Brian gives us a mail review from a mailer by Renewals by Andersen.

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Catching your customers eyes.

Hi I'm Brian Pombo, welcome back to Brian J. Pombo Live.

I want to talk about a piece of mail I got today. So we've been talking about like deep things lately on our little conversations, our nightly conversations.

But today I want to show you, this is a piece of relatively thick cardstock, let's say it's cardstock. It's a relatively thick piece of paper and I don't know enough about the paper to tell you how thick this is but they kind of get an idea just by the sound by looking at it.

This showed up in my mailbox. It was sitting there with some other stuff and it was sitting there kind of wide open. Then I looked at him like this is this a piece of mail or did someone slip this in my box.

So the first thought that went into my mind because it looks like just a piece of paper. And it's just a very thick piece of paper. So it's got the address, it's got it's pretty sorted standard US postage paid, Twin Cities Minnesota. looks like it came from Springfield, Oregon, or at least that's why it's made to look like Springfield's not far from here. It's a little north, a few hours north of here.

This is by a company called, Renewals by Andersen. But I want, I want to just point this out if you're looking to get attention from your customers, regardless of what style of marketing, this is direct mail, but regardless of what style of marketing, the whole idea is to catch their eye.

The whole idea is to get their attention for just one more second, and there are so many very subtle things about this piece that makes it different.

Number one, you don't get many pieces of mail that are just like this, even a postcard, or an oversized postcard. A postcard this size, it tends to have a little bit more weight and a lot more gloss.

This is not glossy, it's a very flat matte look to it. Okay, that's the first thing that caught my eyes.

Second thing is, I'm not sure if you can tell from the lighting in here and everything else. But it's a very interesting color. It's not white. It's not exactly pink. But it's a very light, something in between white and pink.

That's off putting it catches your eye, it's not a typical thing that you'd see. In fact, it kind of looks as I'm looking at it.

Now it kind of appears to be like a, if you've ever seen those carbon copies that used to have these around a lot more often before copy machines became so plentiful, and then printers and scanners. But the carbon copies where you can write something, and then you get a receipt and someone else gets a receipt and the top one will be like white and the second one will be like pink, and the next one will be like yellow.

And that's what this reminds me of.

I'm not sure if it's made to look like that or not but it appears that way. So it definitely caught my eye as far as that this is not accidental.

I guarantee you this is not accidental. If it is it's a brilliant accident.

Having a very off putting color is going to grab people's eyes, especially when it comes to direct mail. Just something that's unusual. So it's an unusual shape and size for direct mail.

It just It looks like a piece of paper, it looks like something that was torn off of somebody's carbon copy. And there's more to it. Okay.

In this, they've got this,