Section Introduction

Direct Marketing

• Naming
• Branding
• Logo Development
• Corporate Communications

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Problem: Your company has a new name, a new logo, and a service your customers think is wonderful — once they try it. Which means they have to get hold of your software and see for themselves how easy it is to use.

Solution: Send ‘em the software. Boscobel developed the first-ever direct mail campaign that enclosed a software diskette. (Boscobel president Joyce Bosc was inspired by receiving a shampoo sample in the mail. Softer hair...software...hmmm.) We also pioneered magazine ads with attached software.

Direct response advertising allowed extensive testing — for example, by using A/B/C split insertions (or in-line testing) in magazines. Most of all, including a diskette put the software directly into the hands of consumers so they could respond by trying AOL. Which they did at an astounding response rate of 70%!