Using CD Mailers To Leverage Your ROI


Author: Oliver Brown

Grabbing your customers attention for the first time around can some times be a daunting task. This is especially true when sending direct mail campaigns. A good part of your demographic will have become some what immune to the standard direct mail tactics used at the current time. This is why its of paramount importance to create more value for your advertising pound — cutting down on costs here will save money in the short term but will have much bigger adverse affects in the long run.

Next time you are setting down to plan your next direct mail campaign you should maybe consider mailing CD's and DVD's with your marketing message not just on the disc but actually printed on the inside and outside of the envelope mailer it's self. Tests have shown that this tactic can increase customer engagement by 60% over standard printed paper marketing materials.

The CD mailer is usually available in the standard 120mm CD format and also the mini 8 centimeter CD format. This gives you 2 options depending on the virtual and physical size of your marketing message.

Our CD mailer is especially useful when sending out; video, training, audio messages, software, taster products, life coaching, software updates, share holder updates and plenty of other applications.

The main advantage that people have in mind when using the CD mailers is the very high perceived value. They really do look stunning. Every panel can be printed in full color as well as the CD its self and also, a A4 letter can be added in the rear part of the mailer for extra marketing bite.

To make life easy, most companies that sell the mailers also offer a full service mailing solution. They can often take your idea and then deal with every aspect of making the product a reality, from graphic design to manufacture, add the address labels (or print the address directly to the surface) and then send them out using the discount bulk rates available to bulk mailing customers. This service saves you a great deal of time and effort, not to mention warehousing space and staff costings.

The normal CD mailer configuration has a folded back panel, with a flap that folds over the top of the back panel and then seals the mailer closed with a self adhesive strip. This makes the CD mailer very light weight and extremely easy to use and assemble. It also give the space for the A4 letter behind the CD and allows for a continuous print pattern over every panel part of the mailer.

They are often referred to as printed card mailers or custom printed CD mailers. The mailers are printed using a process know as screen printing. Screen printing a very versatile method of printing because the surface does not have to be printed under pressure like litho printing, this gives a very nice finish to your mailer.

There are many options available with CD mailers in regards to the upgrades you can have. For example you can get for a spot gloss effect, this is an area that is printed with just a clear gloss to enhance that area of print, this might be the call to action (website or phone number) or your logo. It really makes that area 'pop'. Metallic foil is also an choice, you can opt to have 1 of your colors a metallic foil, usually available in silver,metallic blue, red, silver, gold and other metallic colors. There is also the option for embossing, this is where a section of the mailer is raised by around 1mm above the rest of the surface area, meaning you can feel the outline of the embossed area.

Also available is pantone color matching so you can be 100% assured that the colors your need are the colors you get. This is very important when keeping you company branding intact.

The mailers are post approved for the lower rate of postage, in the UK they fall under the standard letter category, and are AUS post approved for bulk sorting for our Australian customers. saving you potentially thousands on big runs compared to normal posting methods.

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