How to Use direct mail in a Sentence

direct mail

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  • That amounts to more than $51 million spent on ads and direct mail alone.
    Caitlin Conant, CBS News, 23 Oct. 2020
  • This year, ducks can be purchased online at freestorefoodbank.org, by direct mail or over the phone.
    Emily Deletter, The Enquirer, 26 Aug. 2021
  • This is a standard direct mail piece that has been utilized for decades.
    NBC News, 6 Mar. 2020
  • Pelosi includes email and direct mail, whereas Ryan does not.
    Glenn Kessler, Washington Post, 14 Feb. 2018
  • The debates played out in town hall meetings, TV ads, direct mail and social media.
    New York Times, 6 May 2022
  • Nor are there tanks and planes for you, but social media, sales promotion and direct mail.
    Ramona Sentinel, 18 Oct. 2019
  • Then, the network will look to direct mail and digital efforts to reach voters.
    Kathryn Watson, CBS News, 29 Jan. 2018
  • In the direct mail business, sending promotions to the wrong audience is a good way to go out of business.
    Roger Dooley, Forbes, 12 Mar. 2021
  • My wife worked many years in charge of a large company’s direct mail department.
    Dave Lieber, Dallas News, 22 Oct. 2020
  • The direct mail boom was part of another unique marketing era.
    Nancy A Shenker, Rolling Stone, 23 Sep. 2022
  • Cuellar's campaign has largely relied on direct mail pieces and television ads to carry him in the wake of the FBI search.
    Eric Bradner and Rachel Janfaza, CNN, 19 Feb. 2022
  • Search will increase 17%, direct mail +8% and social media will rise 4%.
    Brad Adgate, Forbes, 4 Oct. 2022
  • Both sides spent money largely on Facebook ads, direct mail, radio ads and yard signs.
    Megan O’Matz, ProPublica, 1 Apr. 2022
  • Online ads — like direct mail and robocalls — can make setting the record straight very difficult.
    New York Times, 13 Oct. 2020
  • Facebook posts and Instagram pictures have taken over the space once held by direct mail, and this shows little to no signs of slowing down.
    David Villa, Forbes, 10 June 2022
  • It is distributed to subscribers in paper and non-subscribers via direct mail in the most prosperous zip codes.
    sandiegouniontribune.com, 17 Jan. 2018
  • But Liss-Riordan, who has spent significant amounts of her own money on TV ads and direct mail this summer, has surged in the polls.
    David Abel, BostonGlobe.com, 26 Aug. 2022
  • The second bill prompted the industry to flood the sponsor’s constituents with robocalls and direct mail, contributing to his defeat at the polls.
    Anjali Tsui, ProPublica, 3 Dec. 2019
  • In the olden days, most average Joe marketers had to rely on direct mail to capture sales from a new audience.
    Rafael Romis, Forbes, 25 Mar. 2022
  • Structurally in campaigns, people tend to spend about 70 percent of their budget on TV, radio, and direct mail, right?
    Jack Crosbie, Rolling Stone, 20 Jan. 2022
  • Those groups have used such tools as direct mail, phone calls and door knocking to persuade public-sector workers to give up union membership.
    Noam Scheiber and Kenneth P. Vogel, New York Times, 25 Feb. 2018
  • Without bricks-and-mortar branches, the bank spends heavily on direct mail and paid referrals to bring in customers.
    Peter Rudegeair, WSJ, 21 Feb. 2019
  • His funds have paid for direct mail, polling and research, according to Creuzot’s campaign finance report.
    Dallas News, 3 Nov. 2022
  • To help promote the program, city staff have used radio, newspaper ads, social media and direct mail.
    al, 13 Apr. 2021
  • While direct mail accounts for a smaller proportion of campaign spending these days, the total dollar amount spent on mail hasn’t gone down, Mitchell said.
    Los Angeles Times, 2 Nov. 2022
  • For example, a four-page direct mail piece generates 28 grams of CO2, which can be less than that of an email that has been forwarded along, reopened, deleted and so forth.
    Bruce McMeekin, Forbes, 30 Aug. 2021
  • The industry flooded his constituents with direct mail.
    Anjali Tsui, ProPublica, 14 Feb. 2020
  • You're approached about including your business in a direct mail marketing brochure sent to 1 million homes in your business area.
    Rhonda Abrams, USA TODAY, 23 Oct. 2019
  • Of course, there are more traditional mediums like posters, direct mail and newspapers.
    Yec, Forbes, 28 Sep. 2021
  • For that woman, Cuup uses direct mail, retail pop-ups and office fittings.
    Rory Satran, WSJ, 22 May 2021

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