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Add Dimension to Your Mail

How lumpy mailers are helping marketers boost response rates.

By Christine Hansen

Lumps in your gravy? Not so good. But when found in direct mail, lumps generate curiosity and demand attention.

AlphaGraphics, for example, scored an impressive 21-percent response rate by including lumpy, or dimensional, mail in a …

Sold on Ice

Interview by Lara Jensen

Sports fans can access content from any number of media outlets these days, so it can take some fancy maneuvering by marketers to target them effectively. Thus far, the National Hockey League has done pretty well keeping its fans satisfied. For instance, …

The Power of Branded Publications

Interview by Pamela Oldham

Deliver® recently caught up with Dr. Samir Husni, the University of Mississippi professor and lecturer widely known as “Mr. Magazine,” to discuss the future of branded print marketing communications.

In the second of our two-part interview, Husni talks about what the future holds for catalog marketers …

“Mr. Magazine” Explains the Power of Custom Publishing

Interview by Pamela Oldham

Want to sell more products and services through your print pieces? Maybe you should stop trying so hard to simply sell.

That’s the advice of Dr. Samir Husni, one of the nation’s most highly regarded authorities on modern magazine publishing. Known widely as “Mr. Magazine,” Husni …

Why Chris Newman Has the Direct Mail World Buzzing

By Bruce Britt

Chris Newman has earned multiple awards for his work on behalf of several brands. But it’s the 28-year-old advertising maverick’s fiendishly clever array of mail campaigns for Sprint Nextel that has the direct world buzzing.

While many of his Gen-Y peers focus almost exclusively on the Internet, Newman, …

Does Return on Social Media Justify Spending?

There’s a lot of marketing buzz surrounding social media these days, but does its return justify spending? We asked marketers at both small and large businesses to weigh in.

Linda LoRe
President, Frederick’s of Hollywood Group Inc.

The real danger with social media is in marketers expecting too much from it.
What …

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