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.

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 [...]

Direct Mail is Still Powerful for Small (and Large) Businesses

Here’s a piece I got through “snail mail”. And it’s so powerful I’m going to take them up on their offer.
It’s important to point out that if I got this same offer through an email, I wouldn’t have paid attention.
I know, because I get email offers from my local “big box” office supply store, book [...]

Believability in Direct Marketing

Recently, I consulted a client selling a weight loss tea.
Their current control lacked credibility all over the entire microsite (long form sales letter on one webpage asking for a sale).
And believe it or not there are numerous medical studies, from Europe, the US, China, and Japanese Universities, suggesting that certain teas (their’s in particular) have [...]

Use Magazines as a Marketing Weapon

When you’re putting together a promotion you need a Headline.
It’s vital. Ads, sales letters, special reports, white papers, TV and radio spots, even your email subject lines. They all must use a headline. There are exceptions, but lets focus on the obvious here.
Research suggests that over 80% of people will read your headline, first. If [...]

Predictions in Marketing, Business Building, and Killer Copy

Creating new sales angles or ideas should be easy. As an entrepreneur or marketing executive you know the value of breaking from the pack of “me too” competitors.
“Me too” as in — 20% off, Weekend Sale, buy one get one free, we’re the best, lowest price, best selection, etc. That stuff puts your clients to [...]

Promote and Advertise with Current Events

How to quickly come up with an inexpensive marketing promotion with leverage.