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If Marketing is an Expense, Then You're Doing It Wrong

What do many companies do when sales are low?They cut costs, all costs, even marketing costs. They say, "Marketing is an expense. We're cutting expenses. Period."WHEN YOU THINK OF MARKETING AS AN EXPENSEIn accounting, sure, marketing IS an expen...

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It's Better to Ask than Assume The Power of Market Research.

©It’s Better to Ask than Assume.(The Power of Market Research.)No doubt about it. Smart marketing takes finesse. Nowhere is that truism more apt than in message definition. If you want to craft a compelling message, you need to understand you...

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Put Muscle on Your News Proposal

Let’s say your company is opening a new widget plant. Immediately, you have change, which is one of the four basic elements of news.But change is also the most common of these four elements, and thus the weakest. You should search for other element...

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Write News Proposals, Not Press Releases

There are only two times to write a news release.The first is when your story is so big that your only real problem is finding a room large enough to hold all the reporters who want to attend your press conference.The other is when your news is so sm...

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The Elusive Autoresponder Will Your Business Die Without

Yes, it very well could die an extremely slow death.Did you know that it takes the average buyer 7 exposuresto your offer before they will make a purchase.Just think, if you have a measly 100 responses to your offerin a weeks time that would be 700 l...

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When Avon Doesn't Call A Lesson For Internet Marketers

Probably most of you have heard of Avon Products, Inc. Founded over 100 years ago as a small perfume company, Avon has grown into a huge multi-billion dollar corporation that sells products ranging from cosmetics to clothing, jewelry and knickknacks ...

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10 Clever Ways To Boost Your Orders!

1. Divide your price over a period of time to makeit sound less. Offer a payment plan or show the perday price. For example, "Only 33 cents per day!"2. Promote your products within the content of yourweb site. If you write and offer free articles tie...

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Secrets to Building Massive Opt-in Lists

An opt-in list is the absolute most effective marketing toolavailable on the Internet. Not only do they provide you witha direct line of communication with your target market, butthey also enable you to develop a trusting relationship withyour subscr...

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YOUR OWN EZINE THE PROS AND CONS

No doubt about ithaving one's own ezine is an excellent promotional tool. Whether you sell goods or services, publishing an ezine is perhaps one of the very best online ways to develop and maintain a potential, targeted customer base.Should you ...

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Internet Business Doomed by Grand Theft

Every ezine I read these days, including all of my own, theeditors are having to waste valuable space reiterating therules or tightening them up because of the variety of abuses thatthey suffer from unscrupulous subscribers. Listen up, becauseeven if...

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