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!
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.
Cyber Monday Email Spike & Dive
Email marketing is bound to set records for emails sent on Cyber Monday, the Monday after Thanksgiving, but it is likely to lead to a DECLINE in email marketing in the coming year. Here’s why…
Tricks With Gift Certificates…
There are two kinds of businesses in the world… those that rely on the holiday season to make or break their year, and those that don’t.
If your business’s success for the last 12 months depends on how you do in the next 30 days, it might be a good idea to milk all the revenue [...]
Advertising is a messy, almost futile endeavor
A client called me from a medium-size Canadian town of about 120,000. The client is in charge of marketing for a jewelry store. One of about five competing stores within the geographic area of dominant influence of this town.
The boss had entered into an agreement to do some television advertising and they said they wanted [...]
Recession/Depression Prescription
I recorded this video a year ago. Revisiting it today, I was surprised at my own profundity. If you haven’t seen this, you really should take a look. If you have seen it, it bears watching again. It’s a good prescription for what you can do to save yourself from today’s economy.
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Small Business Marketing Answers: Is It Ever Okay to Lose Money on Your Marketing?
I’m in the middle of a fantastic dialogue with a client. We’re working on an online referral generation strategy for his financial counseling business and are in the process of playing with the numbers to determine what kind of referral incentive would be appropriate.
In the course of our emails back and forth, he sent me [...]
Principles of Persuasion: 3 Powerful Ways to Make Your Customers and Prospects Say Yes
I’m a trained public speaker.
Member of the National Speakers Association. Chair of my local chapter. I’ve delivered thousands of speeches to literally hundreds of thousands of people. I love it. I’m good at it.
When I speak, I want my audience to change. To do something as a result of what I’ve shared with them. So [...]
Small Business Marketing Tips: Genetically Engineer Your Marketing for Ever Increasing Success
How can you be the “Sherlock Holmes” of marketing success? My 1-minute video explains it all for you…
Enjoy!

