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Marketing Speaker, Jim Ackerman Reveals THE Key Marketing Secret…

In this one-minute video, Marketing Speaker, Marketing Coach, Advertising Speaker and over all Marketing Guru, Jim Ackerman goes beyond just marketing to reveal one of life’s most important laws of achievement. But he doesn’t stop there. He follows it up with a very brief, yet powerful, step-by-step process you can put to work in your business and your life TODAY, to achieve anything you want to accomplish, in any field of endeavor.

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 Delivers More Tips For Private Sale Success

Here are two short videos from Marketing Guru, Marketing Speaker, Marketing Coach, Jim Ackerman, giving some vital ideas for making your private sales really cook up the sales for your business of any kind.

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 Says Uncertainty Causes Uncertainty

Marketing and Advertising Speaker, Jim Ackerman revisits an article he wrote in August of ‘09, bemoaning the uncertainty imposed on the marketplace by political paralysis. If you’re a business person looking to grow your business, these are very tough times, and recent developements haven’t helped. There is still far too much uncertainty in the marketplace to pull us out of the recession.

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.