What does ValPak cost?
 

I know I can call my local ValPak office to get their price, but it's after hours and there are some knowledgeable folks here so I thought I'd post it here.

What does it cost to run an ad in a ValPak mailing?

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I believe it is based on the number distributed. So each area is priced differently. I could be wrong, but I think you will have to call your local rep to have them price out the area you buy for distribution.

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It's specific to each city because it's a franchise model, but generally it's priced by zip code. The general estimate is around $35/1000 mailers.

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Thanks guys. :)

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There is a company around here, that is like ValPak but it puts its flyers in a 5.5x11 booklet. Charges around $700 for 60,000 homes for a full page in it. There was over 60 businesses doing full page ads, the booklet goes out every 2 months. A few half page ads in it too. I did the math and research awhile ago when I was interested, it cost him between 11-13k to produce the book and get it to 60,000 homes via Canada Post. There is 2 like that, and ValPak and another one identical to ValPak in my city of 160,000............

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$495 per zone by me last time I did it - long ago! Got one call and no job out of it - not a fan.

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Lol, I had to Google to find out what ValPak was! I'd seen the name a couple times on threads here, but I'd never heard of it outside this forum so never knew what it was...

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Using this as a guide: http://www.valpaknh.com/images/2010_..._RATE_CARD.pdf

People are paying $4,500 for a one-time mailing to 10k homes, or $680 per mailing to 10k homes if they order 6 mailings.

EDIT: Which breaks down to $.45 per home & $.07 per home, respectively.

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This was along time ago, but my brother paid somewhere around $1500 for 4,000 houses and they did design the coupon for him. I don't think he got any exclusive, so there were other of the same business in the mailing.

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If you're going to use ValPak, be sure to use direct response lead generation methods. Otherwise, you might as well throw your money out with the trash.

You obviously need a powerful offer for people to visit your opt-in page or call a 24-hour recorded message.

Be especially sure this is going to your hot, target market. If not, it's just a mass mailing at best gets a 1% to 3% response. Conversion from suspect to prospect with further diminish your return.

You may be better off to design a bold post card, get targeted mailing addresses of your primary prospects, and mail a direct response offer to these.

Beef your response rate by follow-up calls behind the mailing. "I'm calling about the postcard you just received... oh you didn't see it, it offers..."

Better to send a 100 cards to a hot list, than 10,000 to deadwood. It's cheaper too.

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Good information thanks for responding guys, if you are reading through this pay attention to this stuff. It's gold

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We have a few companies, MoneyMailer, ValPak, CouponMail. There are several companies out there to consider.

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I was considering trying out some affiliate offers in the ValPak. I will have to crunch the numbers to see if it's worth a shot.

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How about finding local businesses that are using ValPak and seeing if they have a site, fanpage, twitter account? Heck you could design their ValPak ad and put a QR code on it to test the response. A lot of ads on there only have phone numbers. This could be a great way to find people that are already spending money on advertising, and are more than likely not getting any results.

FormerWageSlave, I would not waste money on ValPak try adwords or another PPC method that is much more targeted. A lot of people throw the ValPak ads away without opening it, try something more targeted. Start a blog, outsource the content writing, build a list, sell to them. Voila!

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I already do that... I had good luck with affiliate offers on targeted postcards and was curious about ValPak to see if I could do it even cheaper. There's also a flyer service in my city I'm thinking about.

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What did the Val-pak cost come out to actually be?