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#31 (permalink)   10-22-2009 Kim Dixon New Member   Join Date: Oct 2009 Posts: 24 Re: Post Card mailing Originally Posted by Office Goddess There are lots of ways to target new businesses only. We have a local business paper that publishes a listing of Secretary of State filings monthly and our main newspaper has them daily in the legal classifieds section. You can manually cull this information from these types of sources with just a little patience and time. Try searching this forum for 'mailing list' and you will find lots of threads on ways to get/create mailing lists for free. Thanks I'm going to do some searching and going to try this today!

#32 (permalink)   10-22-2009 AngelicaP33 Contributing Member Company name: GRIP Bookkeeping Services   Join Date: Jul 2009 Location: New Mexico Posts: 106 Blog Entries: 1 Re: Post Card mailing I just ordered my postcards about a 100 to start off with but I really don't have a mailing list yet. I was just going to start off by mailing them locally to the small businesses here in town then go from there. I hope I get some leads! __________________ Angelica, Let Me Get A GRIP On Your Books! www.mygripbookkeepingservices.com

#33 (permalink)   10-22-2009 Excel Virtual Services Contributing Member   Join Date: Oct 2009 Location: Beacon, NY Posts: 193 Re: Post Card mailing Actually this is a great way to get leads. Good luck!

#34 (permalink)   10-27-2009 bridgeland Contributing Member Company name: Bridgeland Administration Services My latest Twitter: Top 10 Facebook apps for fan engagement and buildi...   Join Date: Jul 2009 Location: Capalaba, Qld, Australia Posts: 57 Re: Post Card mailing I am currently waiting for my postcards to be printed and sent to me. I live in Australia, and have targeted the small businesses in my local area. Should postcards be addressed and posted, or can delivering them in a mailbox drop work? As these have taken up a chunk of my marketing budget for the month, I don't want to get it wrong.

#35 (permalink)   10-27-2009 micarter Contributing Member Company name: MyPointAssist   Join Date: Sep 2009 Location: Lafayette, LA Posts: 144 Re: Post Card mailing Hi Bridgeland, Although most of the time I have done delivery of the postcards through the post I have also been in the situtation were the only thing I could do was to hand delivery them. I got a few responses that way as well. (This is from another business) Since you are marketing to businesses it may be even better to hand deliver the postcard and have some face to face time with the potenial clients. In the past when I wanted to get clents for my business I went to some extreme as well and I would bake cookies wrap them up in a pretty package and attach my flyer or postcard to it with a bow and hand deliver that. That gave me the best results. Hope this helps some! Good Luck.

#36 (permalink)   10-27-2009 Office Goddess Senior Member Company name: The Virtual Office Goddess, LLC   Join Date: Aug 2007 Location: Boulder, CO Posts: 2,885 Re: Post Card mailing Originally Posted by bridgeland I am currently waiting for my postcards to be printed and sent to me. I live in Australia, and have targeted the small businesses in my local area. Should postcards be addressed and posted, or can delivering them in a mailbox drop work? As these have taken up a chunk of my marketing budget for the month, I don't want to get it wrong. In the US, it is illegal to deposit ANYTHING in a mailbox; only the postal service is allowed to do so. That being said, I like the idea of hand-delivering a 'goody' with your postcard as an opportunity to meet your potential clients. Be sure and 'drill down' to your target market to minimize the expense. __________________ Lily Chambers, The Virtual Office Goddess, LLC Author "How to Do Your Own Small Business Bookkeeping"

#37 (permalink)   11-06-2009 Kim Dixon New Member   Join Date: Oct 2009 Posts: 24 Re: Post Card mailing I so excited! I go to pick up my postcards today from the printer! I've been working on a mailing list all this morning! I'll keep you posted on my response in the next week!! Thanks for all the advise so far!

#38 (permalink)   11-06-2009 King Business Management Contributing Member Company name: King Business Management   Join Date: Aug 2009 Location: Bothell, WA Posts: 137 Re: Post Card mailing CONGRATULATIONS! What a thrilling experience. Good luck. __________________ Prins Cowin, CPS/CAP, Virtual Business Manager www.KingBusinessManagement.com