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Business Definition for: Mailing List

  • the names and addresses of a particular group of people compiled for marketing purposes. A mailing list may be compiled internally or bought or rented from an outside agency, and can be used for advertising, fundraising, news releases, or for direct mail or a mailshot. A mailing list is usually compiled for a selected group using one or more criteria, such as men between the ages of 25 and 30.

Additional Resources

Build A Direct Marketing Mailing List
Building your direct marketing mailing list carefully from the start can ensure that you have a successful direct mailing campaign. You end up with better results from the mailing, and you don't waste mailing campaign funds. But where do you get the contacts you need to compile a mailing list?...
Tags: Sales Channel, Mailing List, Direct Marketing, Marketing, Sales, Marketing Research, Advertising & Promotion
White papers
How To Find The Best Mailing List For Your Offer
This article gives some simple ways to find mailing lists that always produce highly profitable results. Implementing any successful mailing program begins by determining who will get your mail. You need to find or compile a mailing list of qualified prospects for your offer. The success of your mailing is...
Tags: Mailing List
White papers 2003-01-01
Build A Mailing List With Access 2003
The most important element in your direct marketing campaign is your mailing list. Identifying the customers you want to reach is critical for advertising your products and services. Making the information flow from you to your customers and potential customers requires managing a list that is updatable, expandable, and versatile...
Tags: Microsoft Access, Mailing List, Microsoft Corp.
White papers
How Does It Cost To Do A Mailing?
It has been seen that sometimes mailing cost a huge amount for a business. Thus, this article tries to focus upon the cost factor for mailing. Of all the considerations that go into a mailing, list testing is far and away the most critical. If you can't find market, it...
Tags: Business
White papers 2003-01-01
DMA loses fight against California mailing list tax; tax may put California titles at a competitive disadvantage - Direct Marketing Association; mailing lists rented on magnetic tape
DMA loses fight against California mailing list tax
Tags: Direct Marketing Association, DMA, mailing list, tax
Research articles 1989-11-01
New York lines up a list-use tax; DMA fights levy on list services for in-state mailers. (Direct Marketing Association)
Albany, NY - If you mail catalogs to New York residents, you may be facing a new tax on list and mailing services. The Empire State is drafting regulations that would levy a sales tax on most vendor-supplied list and mailing services used in prepar ...
Tags: Direct Marketing Association, tax
Research articles 1994-02-01
Solicitation Mailing List Application
One way of receiving bid leads is to get your company included on the Solicitation Mailing List SML of the specific buying offices likely to have a need for your product or service. The SML database lists the capabilities of businesses interested in selling to the government, and thus enables...
Tags: Mailing List, Office Depot Inc., Enterprise Software, Software, Government, Vertical Industries
Tools & templates
Defining Opt-In Email Marketing
Email marketing is nothing else but mailing lists in the end. The mailing list of an opt-in marketing campaign starts empty. The only way for an email address to get onto the list is by its owner explicitly requesting it. Marketing material is sent only with permission, and often...
Tags: Mailing List, Email Marketing, E-mail, Marketing Research, Online Communications, Marketing
White papers 2003-01-01
How to Buy a Great Mailing List
The article states that nothing is as bad as mailing to the wrong list. Poor list selection is the worst mistake one can make in direct mail. Anyone can put a direct mail piece together and drop it off at the post office (barring disgruntled post office workers wielding semi-automatics)....
Tags: Direct Mail, List Selection, Mailing List
White papers 2003-01-01
Building an Effective Mailing List
How does a person go about finding the right mailing lists that target customers? Much depends on the specifics of who the customers are and whether one is targeting businesses or consumers. But, generally speaking, this paper provides nine avenues for a person to explore to get started in the...
Tags: Entrepreneur.com Inc., Mailing List, Entrepreneurship, Management
White papers 2002-06-24
Are You Enjoying The Profits Hidden In Your Own House Mailing List?
The three most cost-effective sources of business are always the same - regardless of the type of business. They are existing customers, referrals and the business's own "house mailing list". These sources may not produce you largest block of business. However, they always produce you most profitable block of business....
Tags: Business, Mailing List
White papers 2003-01-01
AccuZIP Inc.: AccuZIP6.(prepress, accessories & supplies)
AcciZIP6 is GOLD PAVE and CASS Certified by the USPS. This software processes mailing lists to meet all USPS postal regulations and earn the maximum postal discount. AccuZIP 6 is an all-inclusive mailing list software package that verifies and standa AcciZIP6 is GOLD PAVE and CASS...
Tags: mailing list, U.S. Postal Service
Research articles 2005-11-01
The Right Way To Use Email For Marketing
There is only one 'Right' way to use email lists for marketing purposes and that is to use it with a list of prospects who have contacted you first. This is what is called an Opt-In list. What it means is the consumers have opted to include their email address...
Tags: E-mail, Marketing Research, Online Communications, Marketing
White papers 2008-01-01
Swedish Furniture Retailer Nixes Internet Postcard Marketing Strategy.(Knight Ridder/Tribune Business News)
Mar. 13--Ikea has canceled a popular online marketing campaign because consumers said they were worried it would put them on an Ikea mailing list without their permission. Mar. 13--Ikea has canceled a popular online marketing campaign because consumers said they were worried it would...
Tags: IKEA, Internet, marketing, marketing strategy
Research articles 2000-03-15
Getting there: mailing your catalogs into foreign countries may seem daunting, but read on - it might be easier than you think .... (includes related article)
Mailing your catalogs into foreign countries may seem daunting, but read on--it might be easier than you think . . . After weeks upon months of researching the demographics, buying habits and list availability of a few foreign countries, you've ...
Tags: U.S. Postal Service
Research articles 1992-03-01
Acxiom Acquires National List Protection System, Inc.; Acquisition of Nationwide Mailing List Surveillance Service Rounds Out Acxiom's Suite of Services for "The Mailer"
CONWAY, Ark.--BUSINESS WIRE--July 1, 1997--AcxiomR Corporation (Nasdaq: ACXM) announced today that it has acquired the assets of National List Protection System, Inc., NLPS for $600,000.
Tags: acquisition, Acxiom Corp., mailing list
Research articles 1997-07-01
Direct Mail Prospecting
Direct mail as a means of prospecting offers the major advantage of allowing one to reach a large number of people without being physically present. There are basically two basic kinds of direct mail strategies -- one-time mailings and "campaigns." Many experts believe that direct mailings should be followed by...
Tags: Direct Mail
White papers 2003-01-01
How do you know your mail went out? (Cover Story)
AND HOW DO YOU TRACK IT TO ITS DESTINATION? YOU HAVE DONE everything possible to insure that your mailing is going to the right people (internal list hygiene, NCOA, merge/purge, renting only CASS-certified lists, barcoding), and you're getting th AND HOW DO...
Tags: post office, Thompson, U.S. Postal Service
Research articles 1994-11-01
Fiat aims Seicento 'compact' mailing at female drivers
Fiat: mailing is styled like make-upFiat: mailing is styled like make-up
Tags: Fiat
Research articles 2002-03-21
Guess the winner. (premiums in mailing lists)
GIVE SOMETHING FREE AND YOU'LL INCREASE YOUR RESPONSE. BUT THE RIGHT FREEMIUM CAN REALLY MAKE YOUR MAILING A SUCCESS Everybody likes to get something for nothing. So any time you can afford to enclose a useful item in a mailing, test it! ...
Tags: AARP, card, mailing list, window
Research articles 1995-10-01
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