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Catalog Direct Marketing Services...

Hansel Group Marketing offers circulation management and catalog marketing analysis services designed to reduce costs and improve the productivity and profitability of your catalog business.  For creative services such as photography and catalog design, we have teamed up with carefully selected partners to provide you with a complete package.


Catalog Circulation Services

  • Develop detailed catalog circulation plans (both short term and long term) designed to meet financial and strategic objectives
  • Estimate catalog sales and forecast orders
  • Assess current mailing approach
  • Determine catalog breakeven figures
  • Compile catalog response analysis reports
  • Catalog and website proofreading services
  • Segment customer house file to maximize sales
  • Quarterly summaries of catalog/email circulation and marketing results

Catalog Marketing Services

  • Set up customer acquisition programs designed to grow the house file in a cost-effective manner
  • List rental recommendations and order placement
  • Co-op database assistance
  • Effective customer retention tactics designed to encourage additional orders from your best customers
  • Strategies for successful customer reactivation programs aimed at converting your inactive shoppers into valuable, revenue-generating buyers
  • Plan, implement and evaluate catalog test and control groups devised to maximize sales and increase response
  • Calculate lifetime value and determine most effective use of marketing budget
  • Review multi channel contact strategy and recommend best practices
  • Identify additional sales opportunities using programs such as blow-ins, bounce backs, and package inserts
  • ROI analysis of all direct marketing and advertising efforts
  • Research/evaluate Google key words to improve web site traffic

Catalog Mailing Management

  • Develop catalog mail plans including list rentals
  • Oversee and manage catalog mailings
  • Merge/purge coordination and list hygiene scheduling
  • Evaluate list selection, dedupe process, and list hierarchy
  • Coordinate mail tapes, direct entry trucking, and postage estimates with printer
  • Review inkjet simulation reports
  • Analysis of catalog results

Email Campaigns

We take an analytical approach to running email campaigns by using classic direct marketing techniques designed to maximize open and click-through rates.
  • Plan annual email campaign schedule and coordinate with catalog drops and retail events to maximize impact on response
  • Segment email house file based on campaign objectives
  • Test email tracking links
  • Execute and evaluate email blast results

The Essential Competitive Analysis

Whether you're launching a new title or simply need to keep tabs on the competition, it is vital that you have a keen understanding of the best practices in your market when it comes to managing website and inbound phone orders.
Identify your competitors' strategies for managing order upsells, package inserts, order confirmations, out-of-stock situations, package presentations, gift wrap options, order tracking, and other forms of customer communication.  Stay ahead of the game by requesting a competitive analysis report.  Call today for a quote.

Call Center Remote Monitoring

Outsourcing your call center needs is an important decision that should not be taken lightly.  Yes, it can be a cost-effective means of taking inbound orders, but are you leaving your customers with a favorable impression of your company?

One of the keys to success is using remote monitoring to ensure that the agents answering your customer calls are knowledgeable and friendly.  Are they projecting the right image to your customer? Are catalog source codes being captured? If you are unable to answer yes to all of these questions, then you need to contact us today.

We have a detailed checklist that we use to grade the reps on their performance.  Make sure you have an unbiased review of your catalog call center operations by requesting our remote monitoring services. You'll receive a report summarizing our findings along with our recommendations.

Creative Services

  • Quotes for printing and paper, along with postage estimates
  • Catalog layout and design quotes
  • Photography estimates
   
  What You Can Expect...
 
Hansel Group Marketing provides insightful catalog marketing analysis based on extensive hands-on experience.  We listen to your needs, impart honest yet objective feedback,  and work within your budget to deliver the results you want.

Catalog marketing expectations are met...

What can you expect?  A detailed catalog mail plan, carefully selected list rental recommendations, sales projections,  innovative catalog marketing ideas, catalog breakeven analysis, budget forecasting, best-of-industry practices, key metrics analysis, and much more.

Consistent results...

We work with all of your vendors to ensure that your catalog mailing is executed flawlessly and on time.  And because we are a small, boutique catalog agency, you'll benefit from our excellent customer service, effective communications, and ability to deliver results that count.


On-site visits...

You'll be kept up-to-date on your catalog's progress every step of the way. Depending on your needs, we can schedule weekly or monthly phone conferences.  In addition, we are happy to meet with you and your staff to present catalog marketing and circulation results, share ideas,  answer questions, and discuss future plans.


Reasonable fees...

Hansel Group Marketing can work with you on a fixed-fee project basis or consult with you on an hourly basis.  We also have several retainer packages available.

 
 


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