Posts Tagged ‘Dan Kennedy’

Is Yellow Page Advertising a “Dead Media” in the Internet Era?

Tuesday, September 1st, 2009

I get this question a lot. While the internet has had an impact on all Media, it has replaced none. “Experts” said that radio was dead when TV was introduced. Why would anyone listen to the radio when they could watch it on TV? But radio has continued to thrive, and so have Yellow Page and print advertisers that practice the 12 Yellow Page Response Triggers®. These are the same 12 response categories I use in my own marketing agency when I design highly profitable advertising for my clients.

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Book Review, “50 in 50” by TJ Rohleder

Tuesday, August 25th, 2009

I met TJ Rohleder at a Glazer-Kennedy event in Chicago about 5 years ago. Dan Kennedy, Bill Glazer, Jeff Paul, TJ Rohleder and I were on stage presenting our ideas on copywriting marketing strategies. When we came off stage, a gentleman approached TJ, told him he had come from England to speak with him and offered him $50,000 cash in a briefcase to write a salesletter. To my amazement, TJ looked at the man and with a friendly smile on his face said, “I’m sorry you’ve come so far, but I don’t do any outside work.”

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Yellow Page Ad Design Marketing Strategy #12 is to Use Handwritten Notes to Draw Attention

Friday, July 31st, 2009

My Mentor, Dan Kennedy, has taught the value of the handwritten notes marketing strategy in print ads, Yellow Page ad design, and sales letters for decades. Direct response marketing and advertising agencies are just beginning to catch on to this marketing strategy as you can see in some corporate advertising like from UPS. (United Postal Service)

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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.

Monday, 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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