Yellow Page Ad Design Marketing Strategy #9 is to Headline Your Testimonials.

May 8th, 2009

Using the key benefits of your client and patient testimonials as a small headline above it really drives home the benefits of what you have to offer. I think some examples would help here more than a description, so I will use some of my testimonials as those examples.

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Yellow Page Ad Design Marketing Strategy #8 is to Implement a Testimonial System that Gets 100% of Your Clients to OBLIGATE THEMSELVES to Giving You a Testimonial.

May 4th, 2009

I review hundreds of print and Yellow Page ad designs per year in my advertising and marketing agency, and one of the most costly, common response killers I see in these ads is having no testimonials. Now if you are prohibited from using testimonials by an overseeing body, I do not recommend breaking their rules and regulations. In those situations, testimonials can be used in your front office in a notebook, or in frames on the walls.

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“Tracks of Passion”

April 28th, 2009

“Tracks of Passion” is a story about one man’s passion, his business, the love of his life, his 6 kids, ski teams, fate, opportunity, friends, and his leadership, communication and management skills. Any description I give here will not do this story justice, so you need to get and read this book!

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April 20th, 2009

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Yellow Page Ad Design Marketing Strategy #7 is to Display a Powerful Guarantee or Personal Promise.

April 20th, 2009

One of the key marketing strategies of print and Yellow Page advertising is to have a guarantee. The ideal guarantee is a complete risk-reversal where you guarantee your clients satisfaction or they get their money back. I know what you’re thinking, “If I give my prospects a money-back guarantee, they’ll all ask for their money back and I’ll go broke!” Well this is the type of thinking you want your competition to have, but not you.

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Yellow Page Ad Design Marketing Strategy #6 is having a phenomenal offer in the right location in your ad.

April 15th, 2009

Many of the Yellow Page ad designs I audit and review completely lack an offer. The offer is what separates you from your competition and “knocks the prospect off the fence of indecision”.

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Yellow Page Ad Design Marketing Strategy #5 – additional comments.

April 8th, 2009

After writing my last post I remembered a story about a friend of mine, TJ Rohleder who is a very intelligent direct response marketer. TJ has made over $100 Million in his marketing company, and has relayed many interesting stories of his experiences in marketing in our numerous conversations. My favorite TJ story is the one he told me about how he made $18 million with 1 salesletter.

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Yellow Page Ad Design Marketing Strategy #5 is, “Stop Your Ideal Target Prospect in their Tracks with a Dynamite Headline.”

April 3rd, 2009

The headline is “the ad for the ad”. If you fail to attract your ideal prospect’s attention with your headline, what’s in the rest of the ad doesn’t matter because they won’t read it.

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Yellow Page ad design marketing strategy #4 is, “Tracking Advertising Response from All Sources in Real Time so You Can Immediately Eliminate Unproductive Advertising and Increase Proven Productive Advertising.”

March 25th, 2009

Your Yellow Page ad design’s ROI (Return On Investment) is maximized when you track your advertising. It is essential that you know immediately which ads are making the phone ring with qualified prospects, and which ads are not. Accurate tracking is essential to any advertising or promotional campaign for small business marketing.

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Yellow Page ad design marketing strategy #3 is “Targeting High-Income Prospects by Speaking to their Expensive Tastes and Luxurious Wants.”

March 21st, 2009

I am changing the order of the marketing strategies here because it is important to cover this Yellow Page ad design marketing strategy next. When I first started advertising in the Yellow Pages, there were 1500 competitors in the carpet maintenance/water damage industry in Orange County, CA. Nearly all of them focused on the 1 way they understood about how to stand out from the competition which was having the lowest price. Experience has taught me that being the lowest price provider always results in delivery and customer service problems.

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