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Direct
Marketing for the Small Business
Direct marketing is a powerful and cost effective tool to expand your
business. Annually, advertisers spend many billions of dollars on Direct Marketing, more
than any other type of advertising, and its growing fast. Why? Because Direct
Marketing has a unique ability to communicate on a personal level to a targeted audience.
Direct Marketing is extremely effective in generating orders, building
retail sales traffic, raising funds and increasing sales leads. Direct Marketing is
economical, allows for accurate sales predictions, and its costs and effects are directly
and easily measurable. Although direct mail is the most common form of direct marketing,
its only one of several strategies or approaches which include direct response space
ads, telemarketing, package and billing inserts, broadcast, interactive cable TV, and
increasingly the Internet.
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