To the small business owner, marketing can seem like a huge expense, with unpredictable results. However, if you contact the right people with the right information your marketing activities will not fail. It can be that simple! 1) Targeting: no message will work if it is sent to the wrong person! Before planning any communication, [...]

Now that you know how important it is to build relationships in your business, let’s look at how to build them. Essentially you should be making the most of any opportunity to contact your clients, past clients or prospects with information and ideas… Never send an invoice without including some small message or personal greeting. [...]

If you have been reading my newsletter for a while, then hopefully you know what your prospect is thinking when they read your messages.. …are they thinking, “Wow, I would like to find out as much as possible about this company”?  No! They are, of course, thinking “What’s in it for me?”. So, let’s say you [...]

Ask almost any business owner whether their marketing materials should feature long or short copy, and their answer will almost certainly be: “My clients just don’t have time to read long copy”. Which is strange, really, because research and testing has proven time and time again that long copy outsells short copy almost unfailingly. Yes, [...]

Are you tired of wasting money on marketing that doesn’t get results? Direct marketing, or direct response marketing, is a technique that will help you make every marketing dollar work harder. Because direct marketing doesn’t just focus on creating catchy taglines and cool graphics (although those are important too!). In direct marketing we look for: [...]