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From Booking.com to €2 a Day: How We Generated €6,000 in Direct Bookings for a Short-Term Rental in Madonna di Campiglio
The Scenario: Prisoners of OTA Commissions Pietro 2002, following their success in selling villas, manages a prestigious property in Madonna di Campiglio ded...
How to Sell 150 Copies of Your Book in One Month (and Land a 2.5 Million Euro Client)
What you are about to read is one of the projects I am most proud of. Not just for the results it generated, but for the journey that brought us there: a pat...
A Record-Breaking Advertising Brochure: The Secret Behind the 50% Scan Rate in the Bushori Case Study
Why “Paper Is Dead” Is a Distorted Perception The most frequent objection we hear from entrepreneurs is categorical: “Paper is dead, e...
Graphics According to Claude Hopkins: How Design Really Influences Conversions.
Claude Hopkins, along with legendary figures like Albert Lasker and John E. Kennedy, played a foundational role in the evolution of direct marketing. He is f...
Why leaving Italy’s biggest direct marketing company?
When someone leaves a large company, the stories that circulate rarely tell the whole truth. Often, only the version of those who remain is shared. And those...
How an event poster we made on December 31st led to a sell-out in one week
When you find yourself creating a poster on the last day of the year On December 30th, we received a message from Paola, founder of Mindfulness, now Bushori....
Bar marketing: the DRD strategy that turned a low-cost offer into 39 real actions
Conversion rate breakdown: 39 QR scans out of 350 invitations handed out = 11.14%. In this industry, when things are “going well”, the average is...
How DRD design turned a comedy book into a product that “sells itself” (600+ copies in 4 days)
The creator of Veni Vidi Victorr had a dangerous goal: self-publishing a comedy book without it looking like a “self-published comedy book.” The ...
How a DRD tri-fold turned an event into 37 trackable leads
Holiday Albania contacted us after using the same tri-fold brochure at several real-estate events. Visually, it was well done. Clean layout, nice graphics, b...
How a DRD redesign of the price list generated 778 campsite-owner leads for a camper stopover site
Luca’s problem wasn’t getting customers. It was turning that traffic into something he actually owned, independent from social algorithms or platform limits....
6 Golden Rules to Turn Your Book into a Client Magnet
IIn Direct Marketing, there are tools for grabbing attention, tools for building trust… and then there are tools that do both at once. A bookalog is one of t...
How a Direct Response Design postcard made €1,700 for a local personal trainer
Valentino is a personal trainer with a solid local following: happy clients, steady word of mouth, a clean reputation. What he didn’t have was a predictable ...
From an absurd idea to 120 followers in the Telegram group
When the creator of Anubism reached out to us, our first reaction was pretty blunt: we thought it had to be a prank. A “parody religion”? On purpose. Funny, ...
What does an independent book that has sold 2,500 copies look like?
Context The author wanted to create an authoritative book on contemporary wine without falling into the usual institutional aesthetic that dominates the sect...
The 3 things every first-class copywriter should look for in their designer
Dear Direct Response Copywriter, after more than 5 years in this field, having created graphics for the top players in Italian direct marketing and having tr...
How an "Ugly" Flyer Generated €12,000 While the Beautiful One Failed
This flyer isn’t winning design awards. But it generated €12,000 in commissions while the “beautiful” version sat in trash cans. If you wri...
How Top-Series Copywriters Protect and Multiply Their Success in 2025
Today, writing well is no longer enough. In a saturated and hyper-competitive market, true top-tier copywriters do not just create persuasive text: they prot...