If you’re using the quiet days between Christmas and New Year (or even early January) to plan and prepare for marketing success in 2014… …here are some pieces you might find thought-provoking and useful. First up… …probably the highest payoff action will be to map out a marketing calendar for the year ahead. Here’s a […]
Looking Ahead – Marketing Calendar September 2013
Welcome to the regular “Looking Ahead” feature where we consider the coming month, September 2013… …and the events, occasions, anniversaries and holidays that smart direct response marketers can use as the foundation for event-driven marketing promotions. It’s a time of a change of seasons… …Autumn in the north and Spring in the south… …and these […]
3 Points For More Persuasive Copy
When you write copy, you are first and foremost looking to make a sale. And often in looking to make the sale, we need to persuade the person that we are addressing that they need to make a change. That’s most obviously the case when selling any kind of personal development product… …but it applies […]
Crocodile Marketing Conference – Sunday Morning Session
“Discounting is EVIL!” – copywriter Pete Godfrey Well, after a raucous Saturday evening (so I’m told…yours truly retired at a relatively early hour)… …the Wizard himself, Pete Godfrey, presented the first session on Sunday morning. “Reinventing Your Marketing” …was the theme. Summarising the session…
Crocodile Marketing Conference – Saturday Afternoon Session
“Anything that gets in the way of allowing the money to come in is EVIL!” – Pete Godfrey Two sessions this afternoon… …and in a change of schedule Pete Godfrey delivered his “Cash Copy Made Easy” presentation. I guess Pete and Dave made a call on the level of experience of the audience and decided […]