Handwritten Direct Mail Services

[Will Peters]

Hey BiggerPockets. This is my first post on the forums. I have been reading up on past posts and listening to podcasts so I'm fairly familiar with the site and the forums. I have just completed the first round of my first ever direct mail campaign. I sent 100 letters to absentee owners in the Atlanta area and it went fairly well. I was wondering if there are some easy ways to cut down on time while maintaining low costs for a campaign. Do y'all have any services you utilize? I am committed to handwritten envelopes and typed letters at the moment. Any advice helps. 

Thanks so much, 

Will Peters

[Chris Adamski]

@Will Peters

I started different direct mail campaigns not too long ago as well.  I too am committed to hand written letters to some and envelopes to all.  I used Calligraphr.com (no affiliation with the company) to create a font that looks like my own handwriting.  I'm not taking credit for 'finding' this service as I found it on BP as well as in different podcasts, but it has sure saved me a lot of time. 

It does take a bit of time to initially make all of the necessary adjustments to make it look just right, but now I just throw my paper and envelopes in my printer and print them all out using the mail merge functionality from my list.  I get packs of 40 envelopes from the dollar store, rolls of forever stamps from ebay (you can find stamps for around .40 per stamp for some reason), and use my own printer with my own font.  So for about $.45 per letter I'm able to send direct mail in my own "hand writing".  Granted, I still stuff my own envelopes - so this clearly isn't the most efficient method in terms of time, but it sure beats manually writing everything.

Hopefully this helps in your efforts.