33% is an awesome response rate.

Sound impossible?

It’s not—if you use this little-known strategy that breaks through the clutter and grabs your prospects’ attention.

4,000 to 10,000.

That’s how many messages your prospect is exposed to daily.

Prospects may be a year older and a little wiser… but they are definitely more jaded toward all advertising and marketing efforts.

It’s often called “ad blindness.”

The time we have to grab their attention before they overlook, dismiss, or trash our message is shorter than it has ever been.

Their level of skepticism is at the highest it has ever been.

But it’s not mission impossible.

With some foresight… heaps of creativity… and strategic direct response insights, you’ll knock your marketing efforts out of the park.

Let me give you an example: DraganFly – they got a 33% overall response rate.

They had a small target audience and a high-margin offer that justified what we call a 3D mailing.

A 3D mailer is a box with a unique item inside with the “wow” effect.

Your prospect must open a FedEx piece. But instead of a sales letter or brochure, it’s an item that creates curiosity, suspense, and interest.

We have used puzzles, shredded money, a treasure box, and more.

In this case, the target audience was a select group of investment influencers including newsletter writers who influenced over 2 million paid subscribers to their investment service – the most active investors in America today.

The goal: To have them accept an expense-paid trip to a special event we created just for them in Las Vegas.

We mailed them a FedEx box. Inside the box was a drone for their personal use… and a request to join “mission possible.”

Everything in the box screamed “espionage,” “mission impossible,” and “007”.

Here is what they saw when they opened the FedEx package:

There was a top-secret invitation explaining why they were receiving this package, satellite images of the precise location, a detailed agenda of how long the get-together would last, specifics regarding what exactly they’d be doing, a drone, and what appeared to be a book.

Only, the book wasn’t a book – it was a hidden safe in disguise… that was locked!

They had to call us to get the combination code to unlock the safe. They had to get the code because the drone’s remote control was inside the safe.

This combination of intrigue, mystery, uniqueness, and the feeling of teamwork between the company and the investment influence writers that we generated helped us break down the wall and reach a group of people otherwise impossible to reach.

The acceptance of our invitation was off the charts, which is even more impressive because we were asking a super skeptical group of people to give up three days of their time and busy schedules to travel to another city to meet with a company to learn about their technology—a copy they’d never heard of before.

As our 3D invitation demonstrated, mission impossible was actually mission possible when done the right way.

Let me go into greater detail for you.

This 3D campaign specifically was more than just a physical FedEx invitation. It was a multi-channel, integrated marketing campaign that included emails.

Besides the significant response rate of 33% to the invitations, the open rates for the emails were record-breaking as well. The average open rate of the 5 emails sent was 36.68%.

The investment influencers who came to the Las Vegas event and those who didn’t – learned about the company to tell their paid subscribers.

Like bookalogs, newsalogs, magalogs, and videologs … 3D direct mail packages are irresistible. There is an intrinsic value in receiving a FedEx package, and the appeal is so strong that no one can toss the package into the trash before opening it.

You are guaranteed to break through the gatekeepers and into the hands of your prospects.

So, it should be no surprise that 3D promotions have the highest open rates of all direct mail. Best of all, they are the most powerful way to market to small, niche, skeptical audiences successfully.

Want to learn more? Watch this 4-minute video brief on 3D. Click HERE.

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If you want to drive up big response and turn up huge profits, give Michael a call at 615-933-4647 or email him at [email protected].