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  • "Do You Make This Marketing Mistake?" Harvard Business Review...  By : Kim Klaver
    In a recent piece in the Harvard Business Review, the authors remind us what a normal person wants when they buy something. And no, it is NOT the thing they buy.

    Harvard marketing professor Theodore Levitt, they write, used to tell his students,

    "People don't want to buy a quarter-inch drill. They want a quarter-inch hole!" (Harvard Business Review, 12.05)

    Think about your product. Are you selling its features, benefits, ingredients, or scientific validity? Or are yo...
  • "Even Children's Comic Book Makers Do It..."  By : Kim Klaver
    Well, in Japan, anyway.

    Comic book makers for schoolgirls and boys in Japan offer different fare to boys and girls...so that BOTH groups buy those comics like crazy, not just the traditional boy market.

    In their June "Japanese Schoolgirl Watch," Wired magazine notes, "Anyone who thinks schoolgirls and boys enjoy the same fantasies needs to bone up on shojo manga." The Japanese comics for gals are the antitheses of typical boy titles, they write.

    "In the series for gu...
  • "I Thought 'free' Would Work..." & "The 5 Worst Things"  By : Kim Klaver
    So said a gal who had a big group of folks tell her they wouldn't click on her Orange Ad (see right side of the page there on the NMC site). It said something like:

    Free DVD
    New Nutrition
    breakthrough
    product...

    The gal told the group she figured "free" would work. But the audience didn't agree.

    "I get CDs and DVDs advertising stuff free in the mail, and throw them out," said one. "I don't have time..."

    "Why would I stop everything I'm doing and sit and watch a...
  • "What Makes Network Marketing Good?" #1. Terry's Story.  By : Kim Klaver
    Flexibility. E.g., A chance missed for a newly discarded gal of 63, whose story follows below, to have built up something for herself, from home. But it's never too late...

    Story.

    "I was stunned and devastated when, on our 40th wedding anniversary, my husband presented me with a divorce."

    In a wonderful piece entitled Paradise Lost (Domestic Division) (NY Times Jan 1, 2006) Terry Martin Hekker describes how her entire belief system came undone on that day. It was par...
  • 1 + 1 = 3: Best Practices In Integrated Marketing  By : Laura Lowell
    We're all bombarded with thousands of messages each day – personally and professionally. Some say it's the Internet; some say it's the all the new media channels the Internet has enabled. Whatever the cause, the effect is the same. The volume of marketing messages is overwhelming to most Americans. In fact, 60 percent have signed up for the do-not-call registry; 33 percent have installed Web pop-up blockers, and nine percent have signed on to a do-not-e-mail list (and 40 perc...
  • 1 Surefire Way To Fail In The LED Screens Industry  By : Fabio Aversa
    Yesterday I had an aperitive with one of our Customers and of course we were talking about LED screens. While talking, he told me the story of one of his Clients who installed a LED screen to sell advertising spaces...
  • 10 Additions to Your Mortgage Business Card That Could Improve Your Business  By : Tom Domin
    There are many things you can add to your mortgage business card to assist you in originating mortgages. Here's 10 of them...
  • 10 Advertising Tips!  By : Stiv Medic
    Writing a classified ad to sell your product isn't as hard as you might think, if you spend time researching effective copy writing strategies.

    Here are a few to try NOW!

    1. Never try to sell expensive items from a small classified ad. Use the two step method. Request the reader visit your site for free information or email an auto responder address for more details where you will respond with longer ad copy to effectively sell your product.

    2. Study how other market...
  • 10 Low-Cost Sales Boosters You Don't Want To Overlook  By : Allyn
    It's difficult to reach your business goals if you don't have the right materials and/or the information to help your business reach the success it's capable of. These 10 insights will help you generate the business you've always dreamed of.
  • 10 Marketing Tips For Entrepreneurs  By : Sharif Khan
    Nothing happens in business until a sale is made. Marketing is simply about getting new customers and keeping them. If you’re not doing something everyday to market and promote your business, your competitors are. Here are ten easy-to-implement tips to effectively market and grow your business:

    1. Partner with large email database list owners and offer to cross promote each oher. The list owner will advertise your event, product, or service to their email database and you’...
  • 10 Reasons Presentations Are Your Best Marketing Tool  By : Joseph Sommervillle, PhD
    10 Reasons Presentations give you the advantage when marketing your professional service or product.
  • 10 Reasons Why You Should Be Using Postcards in Your Mortgage Business  By : Tom Domin
    Postcard marketing is one of the most effective ways to keep in touch with your prospects and customers. Here are 10 good reasons to use postcards.
  • 10 Secrets of Trade Show Selling: #10!  By : T Falcon Napier
    This article is about the power of being exclusive. Yes, there is a certain value to snob appeal and we will cover the benefits in this article.
  • 10 Secrets of Trade Show Selling: #2  By : T Falcon Napier
    It’s the same critical rule you have heard time and time again. When it comes to real estate: Location! Location! Location! In this article you will find out why location is so all-important when it comes to the tiny piece of VERY EXPENSIVE real estate a trade show booth represents -- and the strategy for choosing the most productive and profitable -- spot in the room.
  • 10 Secrets of Trade Show Selling: #3  By : T Falcon Napier
    In this article, you will find out why and how to Exploit Your Space.
  • 10 Secrets of Trade Show Selling: #5  By : T Falcon Napier
    Have you ever stopped at a trade show booth because the sign caught your interest and just pulled you right in? There really is a "science to signage" and in this article, you will learn why this is such a key point to understand and implement ... and how to create signage that works!
  • 10 Secrets of Trade Show Selling: #8  By : T Falcon Napier
    There are certain things you do NOT want to do at a trade show. In this article you will learn the most important don't of all!
  • 10 Secrets Of Trade Show Selling: #9  By : T Falcon Napier
    Giving away cheap little gizmos leaves the impression that you are the kind of company that gives away cheap little gizmos. On behalf of everyone attending the show, OUR DRAWERS ARE FULL.
  • 10 Secrets to Trade Show Selling: #6  By : T Falcon Napier
    Have you ever noticed how brilliantly jewelry sparkles when it's in the store's display - and how it never seems to shine as brightly when you get it home? THAT's the power of lighting. In this article, I'll give you some ideas on how you can show yourself in YOUR best light.
  • 10 Special Offers That Can Build Up Spa Business Sales  By : y2m
    Want better marketing material and sales for your spa business? It's easier than you think once you learn some of the special offers and bonuses you could be giving away.
  • 10 Spring Cleaning Tips For Mortgage Professionals  By : Tom Domin
    Spring is the time to clean out all of out-dated tools, procedures and systems that you use to generate mortgage business. This article explains all...
  • 10 Things You Can Do Today to Boost The Effectiveness of Your Marketing Program (Part 1, 1-5)  By : David Poulos
    If you think of your outreach marketing program as the volume control for the information reaching prospective members or customers, it would be a simple impulse to turn up that switch when you needed more members, or wanted to launch a new program - improving your communications in one simple motion.

    Unfortunately it's not really that simple.
  • 10 Things You Can Do Today To Boost The Effectiveness of Your Marketing Program (Part 2, 6-10)  By : David Poulos
    If you think of your outreach marketing program as the volume control for the information reaching prospective members or customers, it would be a simple impulse to turn up that switch when you needed more members, or wanted to launch a new program - improving your communications in one simple motion.

    Unfortunately it's not really that simple.
  • 10 Tricks to Getting More Out of Your Exhibition Stand  By : Paul Symonds
    10 tricks to getting more out of your Exhibition Stand
  • 10 Ways To Ensure Your Flyer Avoids The Bin  By : Chris Riley
    Flyers are an excellent marketing tool to promote a club night or event. They are commonly used for student promotions throughout the country.

    You want your flyers to travel all over town, only you'd probably prefer it wasn't in the dustcart or stuck to the bottom of someone's shoe. What steps can you take to avoid this?

    Here's a few hints and tricks to help your flyers avoid the trash:

    1. Don't miss the boat before you start. Double-check local
    Fresher's week an...
  • 12 Guerrilla Marketing Tips for Small Business Owners  By : Woody Holliman
    Inexpensive & Effective Alternatives to Advertising
  • 12 Sales-Boosting Strategies  By : Alex A. Kecskes
    Want to boost profits and gain market share? Here are some things you can do to gain a bigger piece of the pie.
  • 13 Tips To Crank Up The Heat With Your Marketing  By : Troy White
    Here are 13 things you need to check through to make sure you have implemented them ALL in your business.
  • 15 Low Budget Ways Of Marketing Your Mortgage Business  By : Tom Domin
    Whether you're new to the mortgage business or an old experienced hand at it...one challenge that is always there is...how to inexpensively get the word out about your mortgage business and generate new prospects and customers. This article explains all...
  • 15 Minutes of Bizarre Publicity Beats $1,000,000 of Advertising — Ten Times out of Ten!  By : Ernie Zelinski
    Keeping your product or service in front of the public can be more expensive than ever. Indeed, advertising can be extremely expensive. The good news is that millions of dollars of advertising can’t buy the same results that the best free publicity can give you. If you want to get a lot of great publicity for your product or business, however, you have to do something truly new — even bizarre — to stand out.
  • 2 Step Marketing  By : Joy H. Gendusa
    Marketing is as simple as 1,2…
  • 2 Sure-Fire Methods Proven To Convert More Customers  By : Allyn
    If you're a marketer your number one concern is customers. You've probably read and heard a million and one ideas about how to build relationships, retain customers, create a list of potential customers, and inspire consmer loyalty.
  • 3 Elements That Make Your Ad Successful  By : Allyn
    When was the last time you bought a car? Did you really NEED a car? I mean REALLY need a car? Chances are the one you were driving was still running when you bought the car you have now.
  • 3 "No Sweat" Tactics That Ban Customer Buying Objections  By : Allyn
    It's difficult to reach your business goals if you don't have the right materials and/or the information to help your business reach the success it's capable of. These three insights will help you generate the business you've always dreamed of.
  • 3 Crucial Elements For Jumping Sales Numbers  By : Allyn
    Marketers from every niche have common ground when it comes to bills. Yeah, every month there’s a new stack of bills demanding to be paid.
  • 3 Easy Ways To Crank Up The Sales Volume  By : Allyn
    Okay, okay... the real marketing term here us upsell it, but the word association takes me to McDonalds.
  • 3 Effective Tactics Every Business Should Implement  By : Allyn
    Do you remember your first day as a business owner? You were probably just like the rest of us... pretty darned happy and bit on the proud side.
  • 3 Foolproof Ways To Outsmart Your Competition  By : Allyn
    It's difficult to reach your business goals if you don't have the right materials and/or the information to help your business reach the success it's capable of. These three helpful suggestions will boost your business to new levels.
  • 3 Foolproof Ways To Soar Through A Recession  By : Allyn
    Winners are ALWAYS looking for ways to grow their business. They trust their company, trust their customers to come through for them, and realize that a financial crunch offers advantages that aren't available during better economic times.
  • 3 Marketing Tactics That Will Send Your Sales Through The Roof  By : Allyn
    It's difficult to reach your business goals if you don't have the right materials and/or the information to help your business reach the success it's capable of. These 3 insights will help you generate the business you've always dreamed of.
  • 3 Must-Have Strategies to Stay on the Cutting Edge  By : Allyn
    It's difficult to reach your business goals if you don't have the right materials and/or the information to help your business reach the success it's capable of. These three insights will help you generate the business you've always dreamed of.
  • 3 Must-See Keys For Expanding Your Business  By : Allyn
    It's difficult to reach your business goals if you don't have the right materials and/or the information to help your business reach the success it's capable of. These 3 insights will help you generate the business you've always dreamed of.
  • 3 Perfectly Effective Ways to Lose Customers  By : Allyn
    It's difficult to reach your business goals if you don't have the right materials and/or the information to help your business reach the success it's capable of. These three insights will help you generate the business you've always dreamed of.
  • 3 Plans to Expand You Business That You Don't Want to Miss Out On!  By : Allyn
    It's difficult to reach your business goals if you don't have the right materials and/or the information to help your business reach the success it's capable of. These three insights will help you generate the business you've always dreamed of.
  • 3 Powerful Tactics That Motivate Customers To Buy  By : Allyn
    It's difficult to reach your business goals if you don't have the right materials and/or the information to help your business reach the success it's capable of. These 3 insights will help you generate the business you've always dreamed of.
  • 3 Powerful Ways To Generate Real Estate Leads  By : Lanard Perry
    Leads and leads and leads, oh my!
  • 3 Proven Methods For Turning Away Customers and Losing Money  By : Allyn
    It's difficult to reach your buisness goals if you don't have the right materials and/or the information to help your buisness reach the success it's capable of. These three insights will help you generate the buisness you've always dreamed of.
  • 3 Reasons Postcards Are The Best Way To Advertise  By : Allyn
    It's difficult to reach your business goals if you don't have the right materials and/or the information to help your business reach the success it's capable of. These 2 insights will help you generate the business you've always dreamed of.
  • 3 Steps to Setting Up a "Refer a Friend" Marketing Program  By : Hans Hasselfors
    In today's world, it seems that almost any topic is open for debate. While I was gathering facts for this "refer a friend" marketing program article, I was quite surprised to find some of the issues I thought were settled are actually still being openly discussed.
  • 3 Surefire Ways To Create Your Very Own Hot Prospects For Any Business  By : Yvonne Chihak
    Discover 3 powerful ways to create your own hot prospects for your business.
  • 3 Winning Sales Strategies You Can't Market Without!  By : Allyn
    Anything's tough to do if you don't have the right materials to help you. These three winning marketing strategies are the right materials to an extremely successful buisness.
  • 30 Clients In 30 Days  By : Wayne McDonald
    Yes, you can get thirty new clients each month. It can be as easy as a handshake, a warm smile and your business card.

    Your business card is the most cost-efficient marketing tool for promoting your services. The first rule is do not be cheap. Print a minimum of 1,000 cards. Soon you’ll get the hang of this and you’ll be printing 5,000 at a time.

    The Magic Number is Three

    Every person you meet greet them with a smile, say their name [ask them their name] and hand the...
  • 4 "Sale Thieves" You Need To Be On The Lookout For  By : Allyn
    Many successful marketers began their careers as children setting up a lemonade stand or selling newspapers.
  • 4 Color Printing Can Make Your Documents Sing  By : Ben Franklin
    There's no denying that documents printed using the 4 color printing method look incredible. When the print job is quality, images created using the 4 color printing method tend to look like they're going to jump off the page.
  • 4 Explosive Tips To Dynamite Your Sales Volume  By : Allyn
    Some of the most effective things in life are the simplest. Marketers spend a lot of time trying to understand the psyche of consumers, discover ways to predict economic trends and a million other aspects of business that can determine success. Hey, it pays to remember that some things are just basic, common sense and as easy as pie.
  • 4 Keys to Charming Your Market  By : Allyn
    It's difficult to reach your buisness goals if you don't have the right materials and/or the information to help your buisness reach the success it's capable of. These four competitive marketing strategies are needed to produce an extremely successful buisness.
  • 4 Power-Packed Techniques To Stimulate Customer Buying  By : Allyn
    It's difficult to reach your business goals if you don't have the right materials and/or the information to help your business reach the success it's capable of. These four insights will help you generate the business you've always dreamed of.
  • 4 Secret Selling Techniques You Must Implement  By : Allyn
    It's difficult to reach your business goals if you don't have the right materials and/or the information to help your business reach the success it's capable of. These four insights will help you generate the business you've always dreamed of.
  • 4 Secrets To Building An Engaging Brand Experience  By : Kristie Tamsevicius
    When you think of creating a new brand, it’s easy to think about advertising managers sitting around a conference room tossing around ideas with caffeine fueled creativity. However, often times, the most powerful branding comes from adding a little “fun” to your brand experience.

    Driven by the Burger King mentality, today’s customers want to do business their way on their time. They want to make their own choices. As business people, it’s our job to make sure then when cus...
  • 4 Steps to Laser Precise Ad Tracking & Budget Management  By : Ettione Stuckey
    Ad tracking is a technique used on the Internet by professional promoters to gauge the effectiveness of their ad campaigns. If you're used to promoting offline, just imagine if you could know each time someone read your ad, or opened your mailing. That's the power that ad tracking affords you. Using ad tracking, you can effectively gauge your ad campaigns and manage your budget with laser precision.
  • 4 Things to Avoid When Marketing Your Small Business  By : John Edmond
    Opening a new business is fraught with difficulty, not the least of which is just keeping up with 1001 things that need to be done. This article explains why marketing your small business should be of the highest priority.
  • 4 Tips For Writing Advertisements That Gets Results  By : Wayne Landt
    Learn how to write advertisements that produce results, 4 simple tips to get better response.
  • 4 Tried and True Techniques To Create Loyal, Life-Long Customers  By : Allyn
    It's difficult to reach your business goals if you don't have the right materials and/or the information to help your business reach the success it's capable of. These four insights will help you generate the business you've always dreamed of.
  • 5 Must Ask Questions to Create Effective Advertisements  By : Allyn
    It's difficult to reach your business goals if you don't have the right materials and/or the information to help your business reach the success it's capable of. These five helpful suggestions will boost your business to new levels.
  • 5 Highly Effective Ways To Use Your Mortgage Business Card...Part I  By : Tom Domin
    Your business card can be one of most powerful forms of marketing available to you. Follow these tips to improve your mortgage business...
  • 5 Highly Effective Ways To Use Your Mortgage Business Card...Part II  By : Tom Domin
    Make sure your business card is working for you and not against you. These tips will help...
  • 5 Keys to Capturing Prospective Buyers  By : Allyn
    This article is the key to capturing those prospective buyer's attention, and it shows you the ways to turn them from prospects to clients in five easy to follow steps.
  • 5 Marketing Strategies To Boost Small Business Profits  By : Leslie Hamp
    Small business owners have a wealth of marketing information at their fingertips. Why, then, are so many overwhelmed and confused about which strategies will boost their profits? Learn 5 time-tested tactics to boost business success.
  • 5 Mistakes Biz Owners Make With Their Marketing  By : Michele Pariza Wacek
    Wondering why your marketing isn't working all that well? Never fear, help is here. Today, I'll talk about the top 5 marketing mistakes business owners make.
  • 5 Proven Ways to Waste Advertising Money  By : Allyn
    It's difficult to reach your business goals if you don't have the right materials and/or the information to help your business reach the success it's capable of. These five helpful suggestions will boost your business to new levels.
  • 5 Steps to Seminar Marketing  By : Heather Seitz
    Learn the 5 Simple Steps to marketing and promoting your very own seminar, workshop or bootcamp and how to extract the most money each and every time.
  • 5 Tips On Making Your Business Card A Powerful Marketing Tool  By : John Harley
    When used effectively business cards can be a great marketing tool. In this article we will discuss 5 of the most effective ways that you can use your business cards everyday.

    1. Be Creative.

    Be creative in the design of your business cards. Business cards do not just need to be bits of paper with your contact details on them. Be creative and give your business cards a use and purpose. Make them a powerful marketing tool in the promotion of your business.

    Your aim is...
  • 5 Tips to Get More Results from Your Marketing Materials  By : Michele Pariza Wacek
    Wondering why it's so difficult to get your buyers to actually buy from you? It's probably the words you're using. Here are 5 tips that can hep you improve the conversions of your web sites, brochures and other marketing materials.
  • 5 Top Product Promotion Strategies  By : Vincent Murphy
    One of the biggest myths of the Internet is the good old line, “If you build it they will come …” So many people throw up a website and sit back rubbing their hands with glee convinced they are going to become supremely wealthy.

    Months later they are wringing their hands with regret wondering why they’ve had five visitors, four of which were their friends!

    A website does not just automatically appear high in the search engine rankings and get traffic, you have to do som...
  • 5 Ways of Using Direct Marketing  By : William Dupree
    Direct marketing is the best way to attract and obtain clients.
  • 5 Ways To Improve The Success Of Your Trade Show Booth  By : David Branson
    It's important to remember that participating in a successful trade show requires a lot of time and effort. Underestimating the preparation and the planning necessary for a trade shows is one of the more common reasons that businesses are not successful. If you are going to invest money in a trade show booth, you will also have to invest your time, effort and creativity in order to obtain the desired effect. A good trade show booth can make the difference between a good exper...
  • 5 Ways to Make Your Event - THE Event!  By : Dannielle Brantley
    Your business 'show' cannot be ignored and can be as creative, different and innovative as you and your team are. One of the funnest (Is this a word?) ways is to throw an event sponsored by your company. Here are 5 ways to make your event, THE event...
  • 5 Ways To Win Blind Bureaucracy And Get The LED Screens Authorization  By : Fabio Aversa
    As we can very well understand from the experience of many LED screens entrepreneurs, if you live in a Country were there is not a precise law regulating the installation of LED screens, than submitting the proposal can be very frustrating. Here's a list of what you have to do to increase your chances to get the authorization.
  • 5 Winning Strategies For MLM Success  By : Allyn
    Sure you want everyone to benefit from the opportunity for freedom you have to offer, but face it... not everyone has an interest in extracting themselves from their comfort zone. Successful MLM marketers are willing to step out on a limb, and to change themselves. No, it's not for everyone.
  • 5 Words You Should Never Use In Your Mortgage Marketing Material  By : Tom Domin
    How do you make your mortgage advertising and mortgage message standout from this never ending unrelenting horde? This article explains all...
  • 50 Free Or Cheap Advertising Ideas For Offline and Online Marketing!  By : Joe Rispoli
    Tips, ideas, strategies, and helpful information on how to advertise and market your business for free (or really cheap).
  • 6 Critical Steps Allow You To Expand Your Prospect Base By Narrowing Your Marketing Focus  By : Doren Aldana
    If you market to everyone, “your client will be no one." This is an old saying that is as true today as it was whenit was first spoken. Mortgage professionals waste an immense amount of their marketing dollars on ineffective advertising that blasts their general message to the entire marketplace. This is commonly referred to as "spraying and praying" in the marketing world.

    The Solution: Niche Marketing

    Niche marketing on the other hand, allocates a smaller portion of y...
  • 6 Postcard Marketing Tips That Can Improve Your Mortgage Business  By : Tom Domin
    If you're currently involved in a postcard marketing campaign or just thinking about starting one, here are some significant tips you can add to your knowledge base that will help make your mortgage marketing efforts a real winner. This article explains all...
  • 6 Reasons Why You Should Use Magnetic Mortgage Signs  By : Tom Domin
    One of the best decisions you can make if you're originating mortgages is to invest in a quality set of magnetic car signs. Here are the details to get you started...
  • 6 Ways To Guarantee Record Breaking Holiday Sales!  By : Allyn
    It's difficult to reach your business goals if you don't have the right materials and/or the information to help your business reach the success it's capable of. These six insights will help you generate the business you've always dreamed of.
  • 7 "Quick Fixes" Every Marketer Needs To Know About  By : Allyn
    When your profits begin a downhill slide or just seem at a stalemate, you scratch your head and ask a thousand times, "What am I doing wrong?" Well, the truth is that you may not be doing anything "wrong", but there may be some things you could do to bring about a change.
  • 7 Cost-Effective Marketing Tips  By : Kathleen Gage
    Most entrepreneurs realize the need to market, yet they often don’t know what to do or are on a limited budget. Learn 7 cost-effective proven strategies to market virtually any business.
  • 7 Effective Strategies for Seminar Marketing  By : Susanna Strandberg
    7 strategies to making a great home based busines in the seminar consultation business.
  • 7 Key Tactics For The Small Business Owner  By : Allyn
    For most folks, owning your own business is a dream come true. The freedom of being your own boss and succeeding to the best of your ability are facts of life for the small business owner.
  • 7 Mortgage Marketing Tips for Loan Officers  By : ameen kamadia
    Mortgage Marketing Tips That Any Loan Officer Can Use To Boost Their Business Today!
  • 7 Myths That Will Destroy Your Marketing Campaign  By : Penny Sansevieri
    Book marketing expert shares insider information on how NOT to destroy your campaign
  • 7 Questions Consumers Ask Before Buying Your Product  By : Allyn
    It's difficult to reach your business goals if you don't have the right materials and/or the information to help your business reach the success it's capable of. These insights will help you generate the business you've always dreamed of.
  • 7 Reasons Why Loan Officers Should Not Market to Realtors  By : Joe Pahl
    This article expresses why marketing to real estate agents is not always the best option and explores seven other ways to generate purchase business.
  • 7 Strategies for Loan Officers to Guarantee an Awesome 2006  By : Joe Pahl
    With the coming high interest rate market, loan officers who follow these seven strategies will guarantee having a successful 2006. The stratgies include new technology, proper planning, business referral groups, and maximizing your "geese that lays golden eggs" among others.
  • 7 Tips To Save Money on Marketing a Business  By : Sevim OR
    Here are some tips to help you save money on marketing your business without sacrificing quality or results. In fact, some of them are very affective to boost your business cost effectively and fast.
  • 8 Direct Mail Secrets For A Higher Response Rate  By : Peter Geisheker
    To be successful with direct mail sales letters, there are several strategies you can use to increase response rates:

    1. At the top of your sales letter, use a strong headline that states the most important benefit you are offering. This headline should be bold and a larger font size than the font size you use for the body text in your sales letter.

    2. When writing your sales letter, use a friendly conversational style. Do not try to write "corporate" where you use larg...
  • 9 Product Naming Tips  By : Alex A. Kecskes
    A brief overview that will help guide you through the subtleties of product naming. You’ll learn the importance of choosing a name that’s unique and benefit oriented, without being confusing or offensive—with some amusing examples of historic naming gaffes. You’ll also learn why fads, abbreviations and tongue twisters should be avoided. And why the name you ultimately choose must protect your company’s image.
  • 9 Unusual Ways To Use Postcards In Your Mortgage Business  By : Tom Domin
    Traditionally, we use postcards in our mortgage business to pass along holiday greetings, reminders, and general information. Here are a few unusual ways you can use postcards in your mortgage business...
  • 900 Numbers for Television  By : Robert Bentz
    900 numbers are a great way to gauge public opinion, especially during live television events.
  • A Beginner's Guide to Business Branding  By : Woody Holliman
    How to Make Your Company Stand Out from the Competition
  • A Better Question?  By : Kim Klaver
    In John Battelle's searchblog blog this week, he writes that he urged the MacArthur Foundation to spend some money helping students, among other things, learn to ask better questions, rather than regurgitating answers they've been taught.

    "...as many wiser than I have noted through the course of history, the most creative act a human can engage in is not repeating an answer, it is forming a good question."

    Questions are the answer. Have you heard that too? Because your ...
  • A Better Way of Finding Hot Real Estate Leads  By : Gaetane Ross
    If you're a real estate agent, you must have said this more than once:There has got to be a better way for finding leads.
  • A Blindingly Stupid Example of Change Management  By : Dutch Holland
    Organizations that attempt big change initiatives without thinking things through often look very foolish. This example of one typical snafu can teach a lot about managing change effectively.
  • A Clever Way Copy Writers Can Strengthen Their Marketing: See Yourself As the Product!  By : Chris Marlow
    How copy writers can use a Creative Brief to sharpen yheirr positioning in their marketplace.
  • A Clever Way Service Professionals Can Strengthen Their Marketing: See Yourself As the Product!  By : Chris Marlow
    Take your usual run-of-the-mill Creative Brief or Project Brief and use it to strengthen the most important aspects of your own personal marketing!
  • A Fellow Marketer Chided Me The Other Day...  By : Kim Klaver
    "Want to recruit 8 out of 10 people?"
    (http://kimklaverblogs.blogspot.com/2007/01/want-to-recruit-8-out-of-10-people.html)

    He sells training programs to networkers, like I do, and thought the post was too negative.

    "Motivate people to do it," he wrote me, "and let the natural order of things weed them out..."

    Motivate people to do it. (Buy the program, buy into the deal, etc.)

    If that is someone's marketing goal, it would explain the uber-hype and big promises in...
  • A Guide To Marketing  By : Derek Both
    Marketing is not a new idea but it has a history almost as long as humanity itself. Some will see it as the art of selling, while others will see it as having much wider application and will include advertising and promotion of a product or service under the heading. Marketing is also about customer service and customer satisfaction; managing that relationship has to be part of the process.
  • A Logo Isn't A Tattoo! Why Your Personal Tastes Have Nothing To Do With Your Logo  By : Erin Ferree
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