The first time you visit the Mailing Online web
page, you will need to click on the Sign-Up button.
Signing up for a personal account allows you to
save postcards and mailing lists so that you can easily reuse them in
the future. Now let’s talk about some of the benefits that this service
has to offer.
A Penny per Postcard for Printing:
Normal postage for a postcard is twenty-three
cents. The cost of mailing out a postcard through Mailing Online is
twenty-four cents. This is like getting your postcards printed for a
penny each and addressed for free.
Avoid Numerous Steps and Saves Hours of
Your Time:
Avoid picking up your cards from the printer,
addressing and stamping them by hand, and delivering them to the post
office for mailing. The money saved is significant and the time saved is
huge.
Use Ready-Made Templates to Create Your
Mailing Pieces:
Mailing Online provides templates for you download
and open in several popular applications such as Microsoft Word. This
makes designing you postcard easy. Then you upload the postcard to
Mailing Online to use in your mailing campaign.
Easily Upload Your Mailing List:
Mailing Online allows you to easily upload your
mailing list from several different file formats including Excel and MS
Word.
Verify Your Addresses against Official
Post Office Records:
Mailing Online will automatically check you
mailing list against official post office records. You will be told if
any of your addresses do not match. Then you can decide whether to
eliminate these addresses so that you don't waste money on invalid
addresses.
Choose from Several Mailing Formats:
You can also choose to mail a variety of other
mailing pieces including brochures, letters, and self-mailer flyers.
Mailing Online provides the templates you need to create these mailers.
However, I suggest using this service primarily for postcards. I have
not tried their flyers, I think brochures are pointless, and I imagine
their letters are label-addressed which is puts your mailer in the junk
pile as soon as is seen by your prospect.
Saving Mailing Lists, Postcards, and
Mailing Campaigns for Future Use:
You can save your lists and postcards to be easily
reused for future campaigns without uploading them again.
Schedule Mailing Campaigns to Go Out at a
Future Date:
You can pick a date in the future for you mailer
to go out. You could even set up an entire sequence to go out on
autopilot. For example, you could schedule a postcard to go out right
away, another one in 10 days, and another in a month. This allows you
easily follow-up with your prospects.
Your Postcard is Only as Good as the
Marketing Message it Delivers:
Without getting into a discussion on copywriting,
I want to make the following points about your postcard design:
1. Your postcard will only be as good as your marketing message.
You have about two seconds to attract the reader’s attention before your
postcard ends up in the garbage. The best way to accomplish this is with
a well-written headline.
2. Don’t waste a lot of space on your logo or other fancy graphics. Don’t
waste a lot of space on your company’s name or your contact info. Focus
on telling the reader what you have that can benefit them.
3. Make sure you make it clear what you want the prospect to do next.
Most likely this will be to call you or a message hotline.
4. Since postcard space is limited, just share the most important
aspects of your marketing message.
Tell the reader how they can get more info if they are interested by
sending them to a web site or by asking them to call you to receive more
information (i.e. the rest of your marketing message). This is called
two-step marketing.