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1761. What Makes Your Online Ads Persuasive?
      The first impression that the people get from your ad decides if they click or skip. This shows that writing really persuasive ads is not easy. Writing irrestisible internet ads needs some skills. You can acquire these skills, if you follow some rules.Simplify your messageFocus on your customers need! What are they looking for? What is special on your website for your customers? Write a simple language with common words. Use verbs more often than…



1762. How to Create a Countdown Marketing Calendar By Catherine Franz
      Just like there are reverse dictionaries, there is a reason to create a count down calendar. A count down calendar starts with Franklin Covey’s philosophy, "start with the end in mind." The biggest advantage to a countdown calendar is that it makes you think and focus harder as well as makes the planning easier. First, you write down the exact results you want or expect. Let’s say you have a teleclass, seminar, speaking engagement you are de…



1763. Registration Forms: How to Make Them Irresistible with Scarcity By Bill Flagg
      "Space is limited so register now" is a powerful statement to motivate registrants. Scarcity statements like these make events appear more exclusive, important, and popular. They create a sense of urgency that will cause potential registrants to act now!Demonstrate ScarcityThe more clearly you can demonstrate that your event is exclusive - and that only a select few can attend - the faster people will sign-up. You can add believability to your…



1764. Make Your Mailing A Home Run, Not A Strike Out!
      You can use great design and copy to get a better response.When you send a mailing to your customers or prospective customers you are counting on making considerably more money in new business than you spend on the mailing, right? It is obvious that if you were not going to profit from the mailing, you wouldn’t send it out.A little less obvious is that it costs almost the same amount of money to send out a very attractive mailing piece with brill…



1765. Three Simple Keys Will Make Your Customers Stick By Denise O'Berry
      Do you spend a lot of time and energy courting prospective new customers, hoping to pump up your bottom line? If so, you're probably missing an untapped source of sales that exists right inside your company -- there's truth in the statement that your customer list is your most valuable asset.There's a gold mine of opportunities to make easier sales and create a loyal following of customers that will return time and again by using your existing …



1766. Funnel Your Way to Marketing Success By Michael Daehn
      A funnel is a good way to think of the marketing process. The top is very broad and consists of using mass marketing techniques. Mass marketing includes items like mass mailings, national advertising, billboards, and airing commercials during the Super Bowl. The marketing message is sent to a broad audience with little or no discretion. Mass marketing is very expensive, difficult to evaluate, and has a low return on investment. Mass market…



1767. 15 Ways to Promote eLearning Programs By Catherine Franz
      Pre-note: In this article, teleclass is an example used to illustrate one type of eLearning market. The tips work the same for other eLearning programs, including, but not limited to, teleseminars and ecourses.In the mid-1990s, the teleclass format began and was named, distance learning. During these early years, learning institutions, particularly universities, were chief users of this format. Mainly due to the large equipment investment n…



1768. Money Making Real Estate Marketing Ideas By Lanard Perry
      Real estate marketing is a lot simpler than most Realtors make it out to be. Some equate expensive products and services with quality.However, effective real estate marketing does not have to be expensive, complicated, or sophisticated. Sometimes, plain, simple, direct and to the point makes lasting impressions that result in increased business opportunities and more income.One of the most effective real estate marketing ideas involves E…



1769. Small Business Marketing Tip #4: Ego Normous – Learn Marketing From The King By Jimmy Vee
      I was reading the latest edition of Adverting Age magazine, an industry pub for us advertising nut-cases. Actually, I’m not real fond of the journal – too much junk about big brands and million dollar budgets. Not really the game most of our clients play in.But there was an interesting story I thought I’d share with you…The story is about the battle between Burger King and their National Franchisee Organization.The two organizations are fightin…



1770. The Dare-To-Be-Different In Marketing Checklist By Catherine Franz
      There is a big payoff in being different. When you accept "what is" you place yourself in the category of "sameness," and people don't buy sameness. Why should they? They can do sameness themselves. If your prospects aren't seeing the value you offer, you may be coming across as the same and not daring to be different. Dare yourself to be different in promoting yourself, your services or your products. It doesn't matter if you are an empl…



1771. A Great Marketing Model – Utilizing the Power of OPM By Kathleen Gage
      Staying ahead of the marketing curve seems to be a never-ending quest. Marketing doesn’t have to be as complex as some people make it out to be. It’s simply a matter of understanding who you are marketing to – your ideal customers – and then coming up with a system that keeps your name in front of them. A huge part of the system is creating enough value for your customers that they want to hear from you.Another aspect of marketing is knowing ho…



1772. At the Speed of Light By Keith Thirgood
      How many times has someone you've called said, "Why don't you send me some information on your company"?Ask yourself, before you send anything: How will this be dealt with once it arrives at that person's desk. Aren't they already suffering from information overload? On the one hand, people say they they need more information in order to make the decision just to meet with you, let alone to agree to buy or hire. On the other, they have mor…



1773. The Death of Product Packaging as We Know It. By JoAnn Hines
      It used to be you that if you had a great product you put it in a package and voila! . . .someone would come along and buy it. That is not the case any more. The package not only has to protect the product and allow for its tracking, it has to sell it too. Most importantly, the package has to capture someone's attention in less than three seconds.Consider the last time you went shopping. Were there any new products that jumped at you off the s…



1774. The Mighty Marketing Newsletter By Neil Sagebiel
      For many companies and organizations, it’s a powerful marketing tool that attracts and retains customers. I’m referring to the dependable, hard-working newsletter.On the subject of newsletters, guerilla marketing guru Jay Conrad Levinson says, “It's a way of staying in touch, proving your expertise, giving beneficial information and gaining confidence.”Newsletters can be used for marketing, public relations, sales support, associations, or many…



1775. Step by Step Guide to an SMS Campaign By Kath Pay
      SMS is good for:• Short lead times and immediacy • Cost effective personalised communication • Ongoing 1 to 1 relationships • Automated data capture and compliance • Direct revenue and uplift opportunitiesBasic Rules for SMSIn addition to permission, there are five key elements that differentiate SMS marketing from traditional marketing. These are also the key success factors for its use. A minimum of 2 factors is necessary for a successful cam…



1776. Plant a Seed and Watch Your Business Grow By Cynthia Morse
      Do you have all the business you could possibly want or need? If you're like me, you're still growing your business. Marketing is an ongoing item on my agenda, and I'm always looking for new ways to market my services. Where do you begin the process of attracting more business? How do you get the ball rolling in the direction you want your business to be heading? Well, it's really simple. Start planting seeds! If you can start your garden growi…



1777. Global Market in the Cyber world—Go and Get It ! By Ray Smith
      With the Internet opening up the doorway to the global market, everybody is up and running to reap the maximum benefit of this widely used medium. Not only has Internet gained importance as an important medium of communication but also has given a platform to thousands of people to nurture their entrepreneurship and realize their dreams of self-employment.The designer community is the group that are harvesting the maximum benefit in this global…



1778. Secret of Strategy - Part 2 By Paul Lemberg
      How to Create Strategies That Work In Today's Markets. Of course you've heard that when you do what you've always done, you'll likely get what you've always got. In this case that means playing the tactical game: coming up with acceptable--or worse--comfortable options and executing them as time permits. Likely, what you'll get is business as usual, and things will be... well, they'll be fine.But "fine" may not be what you're after, and you are…



1779. The Mighty Marketing Brochure By Neil Sagebiel
      "Brochure" is French, and it comes from brocher, meaning to stitch. According to The American Heritage Dictionary, a brochure is "a small booklet or pamphlet, often containing promotional material or product information."Accurate, yes. And also incomplete.For one thing, brochures aren’t always small. Sometimes they’re quite large. As for brochure contents, they vary greatly depending on the situation. A brochure definitely can be more than a pa…



1780. 9 Highly Effective Marketing Tips By Bob Leduc
      Here are 9 low-cost but highly effective marketing tips to help you boost your sales and profits fast.Tip 1: Look for some low-cost ways you can enhance the perceived value of your product or service. Then test raising your price. Don't be surprised if both your sales and your profit margin go up.Tip 2: Try to limit your customer's decision making to either "Yes. I'll buy." or "No. I won't buy". Don't risk losing them by including "which one" d…



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