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Social Media Growing at Every Age

Social media use is rapidly growing across all demographics. Current studies show that 73% of online adults now use a social network of some kind, and 42% are using multiple social networks. 92% of internet users ages 18 to 29 log into a social network daily. Even among seniors 65 and older, social networking use is at 38%. Great social media enhances the response rate of direct mail, and with the huge numbers of consumers interacting on social media platforms, it’s imperative that companies begin to use these as part of their multi-channel marketing campaigns if they haven’t already.

Due to growing demand and a natural extension of service strategy for our clients, BEB has taken on social media in all its many forms! Both established and new companies are benefiting from the use of social media, and growing their customer base through engagement! Platforms such as Facebook, Twitter, Instagram & LinkedIn allow us to reach out to existing customers and prospects in a friendly and informative way, as well as keeping up to date with the latest technologies available!

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PEOPLE ON THE MOVE: Diane Bandemer

Join us in welcoming Diane Bandemer to our BEB Team. Diane is a business development manager specializing in multi-channel marketing for Houston and national markets. With 20-years of industry experience under her belt, Diane has managed data processing and client service departments as well as lead successful inside sales teams. She earned her Associate degree in Accounting from Alvin Community College and previously worked for Omnicom Group/Tabs Direct, Fiserv, and Seebridge Media. She is well versed in social media marketing and data analytics. Check out her profile on LinkedIn, Twitter or Facebook and connect!

Ron Royall Wins Prestigious Helsley Family Award

Our President & CEO, Ron Royall was awarded the Helsley Family Award by the Association of Marketing Service Providers-Southwest Chapter in April. This prestigious award originated over 40 years ago and recognizes individuals for demonstrating a long history of significant and outstanding achievement in the mailing service industry. The award can only be won once and the recipient is selected by the previous members. The award has extra special meaning to us as our Founder, and Ron’s father, Bob Royall earned this distinguished honor in 2001. We are proud of our heritage within the marketing production industry and so very proud of Ron for earning this exclusive award.

BEB Takes Highest Honor

We are very excited to announce that Business Extension Bureau has earned the Association of Marketing and Communication Professionals (AMCP) highest industry honor, The Platinum Hermes Award for our quarterly newsletter, The Bureau.

This year’s competition was fierce, with over 5,500 entrants from all over the world vying for top honors. We are thrilled to receive the recognition, especially from the traditional media category and for a direct mail marketing piece.

BEB Named All Star by Constant Contact

The All Star Award from Constant Contact®, Inc honors e-mail marketing results. In 2013, BEB-Business Extension Bureau ranked among the top 10% of the Constant Contact® global customer base and achieved consistently high open rates (greater than 25%), click through rates and low bounce rates. Consideration also included companies with a high level of engagement with e-mail campaigns and/or events and significant social sharing features connected to those campaigns.

BEB Social Media Class Gets A Big Thumbs UP

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We are (so) excited about the comments received from our (awesome) participants attending our Small Business, Summer Seminar Series.

Today’s session, the 2nd of 4, was an overview of social media. We researched profiles of the users of several platforms such as Twitter, Facebook, and LinkedIn. We reviewed unique applications such as hashtags, likes, and shares. And of course we covered ways to measure via Followers, impressions and reaches.

Our students were lively, engaged and represented so many different industries and services! Thanks to everyone for making today such a fantastic exchange!

We’ve created the graphic above to share some the comments received from surveys submitted from today’s class! We look forward to seeing you (including the 90% that are continuing on) at next week’s class on “Two Mails”. Direct Mail and e-mail. Thank you again for your participation and contribution. The balance of our Summer Seminar Series has SOLD OUT!

The Current State of the Economy

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From the August edition of our bi-monthly newsletter, The Bureau

Ron Royall, President

At the start of the third quarter, I’m still uncertain about our current economic climate. Recently I saw a monthly economic index from the NFIB that showed a drop in June indicating confidence among job creators isn’t there. On the other hand, I just read an article about an analysis conducted by Bloomberg BNA that said the US economic recovery is expected to accelerate beginning in the 2nd half of 2013.

The one thing I am certain about is our commitment to you, our clients, vendors and partners. As we continue to weather this economic storm, we have seen a tremendous amount of activity and change and are honored to work for, and with, so many great companies and people.

Our extended issue of our newsletter covers a very exciting 2nd quarter for us. As one of the articles says; BEB has been “On A Roll” winning six awards from local, regional and national organizations, and for a wide variety of items such as our interactive holiday cards, twitter campaigns and our newsletter, The Bureau!

We’ve also launched our new website, bebtexas.com, and cordially invite you to take a tour. It’s a living site that is in a constant state of renewal. In addition to the traditional details of our service offerings, we share our rich and unique 64-year history while offering the latest postal and marketing news through our blog. There are links to our Twitter, LinkedIn, and Facebook pages, and we’ve added a career page too! Most important, we are connected to our clients through this interactive site and appreciate all of the feedback, suggestions and kudos received so far!

Other articles enclosed a summation of stats from a multi-channel marketing campaign, highlights from a meeting with the US Postmaster General Pat Donahoe, and outline of postal promotions for the remaining year and more photos showing our personal side on “The Back Wall”.

The balance of the year holds more excitement and education too. We’ll be at several industry trade shows, we have several client trips slated on the calendar and lots of industry events (including the big PICG Oktoberfest) and soon we’ll be working on our 2014 Calendar.

No matter how bumpy the economic climate is for our businesses, BEB will continue to search for new ways to better serve your needs. Thank you for your continued support and thank you for your business.

Sincerely,

Ron Royall