How To Convince Your Readers To Open Your Envelope?

How do you get your target clients to open your print envelopes? More particularly, how do you get them into your envelope printing and make them want to read your collaterals inside? If you’re still asking this question even after you’ve tinkered for quite some time now with direct mail, I suppose you really do need good advice then.

How do you influence your prospects to decide to open your particular piece of mail?

Marketing groups and advertisers have been fascinated with this particular question that so many researches have been made over the years to provide a solution to this one. One researcher even suggested that there really is no exact science to it. People in general just open their print envelopes if and when they feel like it.

Another funded study dared to investigate and tried to prove that there really are existing factors that gets recipients to open their mail.

According to the study, people often gets encouraged to open an envelope printing even when it’s a promotional collateral because of three factors: a proper address and correct name spelling; the type of postage; and a return address.

That’s right. These three factors should be a light bulb for those business owners and marketers who keep on providing their recipients with mails that have enticing teasers but are lacking in the correct address and customer-name department. It’s just not enough that you design your envelope printing to be so attractive to your target market, but you also have to ensure that you get their names and addresses right. AND include a return address while you’re at it. The last one is to make sure that you get your prospects to act on your offer.

Along with the three factors, the research also noted that a misspelled name is opened more often than those with a generic title address. It also said that the standard #10 business print envelopes are more likely to be opened.

For B2B, metered mail is likely to get opened as well as that of the First Class. There’s actually no marked difference between a metered First Class and those of the standard rate. Businesses do open their envelopes every time.

Other studies, on the other hand, provide that almost three quarters of mails in business offices come in #10 white envelopes. For those who believe in posting a different size and color to stand out, it is often considered as promotional mail; hence, most have second thoughts about opening such mails.

This last advice though, comes from most marketers who have been doing direct mail for such a long time – handwritten envelopes do get the pull. So if you’re looking at ways to really get your target clients into your envelopes, add a personal touch to it. Make an effort to write the names and addresses yourself.

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Charen Smith writes articles about Internet Marketing. She has an extensive knowledge and experience when it comes to business strategies, techniques and business solutions.