Sustainable Marketing

Sustainable Marketing – Environmental and ROI considerations – Why direct mail is the smart choice.

 With the modern dependence on email marketing, the value of direct mail has been somewhat overlooked. The email boom and the public’s misunderstanding about the environmental impact of this area of marketing has conspired to leave an awful lot of businesses missing out on the benefits that only a well thought-out, creative direct mail campaign can bring.

The public perception of the industry as wasteful and not environmentally aware is just flat-out wrong and is something that we are working tirelessly to change; we try to offer a fairer reflection of steps being taken to ensure that direct mail has as small an impact on the environment as possible. For example, the mailing industry is constantly searching out ways in which it can reduce its carbon footprint, as all responsible industries and individuals should be, and great strides have been made in recent years in areas such as the types of materials used and improving the accuracy of addresses used to reduce undeliverable items.

 
The Direct Mail Association has also been engaged in an industry-wide initiative to reduce any impact that direct mail has on the environment. The Green 15 enforces 15 baseline business practices across all areas of the direct mail life-cycle that companies must adhere to when producing campaigns in order to improve environmental performance. All of which have combined to make direct mail an environmentally-viable choice when considering your marketing strategy.

While we thoroughly advocate the use of email marketing as part of a fully integrated cross media campaign, given the rise of things like smartphone use, as a stand-alone marketing method is one that is easily dismissed by the recipient. Think about it: we all receive endless emails and only give very short shrift to 90% of them. It is so easy for campaigns to wind up in the junk e-mail folder, never to be seen again and with it goes your hard work. That is never the case when direct mail is integrated correctly.

 There is nothing quite so creative as a direct mail campaign; memorable items that tie in with your brand really do make an impact on the mind of potential customers in a far more meaningful way than just another email. For more information on what a well-crafted direct mail campaign can do for your business, please contact Romax