Clean It Up
UK Floor Cleaning Forum => Carpet Cleaning Forum => Topic started by: Ian Gourlay on March 12, 2012, 09:49:17 am
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There has been a great deal written over the past month about database marketing. More than I ever recall before.
But planning my own relaunch later in the year I am wondering if there are any ways of reducing postage costs etc.
I think I am correct in the assumption TNT are only interested vast quantities not thousands.
Could a local company start up to deliver local business mail, or do the post office have to do the last mile.
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How much mail do you send??
You could consider pitney bowes for a franking machine. There can be a fair bit to be saved providing you send enough mail.
http://www.frankyourmail.info/ver1/?gclid=CJPL8d6X4a4CFVEjfAodVUp2ZA
Hope this may help.
Fran.
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We use www.cfhdocmail.com, its quick and you save on printing and labour costs, as you just upload your letter or postcard + database and they do the rest, all for the cost of normal postage.
Its a great way to save time and get professionally printed letters and cards without too much fuss, plus you can edit and change content quickly qnd regularly so no waste.
Regards
Steve
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why post? ring them tell them you've recovered from you illness but have enormous medical bills so if they need any cleaning doing you are available. add a couple of sickly coughs as you speak and you will tug at their heart strings
but seriously a phone call would get the most success
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How much mail do you send??
You could consider pitney bowes for a franking machine. There can be a fair bit to be saved providing you send enough mail.
http://www.frankyourmail.info/ver1/?gclid=CJPL8d6X4a4CFVEjfAodVUp2ZA
Hope this may help.
Fran.
We had one cost a small fortune !
Its cheaper then stamps initially but once you factor in ink etc for us it worked out far more expensive.
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Depends how many you are doing, to make it cost effective you need to do several thousand at a time.
We have a franking machine from neo-post, on large mailers no one wants to stick stamps its very time consuming, so we use this, we get our ink cartridge at half the price neo-post would charge us from another supplier.
Its makes any mail out look more professional as well.
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We've tried several but settled with CFHDocmail and think it's great, not as cheap as some but service great, interface and features realy good, there are some great ways to create ready to go templates and also use custom merge fields from your database. What I like is no minimum, you can send ONE letter for the discounted rate. If you can do it almost automatically from within your 'system' that's even better of course ;)
Mike's hit the nail on the head though, call people, you'll get an amazing response I'm sure. I'd be tempted to send a mailshot and follow it up with a phone call.
Al.
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buy your stamps now before they go up at the end of the month
Terry
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Best way of cutting postage costs is don't send so many letters.
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Best way of cutting postage costs is don't send so many letters.
;D ;D
Like Steve, we also use www.cfhdocmail.com now and again. The price is incredible. For an A5 double sided colour glossy card - including postage is 33p each, ok plus vat but its far cheaper than arranging printing from elsewhere and THEN arranging postage @ 32p :o
No brainer really. In fact we sent one last week as a trial for some of our custys and got a very nice response 8) It was just a case of merging the type of clients we wanted to target from our system (on this occasion we did it by what type of service some of them had), then uploading this info to their website. It was easy and very effective.
Will definately be using them again.
Cheers
Kev
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can someone add me to there next email list for docmail, would like to see the quality. address on tacca site, just type in CW8 in search.
chears big ears. ;D
hey ya don't ask, ya never know.
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Just ring them up Derek, and ask for a sample A5. Thats how I heard about them - they sent me a card randomly touting for business (had the prices on etc), its good though as its the same that custys get.
If you dont get any joy, let me know and I'll post it to ya!
Kev
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post me one, i'd like to have a nosy at what guys are sending out, ;D
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derek not sure wether docmail still do it but when i started to us them you got 2 quid free credit . use this to have a practice and send jim and billy a letter lol
i am not great on computers and once i got the hang of the docmail system i find it great . used in conjunction with cleaners mate makes cleaners mate even more valuable than it already is.
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Derek if you do send me a letter, make sure you text Shaun Ashmore, so he can send a semaphore message to Mike Halliday, who can morse code a signal on to Marc D'Alcorn who'll probably break his leg and get arrested sending a text to Clinton, who can e-mail Billy Russel, who can put up a post on here, to tell me I've got a letter coming!
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There is some uncertainty when postage prices will go up.
I was in the post office today and they said that a 1st class stamp will be going from .46 to .75p :o
2nd class from .36 to .55p :o. I said your joking! she said thats what everone says ;D
I'll soon be sending out reminders but think I'll be getting me stamps this week. Perhaps a good idea to invest all my savings on postage stamps and cash them in when I retire ;D
Post office lady says not sure if they will be going up end of march or later?
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Derek if you do send me a letter, make sure you text Shaun Ashmore, so he can send a semaphore message to Mike Halliday, who can morse code a signal on to Marc D'Alcorn who'll probably break his leg and get arrested sending a text to Clinton, who can e-mail Billy Russel, who can put up a post on here, to tell me I've got a letter coming!
so much easier just to facebook jim, your so last year. ;D
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I think Jims worn out you could say he's flagging ;D get it?
I was going to put the mrs's knickers on a big stick to use as a flag but I nearly got electricuted on that telephone post !
Shaun
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Fair play to Jim!!!! he's putting his 15 fingers to good use!!! hell be training his 13 webbed toes next!!!!!
;D ;D ;D
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Just been in Post Office with a parcel and woman behind counter confirmed letter 2nd Class is going up to 55p and 1st Class up to 60p!
How the hell that is justified I do not know. Wonder what that will make Docmail and the like put their prices up to?
What's coming next I guess is another hike in the Door to Door Leaflet cost too!?!?
Makes me even more motivated to collect more emails and use them for marketing.
Al.
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Just been in Post Office with a parcel and woman behind counter confirmed letter 2nd Class is going up to 55p and 1st Class up to 60p!
How the hell that is justified I do not know. Wonder what that will make Docmail and the like put their prices up to?
What's coming next I guess is another hike in the Door to Door Leaflet cost too!?!?
Makes me even more motivated to collect more emails and use them for marketing.
Al.
naaaaa they'll just deliver 300 out of every 1000 instead of 500. ;D
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i am not great on computers and once i got the hang of the docmail system i find it great . used in conjunction with cleaners mate makes cleaners mate even more valuable than it already is.
Nice one Richard, thats the beauty of something like docmail and a good software system to upload specific data to it - choosing maybe who, when, where, service, area, value etc etc, (depending on your marketing strategy) which you obviously do - so well done.
Cheers
Kev
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Just been in Post Office with a parcel and woman behind counter confirmed letter 2nd Class is going up to 55p and 1st Class up to 60p!
How the hell that is justified I do not know. Wonder what that will make Docmail and the like put their prices up to?
What's coming next I guess is another hike in the Door to Door Leaflet cost too!?!?
Makes me even more motivated to collect more emails and use them for marketing.
Al.
naaaaa they'll just deliver 300 out of every 1000 instead of 500. ;D
JEST YE NOT!
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Do any of you guys use Mailchimp, we export email lists from our system to lists in mailchimp, looks like we'll be doing more of this too if those postage costs are right. Mailchimp also have a way to segment the list even further off line too before the upload, were looking at how we might integrate that so we can pick up and record the responses in the client record too.
The shame about Mailchimp is they've cracked down on the Free Autoresponders, used to be free up to 2000 list with 12000 emails a month, now it's limited to 500 list if you're a new sign up.
Al.