Find and Target Multi-Buyers
To summarize, you’re entitled to mail an outside rented name however many times it appears as a duplicate against the outside rented names you use for your mailing campaign.From the output of the merge/purge, you’ll have more two- than three-time multi-buyers, more three- than four-time multi-buyers and so on. The chart below shows the actual counts from a recent merge/purge. The gross number of outside names input into this merge/purge was 422,125.
- People:
- Stephen R. Lett
Steve Lett graduated from Indiana University in 1970 and immediately began his 50-year career in Direct Marketing; mainly catalogs.
Steve spent the first 25 years of his career in executive level positions at both consumer and business-to-business companies. The next 25 years have been with Lett Direct, Inc., the company Steve founded in early 1995. Lett Direct, Inc., is a catalog and internet consulting firm specializing in circulation planning, plan execution, analysis and digital marketing (Google Premier Partner).
Steve has served on the Ethics Committee of the Direct Marketing Association (DMA) and on a number of company boards, both public and private. He served on the Board of the ACMA. He has been the subject of two Harvard Business School case studies. He is the author of a book, Strategic Catalog Marketing. Steve is a past Chairman of both the Catalog Council and Business Mail Council of the DMA. He spent a few years teaching Direct Marketing at Indiana University in Bloomington, Indiana.
You can contact Steve at stevelett@lettdirect.com.
