As a marketer, you surely don’t need a high-level explanation on drip campaigns. But even the most seasoned, creative and expert marketers have room to improve their workflows and campaign effectiveness – it’s part of what makes marketing so fascinating. In fact, it’s downright imperative that you regularly review and revise your drip and email marketing efforts.

After years and years of mass marketing, personalization has emerged as the real future. Perhaps personalized marketing is already the present. After all, we’ve entered an age in which customer service and user experience is valued above all else. According to a Forrester Consulting study, titled The Personalization Imperative, 94% of customers and marketing professionals reported that personalization is an important facet in meeting their current marketing objectives.

If your day is like any other person you’re swamped – swamped with work, your endless daily to do’s, and the million other tasks you need to get done in your personal life. If life can be a whirlwind for you, it can sure be the same for the rest of us. So how do you get someone to stop, take a moment, and absorb a message they weren’t planning to experience?

There are more than three billion people using the internet each day, so as you can imagine the digital marketing competition is strong. In order to succeed, you must be creatively thinking outside of the box. An out-of-the-box strategy that most companies haven’t adopted yet is combining automated direct mail with digital marketing to optimize its efforts. Combining digital and real-world tangible assets allows you to standout in the noise. Create exposure to your business that goes beyond the internet while developing a remarkable experience for potential clients.

So you have your product or service, and you want to market it to the world. You have a website. You’re on the popular social media platforms – Facebook, Linkedin and others. And you post on your blog regularly. With 47% of the world on the internet – that’s 3.5 billion people surfing the web – conceivably, your company should be reaching all of the right people. But that’s a faulty assumption.