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How to sell newspaper subscriptions via direct mail

CASE HISTORY
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What must be done to reverse the failing, flailing future of newspaper subscription sales? Everything. A call to arms from The Morning Call…

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What Now? What Next?

OPEN LETTER

Costs are up. Response is down. Circulation is falling. Lists are exhausted. Offers are fatigued. Rules are changing. Subscribers are wary. Has there ever been a better time for new ideas in circulation? Here are some things you can do now to survive the tough times so you can positively thrive when — if ever — the going gets good.

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‘Let’s do whatever The Wall Street Journal is doing’

Here’s the latest in my mail from The Wall Street Journal. Ever since “two young men graduated from the same college,” whatever The Journal mails has been the avatar of subscription promotions. As they say, if you’re going to steal, steal smart.

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113 Certainties for Circulation Success

OPEN LETTER

Here’s a list of tips, techniques, and truths to help you create winning subscription promotions. Do you know them all? Know a few more I should add? Reply before midnight.

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