The clients are fantastic at repetitive tasks like stuffing mailers.

Hello people of BiggerPockets,I am just getting started and have a few questions regarding direct mail, so for all the experienced people out there I'd love to hear your opinions.I am looking to outsource my direct mail because it is taking a long time to hand write envelopes that are being stuffed with sub-par printed out letters.

BTW, Folding, stuffing, and putting the stamps on are the hardest part.

Stuffing our brains full of theory, facts and knowledge is not enough and is not education; however, our learning institutions have brain-washed everyone into thinking that is what learning is.  

We have sent the different groups different pieces to try and test what will get the best response.The first group received a standard yellow letter stuffed inside of a handwritten (in blue sharpie) 6x9" manilla envelope (link).

The materials and stamp will cost you about half that, and the time it takes to do it yourself, in my experience, is about 1 minute per mailer (printing, stuffing, sealing, stamping, sending). 

So I would have January 2013 for instance in a stack to be folded, addressed and stuffed.

I imagine it includes:Template creation: Form, font, size,Data entry: Putting new leads into templatesPrinting: One-at-a-time v lead packetInventory Management: Letters, envelopes, postcards, stamps, etc.Envelope Stuffing: Plus all other manual work to prep a letterScheduling: Determining the the frequency of lettersTracking: Watching lead to letter and where they are along the marketing funnelWhat else am I missing?

Looks good to me, but I just got done printing my first batch of letters from ListSource - 896 of them - which wasn't that bad, but we'll see how stuffing them goes though.I had last sale date at 1/1/1998 for a solid 15 years of ownership.

This includes stuffing the letter, putting a bulk mail stamp on them, hand writing my return address and the sellers address, and sealing the envelope.