How Short Copy Can Create Exclusitivity For Your Product Or Service

How to create the aura of exclusivity for your product or service – which allows you to charge more money and be more profitable

How Short Laser Focused Copy Can Sell Complex Products

How to find great marketing ideas and burn a few calories by window shopping. Part 1 of 4 where a product’s sales copy is broken down and analyzed so you can use the concepts in your own marketing and promotions.

Direct Mail for Recessions

How targeting direct mail can save on cost and improve ROI.

Email Marketing Campaigns: How Do You Define Success?

Marketing campaigns leave clues that can be used and built upon to help make future campaigns more successful.

Follow Up Messages and Confirmation Calls in Marketing Part IV

Adding a special gift or bonus to close a sale often increases overhead and sales cost. Bonuses, also, can never guarantee a closed sale nor an increase in sales. So, are bonuses and special gifts worth the increased time and expense?

Follow Up Messages and Confirmation Calls in Marketing

Marketing and Advertising attracts potential business — This mini-article describes one marketing area to help close the sale. Attracting business is vital. However, you are paid to close the sale. The mini-article describes an easy yet overlooked area to get a jump in closed sales and/or conversions of leads…

The Frame in Direct Response Marketing

Stereotypes and prejudices usually have a bad connotation. They can be thoughts or feelings about a people or a person that degrades them to a degree.
To some extent we all have them, don’t we? It’s important you understand this in marketing your product or service. You can use it to your advantage.
But the first question [...]

Keep it Simple in Marketing and Business

Life’s complicated enough.
Keeping your business simple can mean more money!
Too many times you see business owners, entrepreneurs, employees, and managers complicating things. Sometimes I’m criticized by friends and colleagues for making things too simple.
Well, I always prefer to err on the side of simplicity than wastefulness.
I don’t own a cell phone. I destroyed my pager [...]

4 B2B Tactics To Use AFTER You Lose a Proposal

You can’t win them all.
And so what? You got to keep truckin’ along. That’s what separates professionals from amateurs. At the same time, though, you don’t want to spin your gears, waste time, or work any harder than you need to.
Here are 4 simple tactics to use AFTER you lose a contract, proposal, or bid. [...]

Should You Be Two-Faced In Direct Marketing?

The answer is Yes. But would you like to know why? First, this has nothing to do with honesty. Nothing at all…
I’m looking through my local paper’s Personal’s Section. I’m not looking for a date. But let’s say I was…
Who would I look for? Who would you look for? Hmm?
Woman, Man? Tall Dark And Handsome? [...]