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Top Marketing Speaker Says New Media Not Nirvana For Marketers…

The new media are often an Emperor without any clothes, failing to deliver on their big promise to generate sales, revenues and profits. Most often they are driving traffic to websites at best. Their performance is on par with traditional media but people are jumping on-board like crazed cats, despite the lack of documented success. What should you do?

Marketing Speaker Asks What Makes Your Different (Video)

How to differentiate yourself in the marketplace is one of the age-old marketing conundrums. The principle of the Unique Purchase Appeal is the most powerful marketing principle on the planet. It’s also the most important…

Marketing Speaker Shares 9 Rules of Direct Response Marketing

If you put these 9 rules to use in your marketing efforts on a consistent basis, I promise an overall increase in response. And response to any given project may skyrocket!

Marketing Speaker Asks… What Do You Do & How Are You Different?

What do you do and how are you different? These are the 2 most fundamental questions anyone is likely to want to know about your business. So why do so few business people have prepared answers for them. In fact virtually every business selling situation is absolutely predictable. It makes sense to have prepared answers built into your presentations and at the ready when questions are asked or objections are raised.

Marketing Speaker Claims All Media Is “Opt-in”

The differences between the “old” interruptive media, and the new, digital “opt-in” media aren’t as great as you’ve been lead to believe. The “opt-in” isn’t as non-invasive as you thought, and the “interruptive” is pretty much opt-in these days. Either way, you still need to know how to sell through your media.

Marketing Speaker Proclaims Historical First… The Death of a Medium

The Yellow Pages are dead. Not dying. Dead. They’re a medium whose time has past. Time to get out and dedicate your marketing dollars elsewhere… specifically to local SEO!

Be True To Your Numbers For a Prosperous 2010

2010 can be your most prosperous year ever, if you commit to sales and selling, and if you’re true to the key performance indicators that are necessary to track and meet to reach your revenue goals.

Shift to the Paradigm of “Attract & Accept”

If you’re involved in selling anything you probably think in terms of Prospecting & Sales. Might you find it more empowering and less stressful to think in terms of attracting and accepting? Attracting prospects and accepting new customers, clients for patients. In part 1 of this series of posts, Marketing Speaker Jim Ackerman presents his rationale for the new paragdigm.

Direct Response Trumping Image Marketing says Marketing Speaker, Jim Ackerman

Marketing Speaker / Advertising Speaker, Jim Ackerman applies Leo Burnnett’s famous advertising adage, “It’s not creative unless it sells” to the world of marketing and advertising today, as he lauds the arrival of the new era of Direct Response marketing.

Marketing Speaker Predicts The Rise of the Direct Marketing Era

Marketing Speaker, Jim Ackerman says the recession has brought advertisers back to earth in terms of what they expect from their marketing efforts. Now it’s no longer about creative. It’s about selling. It’s about getting a direct response.