Category Archives: Direct Mail

Will Changes to USPS Delivery Service Hurt Direct Mail Fundraising?

Elimination of Saturday delivery would be the most problematic for your direct mail fundraising program. read more >

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Incremental Gains Are Not Enough

Rather than focus on establishing new control packages, organizations tend to focus their time, attention, and valuable testing dollars in search of incremental gains from existing packages.

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You Are Only as Old as You Think You Are

Stop thinking like a hip 25-year-old and start thinking like a hip 60-year-old.
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How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Premium

I used to think premiums were a cheap way to acquire and retain donors. I was convinced that the types of donors who responded to premiums would have a low life-time-value and force us to keep upping the ante with nicer premiums until we priced ourselves out of the market.

Boy was I wrong.

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