Actual Campaign Results

Case History: Actual Campaign Results

Emerson Brantley and the WEB3Direct, Inc. team have conceived, written and conducted over seven thousand targeted direct response marketing campaigns across every marketing media. Here are some specific case histories and results from the thousands of guerrilla marketing campaigns in our library.

Every campaign is unique, depending upon factors such as the market, pricing, copy and media. Many other examples of our direct marketing campaigns are also available. (Where available the images below link to specific sites or Case History pages)

The Cash Flow Generator The Longest Running Lead-Generating Infomercial in History

(aka “The Home Business Journal” Show, January 1994 – Present)

Direct Response TV Infomercial

 

After successful direct mail, radio and pioneering online marketing tests, the first Cash Flow Generator infomercial testing for Ron LeGrand began in January 1994. Continued testing and improvements continued during 1996 and 1998, including creating two other variations of the show. One of these ran head-to-head against a Guthy-Renker version, beat the media giant in overall response. The fourth and final Cash Flow Generator infomercial began in July 1998 and was rolled out in spring 1999 with an initial $50,000 per week media budget.

The Cash-Flow Generator campaign created over 254,000 new leads for SDI, with average first year sales of $1952 per lead.

• Media cost: $50,000 per week
• Average weekly responses/sales: 1086

Media Earnings Ratio 1.28:1 (the show made $1.28 for every dollar spent on media — virtually unheard of for lead generating television even today). This means on an average weekly run of $50,000 of airtime x 1.28 = revenues of: $63,965 (generating earnings over media cost of approximately $13,965)

When Whitney International Network acquired the assets of International Media Holdings in 2003, WIN continued to use the Cash-Flow Generator to promote Russ Whitney’s renamed “Cash Flow Generator Workshops” around the country. In the company’s 2003 10K annual report, they attributed $9.5 million in revenue, or 10% of their entire revenue from the front-end lead-generating Cash Flow Generator. The show continued to be used into 2008, making it the longest-running lead-generating infomercial in history.

Independently-Monitored National Email Campaign: 41.55% Conversion

Read Entire Business 2.0 Report (March 2001)

New Subscriptions, Millionaire Magazine & Luxury Life Digest

After creating an early online ezine for Millionaire (later Opulence) magazine, Emerson initiated this test to drive traffic to the site and increase advertisers’ traffic and sales. Respondents were asked to subscribe to the online ezine, and to optionally give substantial shopping and preference information. When the program was begun, the magazine had fewer than 1200 online emails in their database. This initial test alone increased their database 251%.

Opt-In Emails: 60,000, cold list

• Click through rate:14% : Click throughs : 8400 unique visitors
• Conversion rate: 41.55% : Conversion to signup: 3086 new subscribers

80% provided key personal data for the database:

The follow-up campaign generated an additional 3.8% click-throughs, creating 20,000 repeat visits within first month for a variety of client offers.

As a result of the response rates and new business generated, all 35 advertisers continued to renew their contracts for Luxury Life Digest (Millionaire/Opulence Online) at an average revenue of $3,000 per month per advertiser.

The Cash-Flow Generator Salesletter Direct Mail Marketing

(January 2000, Cash Flow Generator letter to cold (rented) lists)

This ongoing direct marketing campaign was targeted to individuals who had ordered self-help, business-in-a-box types of courses from mail and print advertising. At one time over 122 lists were being utilized, all at different stages of testing and rollout. Here are results from a common mailing.

• Mailed: 10,000
• Cost for mailing: $9,160
• Responses (sales): 265
• Response rate: 2.65%

• Gross revenue (after mailing costs): $26,144
• Net profit (after course costs): $18,174

Thousands of Cash-Flow Generator direct response mailings were tested and used from 1993-2000. The Cash-Flow Generator campaign (including all media) was responsible for over 70% of all new customers for the company.

Million Dollar Salesletters Direct Mail Marketing

April 2006, Los Angeles Campaign, Cold lists
November 2009, West Palm Beach Campaign, Cold lists 40 high net worth prospects attended this investor presentation at LA’s City Club on Bunker Hill, all from a single mailing to a cold list.

Even though we extensively utilize new media for our clients, sometimes there is just no better way to reach specific markets than direct mail marketing. For these campaigns we pinpointed high net worth individuals with OVER $1,000,000 investible assets for direct investment in company projects. The objective of these mailings was for the prospect register for and attend an investment presentation.

• (2006, Los Angeles) Mailed: 10,000
• Cost for mailing & telemarketing $10,990
• Registrants: 54
• Cost per registrant: $180.16

• Conversions (to attendees): 40
• Conversion rate: 74.10%
• Cost per attendee: $274.75

(2009-2010) A similar program two years later for a different client. Although seminar attendance nationwide declined as much as 70% for many companies, we had even better results than the 2006 campaign above.

2009, West Palm Beach) Mailed: 10,000 Attendees 165

Direct Response Email Marketing

Recognition: “What Works,” Business 2.0 Magazine Read Entire Business 2.0 Report
(Independently-audited results) Conversion rate: 41.55% Independently- Monitored National Email Test (March 2001)

New Subscriptions, Millionaire Magazine & Luxury Life Digest

After creating an early online ezine for Millionaire (later Opulence) magazine, Emerson initiated this test to drive traffic to the site and increase advertisers’ traffic and sales. Respondents were asked to subscribe to the online ezine, and to optionally give substantial shopping and preference information. When the program was begun, the magazine had fewer than 1200 online emails in their database. This initial test alone increased their database 251%.

Opt-In Emails: 60,000, cold list

• Click through rate:14%
• Click throughs: 8400 unique visitors

• Conversion rate: 41.55%
• Conversion to signup: 3086 new subscribers

• 80% provided key personal data for the database

The follow-up campaign generated an additional 3.8% click-throughs, creating 20,000 repeat visits within first month for a variety of client offers.

As a result of the response rates and new business generated, all 35 advertisers continued to renew their contracts for Luxury Life Digest (Millionaire/Opulence Online) at an average revenue of $3,000 per month per advertiser.

 

National Radio Campaign & XM Satellite Show Direct Response Radio

(2007-2008 ) The desire was to create a profitable broadcast campaign the client could run nationwide. Special attention was paid to the demographics in each market, as well as the coverage (and the costs of airtime!).

• Airtime for 6 weeks test: $30,000 ($5,000 per week)
• Responses (pre-qualified by telemarketing): 451
• Cost per pre-qualified lead: $66.52