultimate-Online-Swipefile is a good resource,
      but not cheap.

      He works like a banshee on it -- that I do know.

      Check out his blog, too...

      Info Marketing Blog | Direct Response Marketing | Copywriting

      I could tell you a cool story about him from Gary Bencivenga's retirement seminar -- but, alas, I signed an NDA to get Gary's DVDs...sigh.

      Live JoyFully!

      Judy
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      • Profile picture of the author gareth
        Guys theres a free site online just like SRDS - I always forget the darn URL.

        Anybody remember ?
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        Serial Entrepreneur
        Auckland, New Zealand

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  • Profile picture of the author Kent Hopkins
    You are absolutely right. I used to subscribe to every single SRDS publication and yes they are a LOT of money but I did close to 4 million in sales because of them. They have the low down on any type of media imaginable.

    It was thanks to them I was able to advertise in over 3000 newspapers and mags simultaneously and receive an average of 16,700 inquiries per day.

    I am not affiliated with SRDS and get nothing out of saying this whatsoever, but I can say, they are one of the original players in media research.
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