To be successful with direct mail letters and to make money off internet, there are several strategies you can try to enlarge response rates:
1. At the top of your sales letter, make a strong headline that states the most essential profit you are suggesting. This headline should be bold and a larger font size than the font size you choose for the body text in your sales letter.
2. When creating your sales letter, use a friendly conversational phrases. Do not try to write “corporate” where you mention large words and try to impress your prospects with your command of the English language. All that doesn?t attract people. Instead, write your sales letter as if you were talking to your best friend.
3. Use a P.S. in your letter and restate your most power advantage and sales offer in it. Most people will read a P.S. first before reading the sales letter, so it is essential to make your P.S. have quite strong sales message and a call to action.
4. Your sales letter needs to explain the advantages your potential client will get. Understand that everybody cares about one thing in life - “What?s in it for me?” Put yourself in your customer?s shoes and ask yourself, “If I was receiving this letter, why would I wish to purchase the product or service being sold? What?s in it for me?”
5. Ask your prospect to take action such as to call you for more information, to look at your website, to fill in and order form and mail you a check, etc. If you do not ask your prospects to take part, they won?t.
6. To get your sales letter opened, employ an ordinary white business envelope and handwrite the recipient?s name and address. Yes, this consumes considerable piece of time than using mailing labels, but mailing labels look like junk mail! The main key in a successful direct mail business is to get your envelope opened, and by handwriting the recipient?s name and address, you can almost guarantee that your envelope will be opened.
7. Make your envelope “lumpy” by enclosing a small, inexpensive free gift. Be sure the present has your company name and contact information on it and that the present is something a person would desire to keep - like a nice pen, a good highlighter, etc. And, the promo gift should have your company information on it ? your company name, phone number, and website address.
8. Here is the most vital direct mail trick. Repetition. You will not do well with your direct mail campaign if you just send out cards or letters. Each prospect on your contact list must be contacted a minimum of three to six times during a 12-month term. Properly used, direct mail may be one of the most efficient and cost-efficient marketing strategies you’ll ever find for your business.


