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New eBook: 8 Ways to Boost Direct Marketing Response with PURLs

Curious about how you can make your Direct Marketing more effective? Do you want to know how the world’s top marketers use PURLs in their integrated marketing campaigns?

You are in luck!book

Our new eBook, 8 Ways to Boost Direct Marketing Response with PURLs, is now available to direct marketers who are looking to get better response and higher conversion by using Personalized URLs (PURLs) together with other direct marketing channels.

Personalized URLs (PURLS) allow you to connect your direct marketing with web pages reserved for each individual in your Target List – enabling you to build personal relationships with customers and prospects, closely track engagement on the individual level, and help boost Campaign ROI. As digital marketing has evolved, Integrated Marketing is no longer optional for Direct Marketers – and personalized, cross-channel experiences are the key to maximizing return on Marketing investment.

Whether you are looking to get your direct marketing out of a rut – or just get better results – our handy guide keeps it simple with essential tips for improving the success of your direct marketing campaigns.

In our new eBook, you’ll discover:
• How PURLs increase Direct Marketing response and conversion
• How and where to use personalization to maximize customer experiences and engagement
• Best practices for creating integrated marketing campaigns using PURLs

To download this eBook now, click here – and let us know what you think in the comments below!

DOWNLOAD: 8 Ways to Boost Direct Marketing Response with PURLs

EASYPURL TO SHOWCASE ALL-NEW EASYPURL 7.1 PLATFORM AT DSCOOP 8 IN NASHVILLE

EASYPURL TO SHOWCASE ALL-NEW EASYPURL 7.1 PLATFORM AT DSCOOP 8 IN NASHVILLE

Easypurl, the industry-leading provider of integrated multichannel marketing solutions and services to the marketing service provider industry will be attending the DSCOOP8 Annual Conference in Nashville to announce the upcoming version of the Easypurl Marketing Automation platform – Easypurl 7.1.

Easypurl will be celebrating its returning to DSCOOP by showcasing its range of solutions – including the all-new Easypurl 7.1 Multichannel Marketing Campaign Management platform – and by giving away FREE access to qualified attendees.

“We are very excited to participate in this year’s DSCOOP8,” says CEO Tej Kohli. “This year represents the greatest opportunity for printers and MSP’s to take advantage of the growth and adoption of integrated marketing.”

For more information about how you can get FREE access to Easypurl 7 at DSCOOP, stop by Solutions Showcase booth #706. Also, you can see how the upcoming Easypurl 7.1 can make your next integrated marketing initiative Easy — with built-in multichannel campaign management, customer experience marketing capabilities, and more.

Also, attend our in-depth Gold Partner Session on “Profiting from Multichannel Marketing Automation Programs” on Friday, February 22 at 1:15PM CST. In this presentation, through live case studies, you will learn the best practices of helping your customers implement the appropriate strategies to maximize their outcomes.

Want to see for yourself how the upcoming Easypurl 7.1 will transform marketing for printers and marketing service providers around the US and the World – including your next marketing initiative? Here is your chance! Register for DSCOOP today, to take advantage of our FREE offer to qualified attendees!

Easypurl unveils new 1:1 marketing automation platform at On Demand Expo

Easypurl Booth#303Easypurl, the industry leading provider of integrated marketing software that includes PURLs, Personalized QR Codes and Dynamic Landing Pages is excited to launch the latest version of its 1:1 marketing platform – Easypurl 7.

Easypurl 7 is the company’s most powerful integrated marketing software suite yet. It leverages over four years of research and development by Easypurl Labs and the experience gained from over forty thousand campaigns launched by thousands of Easypurl users around the world.

Every aspect of the software suite has been upgraded – from the breathtaking new User Interface which is now designed in the latest HTML5 standards and is fully cross-device compatible to the company’s popular Dynamic Landing Page design tools which have been enhanced to provide the most feature-rich and flexible capabilities yet. For a full list of features and to learn more visit www.easypurl.com.

“We are excited to showcase our new software and launch it at On Demand in New York City”, said Tej Kohli, CEO “NYC hosts some of the world’s best marketers and agencies, and we’re also proud to call it home“

In addition, for the first time in the company’s history, Easypurl will now deliver multiple editions of its software for different user types. In response to the diverse needs of Print Communication providers, Agencies and Enterprise users, Easypurl will now provide both a ‘Professional’ edition and an ‘Enterprise’ edition.

Easypurl’s revolutionary cross-media reporting dashboard has also been further enhanced to provide integrated Social Media and viral marketing reports. It even offers Direct Mail delivery analysis via intelligent mail barcode tracking and powerful geographical charting of data.

“Easypurl 7 is more than an upgrade, it is a brand new way to look at cross-media marketing”, said Mr. Steven Amiel, Executive Vice President of Sales and Marketing. “In our Enterprise edition, we have expanded the capabilities to include sought-after Marketing Automation features such as Lead Nurturing, Lead Management and CRM integration right out-of-the-box …creating a whole new value proposition for Sales and Marketing teams.”

Visit Easypurl at booth#303 at On Demand Expo in the Javitz Center, New York City on June 13-14, 2012.

About Easypurl

Easypurl is the leading provider of cross-media marketing software and services, and is a complete online solutions provider for Personalized URLs (PURLs), Dynamic Landing Pages, Email Marketing,
QR Codes and Postal Tracking with Intelligent Mail Barcodes (IMB). Easypurl is headquartered in New York City. For more information, visit http://www.easypurl.com.

About On Demand

For over 18 years ON DEMAND Exposition has been the preeminent event for marketing professionals, agencies, commercial printers, publishers and in-plant printing professionals. The 2012 event will continue to showcase the many facets of the integrated marketing industry, while placing greater emphasis on the practical applications on real-world multi-channel marketing. For registration and event info visit http://www.ondemandexpo.com

Make your next direct mail campaign go Viral with Easypurl SocialShare

Mobile Marketing and Social Media  - buzzwords that are rocking the marketing industry.

The current marketing landscape is turning social media and mobile entrepreneurs into instant billionaires while leaving the average marketing professional scratching their heads…

Makes you wonder – where does direct mail or traditional direct marketing fit… or does it?

Easypurl helps answer that question.

Introducing Easypurl SocialShare – a momentous leap in integrated marketing that enables you to extend the reach of your direct mail via social media sites such as Facebook, Twitter, and 200+ social platforms – creating a viral boost for your direct marketing campaign.

How do we do this? Its quite elementary really – we locked several engineers from the Andromeda Galaxy, along with our social media marketing team, into our lab for several years… and voila, Easypurl SocialShare was born.

SocialShare redefines the term “Viral Boost”.

We’ve already established the efficacy of PURLs. For instance you know that by connecting your Direct Mail to a personalized Landing Page (with PURLs or QR Codes) you boost responses. Easypurl SocialShare makes this step into a giant leap by enabling your Direct Marketing recipients to dynamically create PURLs and broadcast them to their Facebook friends and Twitter followers. Simply put SocialShare creates an unstoppable viral effect from your direct marketing campaigns.

Hope the inventory manager stocked up well this month because the marketing department (A.K.A., YOU) just made your direct mail go viral and your CEO grin from ear-to-ear.

Just another chapter from the Easypurl Playbook.

As always keep the conversation going,

Tej Kohli, CEO
Easypurl, Inc.

Can PURLs Increase Response Rates in Political DM Campaigns? YES WE CAN!

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PURL technology has been remarkably successfully in political fundraising, lobbying, volunteering, and community building campaigns.  One of the most effective PURL implementations we’ve seen in the political sphere is in polling and survey campaigns.  With higher response rates, lower error margins, and reduced costs, local and national politicians alike have used PURLs to revolutionize polling communications with their constituents.

With dozens of political campaigns under our belt here at Easypurl, let’s take a look at a successful polling campaign launched by a state representative.  The campaign objective was to establish important voting issues and topics while reducing the time and cost of utilizing phone banks for survey data collection.

Campaign Overview:

  • Mail sent:  5,000 pieces
  • Visitors:  394
  • Responses:   341
  • Response Rate:  6.82%
  • Site Conversion Rate:  86.55%

The campaign was 1/3 the cost of a phone bank survey, and the Easypurl reseller (a regional print shop) generated a 60% profit margin on the cross-media campaign (compared to 20% for the campaign printing.

Some other remarkable campaign statistics:

Better Response rates – approaching 7% vs. <1% for traditional media

What is particularly significant here is that the massive response rate boost demonstrates that campaigns that only offer mail-in cards as a response option are loosing substantial response potential in today’s ‘connected’ digital age.

Improved Predictability –  ~ 0.30% error margin vs.  5%-12% error margin for phone bank.

This can be attributed to the objective method of polling on a survey page as compared to a human (phone operator) who may phrase a question with some bias, intentionally or otherwise. Reducing the need to digitize responses also help eliminate errors. Improving the response rates also provides more data and better statistical significance to the data collected.

In summary, if you wish to leverage the best possible ROI and outcome for your Campaigns, it has become necessary to provide survey respondents with an efficient response mechanism. There is no better (and inexpensive way) to accomplish this than with PURLs and dynamic /intelligent survey pages.

Easypurl CEO to Present Award-Winning PURL Campaign at Graph Expo

NEW YORK, September 7, 2011 –  Easypurl, the leader in personalized, cross-media communication, has been invited to present an award-winning PURL case study at Graph Expo in Chicago.  The session, “PURLs that Generate Strong Marketing Results,” will be presented by Easypurl CEO Tej Kohli and will take place in the Graph Expo Theater on Tuesday, September 13th.
In this session, attendees will learn the steps necessary to create an effective PURL campaign. Attendees will also see case study highlights of a campaign executed by Cox Cable that recorded an astounding 42.3 percent response rate. Attendees can expect to learn:

• What kind of creative and format was used to showcase both the PURL and the QR code
• How campaign timing was used between landing date of mail piece and subsequent emails
• How landing pages were personalized in order to gather contact information
• Surveys were also incorporated into the multiple landing page design
• Back-end measurement and results are revealed to not only to show the outstanding ROI, but the power of reporting

The Graph Expo Theater is a highly interactive learning center that offers a robust daily schedule of free sessions on a variety of today’s hottest business-building strategies, presented by subject-experts and thought leaders in their field.

Easypurl to Unveil Smartphone and Tablet-Ready Reporting Dashboard at Graph Expo 2011

NEW YORK, September 7, 2011 –  Easypurl, the leader in personalized, cross-media communication, will be unveiling a stunning new reporting dashboard at Graph Expo in Chicago next week.  The robust smartphone and tablet-ready reporting and analytics dashboard will display multiple key performance indicators across all Personalized URL, QR code, Dynamic Landing Page, and Social media campaigns.

The interactive, real-time reporting allows for detailed engagement and conversion analysis, allowing marketers to make adjustments to campaigns on the fly with the touch of a finger.  To celebrate the launch of the iPad and tablet-ready reporting dashboard, Easypurl is giving away FREE iPad 2′s to the first 50 new Easypurl subscribers who purchase a 1-year Easypurl subscription at the show.  For more information, Graph Expo attendees can visit Booth #3865.

Graph Expo, taking place in Chicago from September 11-14, is where top executives come to learn, network and make informed intelligent purchasing decisions. From design to delivery, attendees will see the full spectrum of equipment, products and services for printers and marketing professionals.

Easypurl Launches SocialShare, Connecting Direct Mail with Social Media

NEW YORK, September 2, 2011 – – Easypurl, the leader in personalized, cross-media communication, is proud to announce the release of Easypurl SocialShare,  a revolutionary way for marketers to link cross-media marketing campaigns to social media.  Easypurl SocialShare integrates cross-media marketing tools such as Personalized URLs, Dynamic Landing Pages, QR Codes and Variable Email to the web’s most popular social media websites.  This integration allows campaign recipients to act as brand ambassadors, and share their PURLs or GURLs with a single click.  Marketers can see the effectiveness of their campaigns with a powerful reporting dashboard and social sharing map.


“With Easypurl SocialShare, marketing campaigns created with Easypurl have the potential to reach millions of businesses and consumers, and even go viral, by tapping into the ever-expanding social media space. It’s a direct marketer’s dream come true,” explained Keegan St. Onge-May, Marketing Manager at Easypurl. “So far, we’ve seen customers use this tool to integrate their PURL marketing campaigns with Facebook, Twitter and dozens of other social media platforms, and I’m sure we’ll see additional innovative uses in coming weeks.”

Easypurl SocialShare’s launch comes after significant research and development by Easypurl Labs, and aims to broaden the impact of marketing messages and campaigns run by Easypurl clients.  “Adding social media connectivity to our cross-media platform raises the stakes significantly,” said Paul Mitchell, National Sales Director at Easypurl.com. “Our clients are now armed with a powerful tool to help them close more business while generating greater value for their customers.”

Easypurl & Westland Printers Team Up at InterACT! Virtual Conference & Expo

Easypurl and Westland Printers are teaming up tomorrow (August 23rd) to co-present an award winning Cox Cable PURL case study.  This highly successful direct mail campaign features the latest and greatest of cross media marketing. By utilizing eye catching multi-dimensional mailers, PURLS, Personalized QR codes, Dynamic Landing Pages, and Triggered Emails, they were able to achieve an outstanding 42.3 percent response rate.

Register here for InterACT! – our session begins at 1 PM sharp.  Those who check out this session will get an insider look at:

  • What format and creative were used to showcase both PURL and QR codes
  • How timing played a crucial role in this campaign– making sure an appropriate amount of time had passed between the initial direct mailer and subsequent follow-up email.
  • How the personalized landing pages were designed to gather crucial contact information.
  • How surveys were incorporated into the multiple landing page design.
  • How back-end measurement and results proved not only to show accurately portray outstanding ROI, but the power and importance of reporting.

Target Marketing and Printing Impressions are proud to present InterACT!, a Virtual Conference & Expo. Register for this FREE virtual event today!

 

Cultured PURLs: Personalized URLs and Higher Education

For high school seniors, the deadline to choose their institute of higher education is rapidly approaching.   For the last 1-2 years, these students have been aggressively marketed to, often receiving several direct mail pieces on a daily basis.  College admission offices spend huge portions of their budgets on direct marketing – with their pieces often getting lost in stacks of mail on the kitchen counter.  The question then becomes – how can we make our message stand out without doubling or tripling the cost of our mailer?  Many schools have answered this question with Personalized URLs, and experienced incredible boosts in their response rates and ROI.  The value of using PURLS for higher education admission campaigns goes far beyond simply saving money.

Nowadays, most prospective students complete the college admission process online. Not only can students begin the search for their perfect fit online, numerous resources allow them to take surveys to compare schools, send test scores, and actually apply online as well.

Direct mail remains an effective channel – and adding PURLs allows colleges to stand out with  an interactive and personalized line of communication, ultimately making the largest possible impact possible.  Using data from admission testing companies, colleges can dynamically serve landing page content based on the student’s gender, potential fields of study, test scores, etc.   The PURLs will help them gather additional intelligence about their target audience, as well as track and analyze campaign results.

Below is one creative example of a Personalized direct mail piece:

Salem College Case Study – from DirectMarketingIQ.com

Salem College was particularly successful when adding PURLs to their admission marketing campaigns.  By adding a PURL to their direct mail piece, they generated a 4.4% response rate.   That’s a 308% increase from the year before, despite the fact that they sent out 20% less mail!  And 25% of these responders ended up enrolling at Salem College.

PURLS tend to be incredibly successful for targeting prospective college students and young people in general. Have you seen other successful PURL campaigns aimed marketing towards younger generations? Comment about it bellow and don’t forget to follow us on twitter @EasyPURL_NYC