case studies
Marketing Speaker Says Blogs Can Build Your Business…
You too can use a blog to attract new customers, clients or patients, to convert prospects, and to keep your existing relationships loyal. Here is Marketing Speaker, Jim Ackerman’s take on BLOGS, along with some step-by-step advice on how do to a BLOG…
Why is Southwest the Only Airline that “Gets It,” asks Prominent Marketing Speaker
Southwest Airlines seems like the only airline these days that knows how to treat a passenger, both on and off the aircraft. Witness their friendly people, their on-time arrival record, and now the online stations they’ve put at every gate to help waiting passengers turn wait time into productive time. Nobody else does that! All while the Deltas, Americans, and Uniteds of the world are charging us for bags. Are you engineering a positive customer experience in your business. Marketing Speaker, Jim Ackerman, examines the ramifications in this timely post.
Marketing Speaker, Jim Ackerman, critiques BMW Video/Super Bowl Ad Effort
Marketing Speaker Jim Ackerman follows up on his last post about BMW’s showroom ad, then goes on to discuss their Super Bowl Ad, this year’s over all crop of Super Bowl ads and the general dismaying expenditures of hard-earned company funds to have gratuitous, non-selling ads in this important exposure time. What is the matter with these people!
Marketing Speaker asks, Does BMW do video marketing as well as they do cars?
Well, do they? In the latest episode of the YouTube channel GoodBadnUglyAds, we present a 3-minute video that BMW uses for it’s X3 model, at the dealership. But is it good marketing? And if this is what they do in the showroom, how does that translate to TV ads? You’re the judge in this episode, but not until Marketing Speaker/Marketing Guru, Jim Ackerman gives you his take on the little direct mail piece offering an American Eagle, one-ounce silver coin. What do you think of both of these ad specimens, and how does your analysis measure up with Jim’s? Check it out.
Marketing Speaker Releases Episode 2 of GoodBadnUgly Channel
Episode #2 of the GoodBadnUglyAds Channel on YouTube scrutinizes a direct mail piece from LensCrafters, and invites you to comment on another piece, in advance of the next episode. For those looking for a marketing expert, you have access to the comments of everyone who critiques these pieces. And you’ll find the nuances of what makes this piece good, bad or ugly, both enlightening and useful in your own sales, marketing and advertising efforts.
Marketing Speaker Says You Too Can Exploit Chinks in Walmart’s Armor
Consumers don’t want hassles in either the products they buy or the people they purchase them from. If you deliver a quality experience, you can command higher prices.
Advertising Speaker, Jim Ackerman, Announces New VLOG
The first in a series of programs designed to help you hone your skills as a marketer and advertiser. Presented by Marketing Wizard, Jim Ackerman, one of the most renowned marketing speakers and advertising speakers in the USA. Become a better marketing and advertising practitioner, so you can clobber the competition as you — perhaps for the first time — approach your advertising efforts with confidence and cool! That’s how you increase sales and make more money.
The MESSAGE is the MEDIUM, Says Marketing Speaker, Jim Ackerman
It was Marshal McLuhan who said, “The medium is the message.” He was only half right. The message is also the medium. If you don’t believe it, consider the results of marketers who have changed as little as a couple of words in a headline and increased results by hundreds or even thousands of percent. The medium was the same, the cost was the same. The rewards were dramatically different. Consider the example of Orabrush and their remarkable success on YouTube, which has eclipsed companies literally millions of times bigger than they are.
Marketing Speaker Jim Ackerman Shares a Seminal Business Experience
The experience I had visiting Horizon Services in Wilmington DE, has changed my business and my life. Exec VP Mark Aitken doesn’t use the standard HVAC business for his model. He is patterning his business after the best that the world has to offer. No wonder he has one of the most successful HVAC companies in the country, with revenues above $35 million. And that’s how he can give hundreds of thousands in goods, services and sponsorships back to the community each year. There are lessons in this story for all of us. Not just marketing lessons… business lessons… life lessons.
Marketing Speaker Reveals 6 of 18 vital marketing secrets from a little, 1-page letter
In this 10-minute video, Marketing Speaker Jim Ackerman reveals the first six of 18 vital marketing lessons we all can learn from two remarkably small — and stunningly effective — 1-page sales letters.
