David Lloyd - Offering Little

I received a direct mail piece last week from the David Lloyd chain of gyms attempting to regain me as a member. It’s been over 3 years since I left so they must be contacting pretty much everyone who used to have a membership.

With membership around £70 a month they can afford a scattergun approach as their mailing (with 25p mailing cost) doesn’t need a huge response rate for the campaign to pay its way.

Selling gym memberships is a rare example in business where almost all incremental sales revenue is incremental profit so with the sums involved you’d expect a professional approach.

The letter however (reproduced below), is an example of poor layout, bad grammar, omissions and garbled marketing:

Far too often companies treat ex-customers as a homogenous group without considering why the person left, how likely they are to come back and what incentive would be required to get them back.


Rather than concerning themselves with maximising the value of this pool of ex-customers, as long as a campaign is profitable no further questions are asked.

Dan Barnett,

Director
Analysis Marketing Ltd

blog@analysismarketing.com