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How To Get To The Top of The Marketing Food Chain

Are you tired of living off handouts from big-name marketers, earning meager affiliate commissions?

Using Direct Mail

The advantages of using direct mail to promote your home-based or small business are:

A Forgotten Marketing Tool ? The Postcard

The postcard can be a very powerful Internet marketing or Internetmarketing tool. Many of our customers and/or students use them in their business. The key is to set up the card to market effectively for you. Concentrate on a specific item or niche.

Modern Marketing With Postcards

Postcards may be one of the best kept secrets of modern Internet marketing or Internetmarketing. They produce even better results now than in the past. That's probably because postcards deliver information the way people want to get it today ...fast and with little or no effort.

Costly Web Copy Pitfalls

One secret to a site that sells: Look at your site from your customer?s perspective. Another secret: Watch out for these common web copy pitfalls.

Five Steps to a Web Site That Sells

I?m always amazed that people would spend months to develop their web site, pay thousands of dollars to have it put together and then... they just let it sit in the cyber space without generating any new leads.

How to Market and Protect Your New Ideas

The intellectual property transfer market is now estimated to be worth over $100 billion. If you have a new idea, a patent or an invention, you may be able to license it or sell it for millions of dollars. Many Fortune 500 companies are now making their intellectual property available for sale or licensing at new online intellectual-property exchanges. These companies are trying to maximize their return on research and development investment and generate a new source of revenue by licensing their unused and underutilized inventions to others.

How Your List Affects Postage Costs

HOW YOUR LIST AFFECTS POSTAGE COSTS AND WHAT YOU CAN DO ABOUT IT!

Pre-Cleaning and Updating Addresses in Your Database

When you send a direct mail piece using the Addressed Admail reduced postage option, it can cost you anywhere from 60 cents to $1.25 or more for printing, mail production and postage. Items that cannot be delivered will be ?recycled? by Canada Post resulting in your money going down the drain. Not only that, without updating your database you will continue to spend money on undeliverable advertising.

Practical Advice to Generate Successful Campaigns Using Merged Lists

You could end up with poor results when designing a direct mail campaign that combines your inhouse list with one or more rented lists. Merging lists generates a set of conditions that you may not have thought about at the conception stage. It is better to face the challenges before finalizing your design and strategy to avoid last minute alterations that so often occur. Once you determine your strategy, we strongly suggest you rent your lists early and work closely with the personnel handling your data processing.

Write Better Web Content

If you?re reading this article, chances are that you, like most professionals these days, understand the value of the Internet. It may be where you go to buy movie or concert tickets, browse restaurant menus, or plan your vacations. Most likely, you also turn to the Web to research business strategies, vendors and other companies.

Refresh Your Web Site

So you have a Web site. And so does most every business these days. But what you really need is a way to set your business apart from the competition, an online presence that will keep clients and prospects coming back again and again.

The Magic of Keep-in-Touch Marketing

Yesterday I received a phone call from an acquaintance that I?ve met once or twice but haven?t seen in over a year. She wanted to let me know that she was referring me to a client of hers who needed help with his Web site copy. Although I hadn?t thought about her in months, she mentioned that she?d received a postcard from me for the past two quarters ? and that?s why she instantly thought of my services when her client voiced his need. Although it wasn?t really magic, it sure felt like it. That?s the magic of keep-in-touch Internet marketing or Internetmarketing ? people remember you and feel like they know you, and eventually, they often give you business or refer others to you.

Why Direct Mail Advertising Works And How To Lower Your Costs

I met a lady who said she received a notice in the mail from a company offering plaques of various animals. She knew her daughter would love them as a gift and ordered them. This lady said, "I don't know how they got my name but I sure am pleased to have found out about those beautiful plaques, my daughter just loves them."

Top Four Marketing Secrets of Building a Professional Practice

Building a coaching or consulting practice can be rewarding and lucrative. Sadly, many who get started on this path simply can?t make it. Almost daily I talk to people who give up on their dream of ?solopreneurship? and, resentfully, join the ranks of job seekers.

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