Article: Buried leads revisited. (restructuring fundraising direct mail letters)

CONTROL FOR THREE-PLUS YEARS, THIS AMNESTY INTERNATIONAL MAILING IS THE NEWEST AXEL ANDERSSON AWARD WINNER

Editor's Note: Malcolm Decker, one of America's premier copywriters, sent in a fascinating critique of an Amnesty International letter and suggested a possible improvement. I ran Malcolm's piece in TM's sister publication, Who's Mailing What! The copywriter, Jerry Huntsinger, one of the most respected fund-raising copywriters in America, wrote to say that he had been hired to create the package by the Craver, Mathews, Smith agency; it was a highly engineered letter and had been control for two or three years. I checked our Archive and found that the mailing had ...

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