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How Postcard Magnets Save The Date

It’s one of the most challenging marketing assignments out there:

How to get hundreds of alumni to come together at a certain time and place?

Alumni are not an easy group to gather.   First of all, they’re scattered just about everywhere.  Second, they’re all doing their own thing:  some are trawling for shrimp and some are running billion dollar conglomerates.

So do you send an email and hope for the best?  Nope.  At least according to alumni organizers at the nation’s leading colleges.

When there’s an important event coming, alumni event planners have a go-to tool for maximizing attendance:  Save The Date postcard magnet mailers.

Hmmm.  Is there something that other marketers should know? Yep.

Because what makes postcard magnet mailers extremely effective for college alumni groups, also makes them effective for anyone else with a message that needs to be seen.

Postcard magnets are really two promotions in one: a full-color, plastic laminated postcard that makes it into a mailbox, and a magnet attached that makes it to the fridge or file cabinet.

Most other ways to communicate, from letters to emails, just get lost in the shuffle.

But postcard magnets work almost magically.  With a good mailing list, they reach a targeted audience.  With good graphics,  they grab attention.  And with an appealing or useful message they’re kept in the home or office and are seen dozens of times per day.

What would you have to pay for a TV ad with that kind of coverage?  Unless you’re GE or Coke, you probably don’t have enough.

But you probably can afford a postcard, a magnet and some bulk-rate postage.

So that’s why when it’s important to reach the right people with the right message, those alumni organizations may still have something to teach us.

Another marketing tip from magnetbyMail.com, your source for custom imprinted magnet mailers.