Tag Archives: Direct Response Marketing

Are You A Student of Your Business or Are You Missing Something?

Are you a ravenous student who just can’t seem to get enough books, tapes and courses in your niche, field, or in some topic area that makes a big difference in your business?  Or, is the idea of reading a book, listening to an educational CD or DVD, or going to a seminar or workshop,…

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Book Review of “Million Dollar Consulting” by Alan Weiss

Wow, 384 pages of relatively small print. This was a good book, filled with a lot of great consulting tips, strategies, and advice on topics I hadn’t even imagined. That said, I have to tell you I thought I might never finish it, but I did…over time. It’s not so much the size of the…

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Information Marketing and “The Cave Man”

Information Marketing has actually been around since the Stone Age.  Think about it…. The “first man” discovered that if he (or she) rounded the edges on a stone and rolled it, it would move much easier than an object that has square corners or any corners at all.  As this inventor worked on changing transportation…

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Book Review of “Make ‘Em Laugh & Take Their Money” by Dan S. Kennedy

“Make ‘Em Laugh & Take Their Money” by Dan S. Kennedy, is a book all about using humor in your marketing and your speaking.  It is written in vintage Dan Kennedy style so if you don’t like Dan, and the way he writes or speaks, you probably won’t like this book either. However, if you…

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Marketers Have Success, Then Stop Doing What Worked

It doesn’t matter what level of market er you are, you either have already, or will at some point in your career, make this mistake. You are going along and things are going pretty well. You’re in the middle of a marketing campaign and you’re getting good results with what you’re doing.  You get through…

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Book Review of “Learning How To Avoid The Gap” by Dan Sullivan

“Learning How To Avoid The Gap” by Dan Sullivan is a small, quickly read book packed with powerful strategies (and by now you know how much I like strategy). At only 30 pages, I’m not sure it should even count as having read a book, but the information packed inside of it certainly does. The…

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No Follow-Up

You just made some sales, whether it was from the platform, on a teleseminar, after sending an email or your online newsletter, or from a direct mail piece.  It doesn’t matter how you made the sales, you’re feeling pretty good about it.  Most marketers think this is the end of the road, that their work…

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Power Up Your Engines

Your Business Spaceship, “MSS Info-preneur,” Is Ready To Blast Off! What Would Happen If You Fell Into One Of The 10 Most Common Marketing Black Holes? Imagine that you get into your 2011 model “marketing spaceship,” named “MSS Info-preneur” and you point it straight at the million dollar solar-mass black hole, in the center of…

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If It Works, Do More Of It, Don’t Stop

Sometimes we can’t see the forest for the trees. I am always amazed when I see a client, marketer, or entrepreneur stop doing what’s working.  And, sometimes I even begin to twitch when they give me the reason they stopped. I got a frantic call from an associate not too long ago.  He was in…

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Are You Making These Marketing Mistakes . . .

If you own a business of any kind, you should be using direct response marketing as your primary means of advertising. Most of what you see in everyday advertising is what is referred to as image advertising.  In other words, all the advertising does is bring brand or store name recognition.  The problem with this…

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