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I'll admit it. I am a direct mail dinosaur now disguising myself as a hip online marketer. Everyone was going to find out one of these days, so I figured it was best to blow my own cover.
That said, the longer I work in the online world the more I realize how much of old-school, direct mail techniques are applicable to online marketing.
While there are several elements of communication that are different between the two channels, I offer the following five tips to online fundraisers from a direct mail dinosaur: