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 -
DeSantis' campaign says his cash on hand is not impacted by the $1 million in payments still due to vendors for direct mail services.
— CBS News, 16 Oct. 2023 -
Instead, as the parties lost their coherence and authority, they were overtaken by grass-roots politics of a new type, driven by direct mail, beholden to special interest groups, and funded by lobbyists.
— George Packer, Foreign Affairs, 11 Oct. 2011
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