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Ranking Media for Direct Marketing Response Rates By Campaign Objective

 

 

 

 

Overall Response

Direct Order

Lead Generation

Traffic Building

Fundraising

(Ranking From Most Effective <Top of Column> to Least Effective <Bottom of Column>)

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Telephone

Telephone

Telephone

Catalog

Telephone

TV Infomercials*

Co-op/Shared Mail

TV Infomercials*

Telephone

Direct Mail

Coupons

Coupons

Dimensional Mail

Radio

Dimensional Mail

Co-op/Shared Mail

Catalogs

Banner Advertising

Postcards

E-Mail

Dimensional Mail

Banner Ads

E-Mail

E-Mail

 

Catalog

Magazine Blow-ins

Magazine Space Ads

Dimensional Mail

 

Magazine Blow-ins

Statement Stuffers

Statement Stuffers

 

 

Newspaper Space Ads

Magazine Space Ads

Radio

 

 

E-mail

E-mail

 

 

 

Statement Stuffers

TV Infomercials*

 

 

 

Magazine Space Ads

 

 

 

 

* Size of Sampling too small statistically to draw conclusions

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Comparing Telephone with Email - Telephone Response Rates Exceeded Email Rates as follows:

 

 

 

 

Overall Response

Direct Order

Lead Generation

Traffic Building

Fundraising

304%

277%

252%

194%

736%

 

 

 

 

 

Source: October, 2005 by The Direct Marketing Association, Inc. ISBN: 1-931361-61-4