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- From: cliff@allen.com (Cliff Allen)
- Newsgroups: misc.entrepreneurs
- Subject: Re: Mailing Lists vs Magazine Advertisements
- Message-ID: <NT6wqB2w164w@allen.com>
- Date: Fri, 11 Sep 92 00:18:34 EDT
- References: <lav1mvINNsln@aludra.usc.edu>
- Organization: Allen Marketing Group - Raleigh, NC
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- moghal@aludra.usc.edu (Nadeem Moghal) writes:
-
- > Alright. Here is the main part od my question. I hope someone
- > would be kind enough to suggest a few answers.
- >
- > An Ad in a magazine like Popular Science costs at least $125
- > (for a smallest possible size). But it goes to a very large
- > multitude of prospective buyers. Even if half a percent of
- > those think favorably, you'd be talking of thousands of
- > prospects.
-
- In a business-to-business publication (such as PC Magazine, etc.) you can
- expect to pay $50-75 per inquiry for most products. Several factors work
- together to make this rather consistant across ad size, circulation,
- industry, etc. Printing, postage, and salaries are about the same for
- magazines of equal page count and circulation. Awareness studies show
- that well-designed ads tend to generate about the same number of leads as
- other ads of the same size.
-
- >
- > Direct-mail, on the other hand, goes only to the people you
- > choose. Let's see how much it'd cost to mail the letter to
- > say, 5000 addresses:
- >
- > mailing list ~ 200 (is this a safe estimate?)
-
- Most mailing list companies have a 5,000 name minimum at a rate of
- $85-$150 per thousand.
-
- > And, the response is generally between 3-5% (am I right?) which
- > comes to 150-250. And depending upon the product, this would
- > barely break even.
-
- For rented (i.e., "cold") lists you can assume orders from 0.5% or
- inquiries from 3-5%. Mailing to a "hot" list of leads generated from
- advertising or PR results in much higher response rates.
-
- Cliff
-