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.
Click on the link [...]
Recession Marketing Tips: How Your Mindset Creates Success, Even in a Down Economy
Have you watched the news lately? Listened to the radio? Opened a newspaper?
If so, then you’ve been inundated by doom and gloom everywhere you turn.
Or maybe you’ve noticed your store is a little emptier…your inbox a little less crammed…your phone a little quieter.
You hear about businesses, households, and individuals failing all around you, and you [...]
Recession Marketing Strategies: Are You Wasting Your Most Valuable Business Asset?
Here is a profound truth, something that not one in 20 business owners truly appreciates:
When you fail to continue to SELL to your customers, they will fail to continue to BE your customers.
And when the economy goes in the tank, if you’re not selling to them enough, you’ll be the one who is flushed.
I don’t [...]
Recession Marketing Case Study Video: How Bill Warren Doubled His Business in the Bad Economy
Hi all! Boy, am I thrilled to present this video today. My friend and client Bill Warren (who owns an awesome jewelry store in Husdson, NC) has DOUBLED his business over the past two years–despite the downturn in the economy! I spent a few minutes interviewing him the other day, and now invite you to [...]
Relationship Marketing — OR, The One Simple Paradigm Shift that Will Change Your Marketing Forever
Okay, folks, listen up.
If there’s one single shift you can make in the way you think about marketing to revolutionize your revenue, it’s this.
Marketing is the simple act of buying customers.
The faster you let that message really sink in, the better off you’ll be.
Whenever you run a print ad…give your sales team a commission…send a [...]
