Home The Tool Box Profiling Portfolio Political Marketing About Pointer Process Marketing-Plus! Optimum value? Our job at Pointer Marketing is to make sure that every business we work with receives the optimum value on investment. We want the ratio of what you spend proportionate to what you receive. When you spend $1.00 with Pointer Marketing we want to make sure that your investment grows, proportionate to the outcome you’re looking for. Your aim should be continual growth, and ours is to give you the resources to make that happen. In that effort, we endeavor to give our customers marketing tools to leverage their marketing dollars into productive product and service growth strategies. Strategies that give you the ability to reinvest into ongoing and future growth and expansion projects. A scientific process? When growth is the goal, especially in terms of products and services, we advocate the use of time-tested marketing tools to discover the potential of the products and services you offer. Your website is a tool; staff, social media, podcasts, service manuals and point-of-purchase displays as well. These core tools are foundational in affecting the outcomes you’ve targeted to reach your goals–whether that’s operating costs, product growth, building your brand in the market, or increasing the impact of your customer services. Additional to these foundational tools–did you also know that direct mail marketing is one of the most important collateral tools you can posses in affecting profit and growth? Surprising to some, direct mail marketing often seems more like a craft than a process; more like speculation and whim than a science. At Pointer Marketing we believe that direct mail marketing is a process, a process founded on time-tested and proven marketing science; empirically based on observation and measurement, not simply theory. As such it must be based on tools that govern the marketing outcomes. Here’s the process… For over thirty years, Pointer Marketing has based its direct mail marketing process on the concept of “what” marketing does for you. Good marketing creates value. It’s all about input and output. Your foundational and collateral resources (input), converted into something more valuable (output). The result is … Enhanced research and development. As research and product development are a key aspect of how you create your products and services, marketing should motivate you to become better at research and more adept at what your business offers from a value perspective to the market. It’s a unique learning opportunity that’s imperative to your growth as a business. Increased and sustainable growth. Growth is about more people knowing about your product or services today than they did yesterday. Good marketing strives to give you an efficient cost/value relationship when it comes to your investment dollars. Additionally, the best marketing is just as concerned with sustaining growth as growing it. More influence and impact. When a successful marketing campaign is concluded and sustaining programs are put in place, the end result is that your marketing message should be more dominant today than yesterday, and your customer base more committed than ever to your brand. Here are the tools… Better lists, better pricing At Pointer Marketing our primary marketing tool is list acquisition and Analytics. Our business-to-consumer lists are unsurpassed. The reason? We employ what is called “Water-falling” on every consumer list we purchase. Waterfalling is a subscription analytical tool which enables us to look at multiple list vendors, each with their own unique set of pertinent data. Unlike past practices of buying the best list we could find based on psychographic and demographic data alone, we purchase several lists and overlay them, remove duplicates and adding new names with each consecutive list. Ultimately, due to the efficiency of this process, our consumer lists have always given you a better list (traditionally accurate to 90%) for a better price (see below). New for 2019/2020! Pointer Marketing is pleased to announce an improved list sourcing process– Enhanced Data Analytics Enhanced Date Analytics allows us greater and deeper penetration into consumer markets, increasing our data capabilities through additional data filtering capabilities. What does that mean for you? Because data accuracy is advanced to a level of up to 95%, your Pointer Marketing consumer mailing list will be more accurate than ever before. Marketing analytics make a difference in how your marketing pieces are designed All Pointer Marketing Associates have a background in marketing. Cumulatively our staff has over 200 years of marketing and advertising experience. When we look at a marketing piece, whether an envelope, card, letter or brochure, we do it with a critical eye focused on: readability, call-to-action, copy flow, word usage, and compatibility within a target market. We’re adept at telling a poor piece of marketing from a good one. Yet, despite all our experience, we can and do overlook minute details amidst a myriad of layout options. Perhaps a picture should be in the upper left-hand part of the card and not in the lower right? Did that block of reverse type really get read? Is that headline in the right place? These and many other similar questions are legitimate, but only a marketing genius would have the ability to remember all the possible questions, let alone the possible solutions. That’s why we’ve made a considerable investment in a brand-new, cutting edge marketing Analytics tool. New for 2019/2020! Pointer Marketing is pleased to announce a new marketing analytic tool– Cognitive Marketing Analytics Cognitive Marketing Analytics gives us the scientific ability to determine how to design the very best marketing layouts. We are now able to know how copy position and size make a difference, which colors are more effective, how large a picture should be, or in what sequence aspects of a marketing piece should appear. What does that mean for you? This exciting, cutting edge marketing tool enables us to examine direct mail visuals and layouts subjecting them to these four tests: PET (Predictive Eye Travel) PET tells us where the human eye focuses on any given piece of mail: card, letter, brochure–any printed or digital piece of advertising. GPA (Gaze Plotting Analysis) GPA analytics give us a better understanding as to how long the human eye remains on each area of focus. The longer the focus, the better the idea of what visuals keep your customer’s attention the longest. APA (Aesthetic Plotting Analysis) APA is the tool we use to help us understand the overall aesthetics of a layout or design on a scale of 1 to 100. We rate colorfulness, clarity and how well the visual elements are balanced. DPA (Duration Plotting Analysis) This final Cognitive Marketing Analytics tool tells us which segment of an advertising layout or design held the viewers attention the longest. Did they look more at the visuals than the headlines or copy? Which parts of the advertising did they skip over altogether? Why Cognitive Marketing Analysis? It doesn’t replace Pointer Marketing knowhow–it refines it. It’s a considerable software investment that we’ve recently made to enhance our capabilities as designers, writers, and printers. Not only does it help us know what looks better, it actually gives us a very good idea of what works better. Cognitive Marketing Analytics answers the question of what gets read? Where does the human eye look in the first critical seven seconds of browsing? Which colors hold a glance longer than others? How effective is one photo over another? Research shows that the average human attention span is less than four seconds. That means your marketing materials need to be not only attractive, but strategic in how they are laid out and designed. If you can’t keep the reader’s attention long enough, you may mitigate your ability to create customer awareness. Why you need Cognitive Marketing Analysis Cognitive Marketing Analytics reports graphically show what will work on your design and what won’t; all before you’ve invested a dime in printing and mailing. This empowers you to make crucial design decisions based on facts and not subjectivity or intuition. That’s how important visual elements are in your direct mail designs. To make sure each design element is seen in the right order ensures your marketing message will be heard. Cognitive Marketing Analytics does this for you–scientifically. When you use our Cognitive Marketing Analytics services, your design will be validated with clear evidence of what works and what doesn’t. We make it possible for you to base design decisions on facts about user behavior, not assumptions. That’s because we are putting the user, your customer, at the center of the design concept segment of your direct mail marketing campaign. If you want to find out more about Pointer Marketing Plus, call us today at 262-338-8538. Or, visit: pointermarketinginc.com/ppmplus. We're here to help! Send 7019 State Road 144 N West Bend, WI 53090 262.338.8538 frank@pointermarketinginc.com