7,171 articles on "marketing"

Case In Point Getting Your List To Respond

by Karon Thackston © 2002http://www.ktamarketing.com We all wish we could have ultra-responsive mailing lists, don’t we? The dream of most marketers is to send out their ezine and sit back to watch a flood of orders come in. After all, while w...

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Using a USP to Quickly Connect With Prospects

The acronym USP (Unique Selling Proposition) was created byRosser Reeves, marketing expert in the 1960's. Over time,his concept has been used by others, called different namesby different individuals and pretty much has taken on a lifeof its own...

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Increase Traffic by Programming a Contest!

Visitors come to your site and don't buy on their first visit.It often takes 6-7 visits before they buy. So, how do you gettheir business if they don't come back? For that matter, how doyou get them to come back? One answer is to run a cont...

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Scientific Advertising is for Dummies

Perhaps the most revered of all marketing books is "Scientific Advertising" by Claude C. Hopkins. And why not? It's been dampening enthusiasm, mauling budgets and scuttling good ideas for nearly a century."Sacrilege!" I hear you cry. "'Scie...

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Check Your Server!

Do you use your own virtual server to send out your magazine? I do. Be warned, I have discovered bad things that can happen when you don't check your server before you send to your list.Last week, I was getting ready to send out to my subscriber...

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Why You Shouldn’t Give Away Free eBooks

Why You Shouldn’t Give Away Free eBooksIf Internet Marketing were a college major, in Lesson 1 of “Internet Marketing 101” you would be taught to give away free ebooks:As a promotion for your main productAs a bonus to enhance your product offer...

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The Viability of Blogging to a Niche Market

Copyright 2005 Mal KeenanNiche marketing is an old and very successful marketing strategy whereby a company focuses on marketing and selling to a clearly defined segment of potential consumers. The company earns by supplying a unique product or servi...

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Business Cards and Business Etiquette

One of the very basic conditions of being a successful businessman is to get people (your existing or prospective customers) to like you and a very basic requirement for being liked by people is to have proper business etiquette. We all like to be in...

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Why Aren't You Using Freebies to Get More Customers?

Why Aren't You Using Freebies to Get More Customers? by: Alan Fairweather Don't you just love a freebie? I know I do. I've been in two situations recently as a customer, when I received an unexpected freebie. After ordering my us...

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Colorado Creative Music Case Study Part 2

Colorado Creative Music Case Study Part 2 by: Anastasia Kurdina STEP Analysis The STEP analysis of the Colorado Creative Music aims at analyzing macro-environmental factors of the music business the company is engaged into. These factors fall in...

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