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Direct marketing is a form of advertising where organizations communicate directly to customers through a variety of
media including cell phone text messaging, email, websites, online adverts, database marketing, fliers, catalog distribution,
promotional letters and targeted television, newspaper and magazine advertisements as well as outdoor advertising. Among
practitioners, it is also known as direct response.
The prevalence of direct marketing and the unwelcome nature of some communications has led to regulations and laws such
as the CAN-SPAM Act, requiring that consumers in the United States be allowed to opt out.
Popularity
A 2010 study by the Direct Marketing Association reports that in 2010, marketers—commercial and nonprofit—spent $153.3
billion on direct marketing, which accounted for 54.2% of all ad expenditures in the United States. Measured against total US
sales, these advertising expenditures generated approximately $1.798 trillion in incremental sales. In 2010, direct marketing
accounted for 8.3% of total US gross domestic product. In 2010, there were 1.4 million direct marketing employees in the US.
Their collective sales efforts directly supported 8.4 million other jobs, accounting for a total of 9.8 million US jobs.
Benefits of direct marketing
Direct marketing is attractive to many marketers because its positive results can be measured directly. For example, if
a marketer sends out 1,000 solicitations by mail and 100 respond to the promotion, the marketer can say with confidence that
campaign led directly to 10% direct responses. This metric is known as the 'response rate,' and it is one of many clearly
quantifiable success metrics employed by direct marketers. In contrast, general advertising uses indirect measurements, such as
awareness or engagement, since there is no direct response from a consumer. Measurement of results is a fundamental element in
successful direct marketing.
One of the other significant benefits of Direct Marketing is, it enables promoting products or services that might not
have a strong brand. Products or service with a sound value proposition, matched with an attractive offer, supported with
effective communication, delivered through a suitable direct marketing channel and targeting the relevant customer segment can
result in a very effective cost of acquisition albeit the brand might be relatively unknown. Relative to other channels of
distribution (say retailing) Direct Marketing as a practice principally relies on the proposition, offer, communication, choice
of channel and the target customer and so less dependent on the brand strength.
The Internet has made it easier for marketing managers to measure the results of a campaign. This is often achieved by
using a specific website landing page directly relating to the promotional material. A call to action will ask the customer to
visit the landing page, and the effectiveness of the campaign can be measured by taking the number of promotional messages
distributed and dividing it into the number of responses. Another way to measure the results is to compare the projected sales
or generated leads for a given term with the actual sales or leads after a direct advertising campaign.
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