Campaign Management

Allegiance Group offers full direct mail fundraising campaign management services. We take all the work that goes into program planning, strategy, and execution off your plate, from retention, acquisition, and stewardship strategy, audience targeting, and segmentation to production and delivery.

We manage small to enterprise clients across a broad number of sectors, growing direct mail fundraising programs strategically for the long term. Our successes include growing sustainer programs by double digits, moving donors thoughtfully up the donor-giving funnel, increasing new donor retention YOY, and more. See our case studies for more details.

Copywriting, Design, & Development

There’s an art and a science to developing compelling copy that’s written with the express purpose of inspiring someone to make a donation to your nonprofit.  Your direct mail fundraising copy should answer these three questions:

• Why should I give?
• Why should I give now?
• What’s the consequence of not giving?

To create an emotional response from the reader, direct mail should use the story of a single individual… animal… family who has benefited from your services. Unlike marketing — or other copy — that describes or promotes your organization, fundraising copy should make the donor the hero and should utilize more “You” language than “We” language.

When it comes to direct mail design, everything — from the elements that make up the direct mail package, to the size and color of the type — should all work to enhance the message. An exceptional design rarely gets noticed by the layperson. A compelling design can enhance a strong package, and a poor design can impede response.

Printing & Mailing

Once your direct mail appeal has been crafted, you can rely on Allegiance Group to manage all the details, including:  

• Printing and Variable Data
• Data management
• Lettershop services
• Mailing
• Inventory management

Our experienced production team will ensure that your campaigns are executed flawlessly, on time, and on budget.

Testing & Optimization

Every direct mail campaign is an opportunity to make improvements in your fundraising program.  Those learnings come from testing.  

Rather than just running with an idea and seeing what happens, direct mail testing helps you mitigate your risk.

When developing your testing plan, you’ll want to:

• State your objective:  What is the change you want to create?  
• Develop a hypothesis:  “If I increase the ask amount by $5, the average gift will go up and generate more net revenue.”
• Determine how you will measure success. Will it be a rise in average gift and total net revenue or other?
• Isolate a single variable (test one thing at a time, like the ask amount).

Acquisition List Planning

Allegiance is dedicated to growing your membership or donor program to its full potential through financially sound and targeted acquisition efforts.

Our services include intense data analysis, strategic list planning, and flawless list acquisition. 

And there’s no cost to using Allegiance’s high-caliber strategic list planning team! We are paid by list owners. So, put our decades of professional list brokerage to work for you. Our real-world list planning and quantity projections tell you if you are over- or under-mailing, which can have big implications on your bottom line.

Our Acquisition Services include:

• Strategic List Evaluation
• Unbiased List Recommendations
• Top-notch List Rental Execution
• Tireless Pursuit of Exchanges
• Development and Execution of Consortium List Buys
• Best-in-Class Acquisition List Processing and Merge/Purge Services
• Result Reporting and Analysis

Direct Mail Enhancements

Using direct mail enhancements will increase response rates and broaden your message across multiple media channels.

USPS Informed Delivery Interactive Campaign

• Enhance the value of direct mail by creating a new connection through digital content.
• Target existing USPS Informed Delivery users with custom images and URLs to provide full color digital previews of direct mail.
• Use Informed Delivery Interactive Campaigns to acquire new donors and grow existing support base.

USPS Informed Visibility

• Informed Visibility enables mailers to leverage key information about their mailings to manage operations, see when mail is delivered, and adjust marketing strategies as needed.
• Integrate Informed Visibility with digital media by using delivery scans to trigger personalized outbound emails to your direct mail recipients on the day their mail is delivered.

Ringless Voicemail

• Deliver pre-recorded messages to donors or prospects without either party ever picking up the phone.
• Pairing Ringless Voicemail with a direct mail appeal or email appeal gives your message extra momentum.
• An extremely effective and non-intrusive alternative to other forms of communication.

IP Targeting

• Connect direct mail to the internet by using IP Targeting.
• Target specific residential or business locations by matching IP addresses.
• Display your digital content by delivering ads to those people on websites they visit across the web.