How Grinnell College Used Anniversary Merch to Celebrate 40 Years of the Stonewall Resource Center

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Challenge: Celebrate a Legacy While Connecting Generations For 40 years, Grinnell College‘s Stonewall Resource Center has provided a place where students can find connection, support, and a sense of belonging. To commemorate the Center’s anniversary, Grinnell partnered with Magellan to create a collection of branded merch that celebrated the Center’s legacy while connecting current students, […]

Opening Doors: How a Pop-Up Admit Pack Put Florida Polytechnic University on the Map

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Challenge: Building Brand Recognition for Florida’s Only All-STEM Public University Florida Polytechnic University is the only public, all-STEM university in Florida. But at just 12 years old, the institution faced a significant hurdle that no amount of academic distinction could solve on its own: many prospective students and their families simply didn’t know about it. […]

Stevenson University Streamlines Accepted Student Flag Mailings with Slate Integration

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Challenge: Creating a Faster, More Efficient Accepted Student Outreach Process  For Stevenson University, accepted student outreach needed to happen quickly and consistently to keep admitted students engaged during the enrollment journey. Since 2021, Stevenson has partnered with Magellan to create an accepted-student flag mailing that helps students celebrate their admission and take the next step […]

How Lawrence University Built a Multi-Touchpoint Admissions Strategy from Admit to Arrival

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Challenge: Creating Consistent Engagement Across the Admissions Journey Lawrence University set out to solve a broader challenge than any single stage in the funnel: how to create consistent, meaningful engagement from first touch through enrollment. Like many institutions, they faced pressure at multiple points in the admissions journey. Sparking excitement with admitted students. Converting admits […]

Packed with Pride: A Move-In Bag That Goes the Distance

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Challenge: Meeting students at the moments that matter most Syracuse University’s Whitman School of Management needed a branded item that could serve a very specific purpose: welcoming admitted students into the Whitman community in a way that felt genuine and lasting. When a student is admitted to Whitman, they’re invited to on-campus recruitment events to […]

Variable Data Best Practices

  • At the quoting stage of your project, please let us know how many fields of variable data your piece will have as this can affect pricing.
  • Data should be provided to us as an Excel spreadsheet with only the applicable data included.
  • Verbiage for variable data fields on artwork file should match up exactly with data fields on spreadsheet.
  • Spacing on artwork must allow for longest data entries. We recommend that your designer tests this in advance to confirm that the fields in the design can fit your longest pieces of data.

Postage Permits

We are happy to mail using a client’s USPS non-profit number. Here are a few best practices for this to go smoothly. Let our team know up front on the project so we can make sure to get the information we need right away. 

While our mail house does prefer to use their permit number for the mailing, we can use the client’s permit, If using their permit number, ensure there is enough postage to cover the mailing.

The information we need to in order to use a client’s nonprofit number includes the following:

Formatting the Mailing List

Our account team will advise on specific requirements for your project’s mailing list.  We generally recommend these best practices to format the mailing list: