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Marketing and Color

Deliver Magazine talked to Cynthia Cornell a color researcher with Color Communications. She offered some loose meanings for colors.

Blue-based reds (like raspberry) are associated with more expensive products

Yellow based reds (like tomato) are imagined to be less expensive

Orange can play up affordability

Yellow is the first color the eye sees, when it is used with a [...]

For Designers

As you work on putting together your direct mail piece, one designer shares his rules. Some of them may be valid for you, others maybe not. We just want to get you started.

From: Design Elements: A Graphic Style Manual by Timothy Samara

Have a concept
Communicate don’t [...]

Postcard Design Idea Sparks

We found some ideas about postcard design at this site from Chuck Green on Ideabook.com.

What is the purpose of a post card?

“Greetings from” and rotating racks decorated with pictures of places great and small—those are the type of messages associated with post cards. The marketing potential of a simple card is unbounded. You can show [...]

On Creativity

Creativity Sparks

Do something mindless (take a long drive on familiar roads, do housework or yard work, take a long bike ride or walk)
Find diversity as in thinking, images, people (colleges, libraries, museums, city parks…)
Fill your head (Read books, newspapers, magazines, surf the Internet, watch movies, documentaries, listen to radio, talk to people)
Take a lesson from [...]

Creative Planning To Strengthen Your Marketing

Target Marketing Magazine included some great tips and considerations for creative planning as a part of suggestions for campaign planning meetings. We want to help you think about these as you plan your Direct Marketing.

The Offer

Remember, an offer can be a full-price product with special value.

Why was it created?
What problem will it solve for your [...]

Direct Mail Hot Spots

Target Marketing Magazine published a great article a couple of years ago about how readers eyes move around a mail piece. We all do this so many times without thinking.

A hot spot is where your eye goes first when you look at a postcard, outer envelope, catalog spread, direct mail letter, space ad or even [...]

The Power of Touch

Real Simple Magazine printed an extract of research results from The University of Wisconsin-Madison that found that 30 seconds is all you need to feel attached to an item after touching it. Research says you are 39 percent more likely to buy an item you touch as opposed to one you never handle.

Retailers, is there [...]