Carol Enters List Company (CELCO)

10/15/2022

12/08/2021

CELCO will close early this Friday, December 10th at 11 am for our annual Holiday Party.

08/25/2021

Check out this post from our partners at PMG about production challenges and how to stay on track!

Direct Mail Trends We’re Watching:     Postage, Delivery Performance, Paper and More PMG is monitoring several critical industry trends as we enter the fall mailing season: Postage: New postage rates go into effect August 29, 2021. Commingling rate increases are compounded by rising fuel costs, ...

02/25/2021

Saying see you later is hard, but we wish our Dottie Parham the Best!!

01/04/2021

Happy New Year to our friends and clients! We are so looking forward to getting on with, well, so many things.

Cheers to good health, happiness and success in 2021!

12/23/2020

We have the best staff ever. We donate to as many clients as we can through the year but in this difficult holiday year end, the staff, rather than the usual gift cards or other presents, decided to donate to Bread for the City in CELCO's name. It truly is an honor for our management team and a wonderful testament to our staff. Very grateful!

Merry Christmas, everyone.

12/23/2020

We love seeing these big smiles when our clients and friends get their annual CELCO Holiday Pistachios!

12/14/2020

Despite missing each other in person, we had a fun holiday Zoom last Friday. We had Secret Santas, other nice gifts from CELCO, and played BINGO...

We won't embarrass the "re-newed" guy on the block with his mandated video of singing... you know, that one with initials AG....

2020 - you will go down in the books! Despite it all, we are grateful to our staff, clients and peers for helping us make it through.

03/18/2020

Dear Partners and Friends,

As the uncertainty of the global pandemic reaches us in our daily lives we would like to share information that we have gathered internally and from a wide variety of industry leaders who have been meeting on an ongoing basis as this crisis unfolds. These points apply to our piece of the direct response arena, nonprofit fundraising with a particular attention to donor acquisition programs.

 Per our “meetings” little to no groups are cutting acquisition at this point, although many are limiting testing new packages. Depending on market the spring and summer are not typically large package testing months for most mailers.

 The USPS has reported no issues in slowdown and mail is moving on schedule.

 Many organizations are still continuing to proceed with acquisition mailings in place but of course there are a few exceptions. At least one new organizations who have never mail acquisition mail have decided to move their launch until the fall. This is a better mail period any way so this is sound advice.

 Face-to-face channels are shut and expenses are being shifted to other channels (mail, digital and phone). This is a good time to look at these budget and see if you can move these funds to channels that are open and working

 Events are cancelled or are being rescheduled for later dates. Major gift officer travel is suspended. MGOs are calling or emailing their donors as cultivations to check-in. There is much encouragement to try to reach these donors via phone or online.

 Many museums, arts, education and faith-based groups who have suspended their programs, are retooling their messages.

 A survey of printers and mailshops show no problems. All are continuing to run full operations, all report ample supplies of paper, ink, etc.

 During recessions and difficult times, direct mail donors have historically been the strongest donors. There was a discussion about not hesitating in the mail now, because we can’t predict what will happen in a few months.

 Historically mailers who have pulled out or slowed down during a crisis have taken years to recover, if they were ever able to recover. It is not a solution to a complex problem.

 Early email campaigns this week have been surprisingly strong (for both virus-related and non-related messages). They were higher than expected. One fundraiser thought people were paying attention at home as if it was year-end giving!

We would be more than happy to discuss your program in greater detail, the more we know about what you are facing the better we are able to fine tune your individual programs.

05/26/2019

Have a great weekend and remember the brave men and women who fought and sacrificed so much for our country and our freedom. We thank the military for their work today and always.

01/12/2019

National Park Service, state wildlife, Eastern Band and others are working to protect wildlife corridors on I-40 in Western North Carolina.