SnailWorks Webinar – Taking Direct Mail Digital
March 23, 2018   Dave Lewis
Direct Mail still matters – maybe more than ever! On Thursday, April 4, SnailWorks presents a free webinar – Taking Direct Mail Digital - Direct Mail still matters – maybe more than ever! Direct mail remains a key component of many marketing campaigns....

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Response Measurement, Attribution, and Direct2Digital
March 23, 2018   Dave Lewis
Get credit for all that great stuff you do! Well, that’s not a fun title, is it?  But it’s an important concept when you tie your direct mail and digital marketing together, so we’ll forgo fun for a few paragraphs and discuss how...

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Amplify Your Direct Mail
February 27, 2018   Dave Lewis
Beginning in April, look for our enhanced Multi-Channel products - Direct2Digital™. SnailWorks pioneered coordinated multi-channel direct marketing – boosting response rates by tying direct mail marketing and delivery to online channels. With Direct2Digital™...

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Leveraging the new capabilities of Informed Visibility®
February 27, 2018   Dave Lewis
Beginning in March, SnailWorks Mail Tracking becomes Visibility+™, incorporating the advanced new capabilities provided by the Postal Service’s Informed Visibility®. With its new Informed Visibility (IV) platform, the Postal Service has greatly enhanced...

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Soon You Can Track Your Preprinted BRE’s!
January 16, 2018   Dave Lewis
This is more exciting than you think Sometimes the Postal Service really does surprise us – in a good way. We were sitting through an MTAC call about the next software update for Informed Visibility.  Whee… “…and so this will simplify the bulk updating...

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Why a Campaign?
January 16, 2018   Dave Lewis
The ROI of Coordination Everybody’s “multi-channel,” right?  They’re all doing emails, have web sites, social media, 800 numbers, and…I could go on and on.  There are plenty of channels, and most people are using at least a few.  So, if you already have...

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Not Every GURL Needs PURLs
December 4, 2017   Dave Lewis
We all just want to be sure everyone knows what we offer. First, a three-sentence education on URLs: An URL is a web address – snailworks.com A GURL (General or Guest URL) is a URL specific to a landing page – MailMeetsTheWeb.com A PURL (Personalized...

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Getting Deeper into the Weeds of Informed Visibility – Part 2
December 4, 2017   Dave Lewis
In our last look at Informed Visibility (Click here if you missed it) we talked about individual piece scan data – piece scans, logical events and assumed events.  This all adds up to enhanced piece level data delivered from a groovy new data platform...

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Getting Into the Weeds on Informed Visibility - Part 1
October 27, 2017   Dave Lewis
November 30 is fast approaching, and this is kind of a Big Deal date in the world of mail tracking.  That is the day the IMb Tracing system will be turned off, and all mail tracking data will flow through the Informed Visibility (IV) platform.  This is...

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Dave Lewis Appointed to MTAC User Group Leadership Role
October 27, 2017   Dave Lewis
Dave Lewis, President of SnailWorks, was recently appointed the Industry Co-Chair of MTAC User Group 4 – Informed Visibility. The Postmaster General''s Mailers'' Technical Advisory Committee (MTAC) is a venue for the United States Postal Service (Postal...

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