Going Postal: Not a Bad Idea

Written by June Campbell


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3. You can Send Unaddressed Bulk Mail

Use economical, unaddressed bulk mail to deliver your advertising and marketing content directly to targeted neighborhoods. You can target according to geography, demographics or lifestyle clusters. When you combine this with a Business Reply service, you can build your own databases of customers who you can then target with personalized, addressed mail.

Prices for unaddressed mail will vary, according to quantity, size, weight, etc.

Ask your Postal Service consultant if they can help you establishrepparttar best geographic territory for your mailing. For example, Canada Post's Householder Counts and Maps feature pinpointsrepparttar 106875 counts of houses, apartments, farms and businesses throughoutrepparttar 106876 country, along with letter carrier routes.

4. Business Reply Services Help you Build your own Databases

The reply is prepaid. Business Reply Mail allows your customers or potential customers to communicate with you at no cost to themselves. Most postal services allow business reply for cards or envelopes. Use envelopes when confidentiality is a factor; cards work best as magazine inserts or similar.

Pricing will be based on specifications.

Ask your postal consultant if they have a template to assist you in designing your card or envelope, or checkrepparttar 106877 web site for this type of service.

4. Your Postal Service Offers Tools to Small Businesses

This will vary, depending onrepparttar 106878 country you live in. However, look for databases, online ordering of shipping and other materials, courier services, help with ecommerce web sites, package tracking and more. Australia Post offers inventory management, telemarketing, warehousing and fulfillment services as well.

Spend some time on your Postal Service's web site. You might be pleasantly surprized at what you find.

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The Top Five Skills of Extraordinary Leaders

Written by Chris Widener


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4. Ability to Teach Others. One ofrepparttar greatest leadership development companies inrepparttar 106874 world has been General Electric. This is because their CEO, Jack Welch, has always emphasizedrepparttar 106875 need for current leaders to teach others. He himself spends what others would consider an extraordinary amount of time inrepparttar 106876 classroom teaching. But remember, he is an Extraordinary Leader and he is developing Extraordinary Leaders to follow behind him. Work hard at your teaching techniques, and be sure to use as many situations as possible forrepparttar 106877 opportunity to teach those who would follow.

5. Ability to Inspire Others. You may have a great goal, but if you want to be an Extraordinary Leader, then you will have to put a little oomph under your followers! This isrepparttar 106878 ability to inspire! Work at helping them to seerepparttar 106879 big picture,repparttar 106880 great end results, and how good it is going to be for them and others. Above all, make it exciting. If it is a good goal, it should be exciting. If it isn’t exciting, then dump it and get a goal that others can get excited about!

Chris Widener is a popular speaker and writer as well as the President of Made for Success and Extraordinary Leaders. You can join subscribers in 50 countries around the world and get his FREE monthly Extraordinary Leaders Ezine, the world's most widely distributed Leadership Newsletter, by sending a blank email to leaders-on@mail-list.com or visit his websites at http://www.madeforsuccess.com and http://www.extraordinaryleaders.com


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