Our Focus
Marketing for the 21 Century
Strategy
Direct mail has been a high performing marketing channel for well over 30 years. It competes with digital marketing, outranking it with higher response rates.
Creative
Creative’s responsibility is to catch the attention of the reader and to keep the reader on page as long as possible.
Data
Data is the driving force that shapes strategy and design for campaigns to stay relevant. But data can be overwhelming without the proper guidance.
Analytics
Our clients and prospects don’t want to be sold.They want to buy, so we need to able to inform them, educate them and help them make the choice to buy.
Fundraising & Marketing
According to recent estimates, there are over three million NGO nonprofits in the world with 1.2 million in this country alone.That’s a lot of competition to beat out and get your fair share of donors and funding.
About us
The Digital Marketing Shop: A Virtual Agency For The 21st century
The Digital Marketing Shop is a Virtual Agency built to deliver Big Agency Thinking; Big Agency Creative; Big Agency Data Analytics... Without The Big Agency. We are all aware of the pressure organizations are under to streamline and become more cost efficient. Big agencies have been buckling under the weight of massive overhead and told by clients, both global and domestic, to find efficiencies. We did! The new “gig” economy has absorbed many who have left the big global agencies. We weren’t the first pioneers in the virtual work world, but we saw firsthand the many benefits to our clients and our teams by going this route. Our virtual staff is hands on with every project, supervising and quality controlling every aspect. We go to client meetings, make presentations and do creative briefs, but because our overhead is low, we don’t charge like an agency using senior staff. Our clients get industry veterans with an extensive knowledge of the old way, the new way, and the way of the future. Technology made a virtual agency possible and will make many new and uncharted processes and strategies possible in the future. We spend the time and energy to become experts in technology and use it for innovation.
Strategy
Development and Implementation
Creative
Graphic and Digital Design
Data
Management and Development
Analytics
Measurement and Applications
our team
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Rick Levy
Beverly Beaudoin
Dan Affeldt
Jay Burke
Eric Schwartz
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Blog Posts
Direct Mail Remarketing
Just as in the corporate world, not-for-profit site visitors will browse a website, spend some time on a page, learn more about the organization, but not make a donation. There are many reasons why they drop off: too many choices, too much competition; not sure; not the right time. […]
Direct Mail Goes Digital
Facebook, specifically Facebook Ads, is a major influencer in the direct marketer’s playbook. Over 169 million users are expected in the US by the end of this year. Using Facebook ads in conjunction with direct mail could double your return. […]
Social Media Cohort Profile
No matter what your business is, digital marketing—and social media marketing specifically—is where you can create growth and find new audiences. Some companies hold back on social media because they think it reaches only millennials. Well, it does reach millennials, but it also reaches every cohort except the very young, the blind, and the dead.[…]
Content Neutrality From Amazon, Apple, Facebook, & Google More Important Than Net Neutrality
This post by David Meerman Scott is a great follow up to my post on Monopolies. He writes about Amazon, Apple, Google, and Facebook trying to lock users in on their island of content. ” These companies seem to be so focused on keeping users locked into their own content technology gardens that they threaten the[…]
Are We In The New Age of Monopolies?
I wrote this post because I realized how often I was on Google, Amazon, and Facebook. I know that we have alternatives, but are they as good? These companies are run by very smart marketers who know what we want, give us what we want, and tell us what we should want. Are We Being[…]
The Key to Attention-Grabbing Video Ads
There are so many ads vying for the attention of your viewer, especially video ads. How do you make them stand out? The answer according to Ekaterina Petrova […]
Gen Z: A Look Inside Its Mobile-First Mindset
Google does a really great job researching trends. This post has interactive charts and statistics and a downloadable report. […]
How To Get Started With Video Marketing
By now, you can tell I’m a video marketing evangelist. But I’m not alone. All the top sites with domain authority are preaching the same gospel — video.
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The Perfect Product Video
Video is the top rated channel for engaging your audience. If given a choice, people will click on a short video rather than read your content. The problem is the expense of a quality video production. That’s in the past. Don’t get me wrong, there is still a place for a longer, slick, expensive[…]
Use Video to Share Your Brand Message
This post by Lori Hil is a great tutorial on using the power of video to promote your band and engage your audience. Article covers all the different types of videos you can choose and give excellent sample clips. If you need convincing or just want more information, click the link and read on. Why Use[…]