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Marketing Speaker Jim Ackerman Warns of the Danger of the Big Idea…

Jim Ackerman, one of the nation’s top marketing speakers spins a different and unexpected look at the “big ideas” that often come from unexpected places within your company. According to Jim, these so-called big ideas could be big trouble. It usually pays to trust the people you pay to come up with big marketing ideas.

Marketing Speaker, Jim Ackerman Reveals the Demonstrable Power of Relationships

A lot of marketing speakers want you to advertise. Marketing Speaker Jim Ackerman wants you to build client relationships first. In this installment, Jim takes you through a case history that proves, by the numbers, that client relationships are crucial and powerful as predictors and promoters of marketing and advertising success, for small business and large.

Magic Wand Marketing Contest Winner, Bill Warren, Shares Valuable Philosopy with Marketing Speaker Jim Ackerman

Bill Warren, Winner of the first annual MAGIC WAND Marketing Contest for the Marketing Wizards Alliance, talks to Jim Ackerman, one of the nation’s top Marketing Speakers and Marketing Coaches, about his Marketing Philosophy, and how YOU need to THINK to thrive in today’s economy.

COMPOUND COMPLEXITY… As if recession wasn’t enough, the media world is upside down

Not only is the on-going recession killing small businesses, but revolutionary changes in the media world, brought on by the iPad and mobile media have marketers large and small reeling. What to do? Among Marketing Speakers, Jim Ackerman tells the truth… and what you can do about it. As a marketing coach, his clients prove his principles… The principles this marketing guru delivers in this piece.

Jim on Tony Wilkins online Radio program…

Gang, I’m going to be on the radio with Tony Wilkins in 15 minutes. Join me if you can to talk all things marketing in the “toilet economy”, including new insider secrets about online marketing. Listen in and call in!
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The Loss of Jobs…

Everybody is mourning the loss of Steve Jobs. In this post, one of the world’s top Marketing Speakers, Jim Ackerman, explains why Jobs was the embodiment of industrial icon, Peter Drucker, and why Jim wants to be like Steve, when he grows up…

Other Marketing Speakers May Disagree, but Jim Ackerman Says You CAN Track Radio…

In this post, Marketing Speaker, Jim Ackerman, analyzes a radio ad campaign he did for a local dentist, illustrating how radio ads can be tracked to “genetically engineer” for better results. Includes Jim’s latest VLOG post from YouTube Channel GoodBadnUglyAds

6 Keys To Strong Ad Creation from Marketing Speaker Jim Ackerman

Marketing Speaker Jim Ackerman reveals six secrets to making sure your ads are as effective as they can be. 1. Headline 2. UPA 3. Benefits 4. Features 5. Benefit Language 6. Offers.

Marketing Speaker Jim Ackerman Asks, Is the Internet Killing All Other Media

The yellow pages are dead due to internet search. Newspapers are in a coma due as the web has become people’s primary source for news and information. Television viewership is giving way to internet watching. Even direct mail is changing because of the Web. Marketing Speaker, Jim Ackerman, raises some intriguing questions about the future of the media in this post, which includes his media.

What Can You Learn From a $400,000.00 Advertising Disaster?

Marketing Speaker Jim Ackerman self-revealingly tells all about the worst advertising disaster of his career — a $400,000.00 loss — and seeks your help determining the lessons learned to prevent a similar tsunami in YOUR business…