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Should a Direct Marketing Magazine Have Boring Headlines?
Irony of ironies: Direct Marketing News has the most boring headlines ever. Here are samples from the cover of the August 2011 issue…
Continue readingCreative Promotion: Tax Relief Weekend
As you probably know, you can often increase sales by attaching your promotion to something your target market is already thinking about. Holidays… current events… even celebrities are all fair game for getting your prospects’ attention and getting them to buy. That’s why I was pleased to see this creative promotion in my email inbox […]
Continue readingHow to Sell Money at a Discount
One reason for Groupon’s meteoric success (and the success of similar mob coupon services) is because they’re selling money at a discount. If I offered to give you $20 if you gave me $10, you’d take that offer as many times as you possibly could. That is the basic premise for many of the offers […]
Continue readingHas Netflix Gotten Bored of Its Own Advertising?
Unlike my copywriting colleague, Ben Settle, I actually did respond to a Netflix ad. That was a few years ago now. At the time, they were doing a bunch of print advertising. Mostly blow-ins included with the grocery store flyers delivered by mail once a week. Those little ads were brilliant. They demonstrated — in […]
Continue readingThey Sent This Email Not Once, But Twice…
Just about all practitioners of direct response marketing know: When a piece is mailed twice, it’s most likely profitable. Well, the same thing is true for email. When you see the same email — with the same subject line — sent out twice, it’s probably a winner. What’s interesting is that almost NOBODY does this. […]
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