Archive for the 'Marketing' Category

CNN’s Article “How Not To Sell Abroad” is really hilarious, unless these mistakes happened to you! Such as, “The Quink Pen won’t make you pregnant”… might be a good headline in a convent. Toyota’s “MR 2″ in French sounds like a French cuss word. Coor’s marketing slogan “Turn it loose” in Spanish refers to a [...]

I ran this concept last August. I wanted to bring it to your attention again because it’s selling at a huge discount for the time being… under $10. So if you’re the least bit interested, now is the time to buy! Here is a great idea for geographical post card marketing that someone sent me [...]

The Oregonian reports that a “Guerilla Marketer” is getting attacked by the proverbial 500 pound “Gorilla” of City Hall: Portland sues Jobdango over sidewalk chalk graffiti The regional job search website Jobdango.com put hundreds of chalk advertisements on the sidewalk promoting their website. You can see some of their non-chalk advertising here. As you can [...]

I opened my email box today and saw an email titled “Write Killer Emails That Will Force People to Act” Because I clicked “delete” without being “forced to act”, will the universe now implode? Or is marketing never quite that simple as writing “Killer Emails”?

This is from the “Tips Booklet Guru” Paulette Ensign and I wanted to pass it along. Be sure to visit her site at http://www.tipsbooklets.com This sounds like a really good deal if your booklet is a proven seller – or if you’re just getting into the market. This system lets you target people seeking quick [...]

Breitbart ran the following article: …Iran still buys American So no matter what Mahmoud Ahmadinejad says about destroying America, his country’s purchases from the US have increased 10-fold during the Bush Administration. Feel guilty about “selling to the enemy”? Don’t! A State Department official suggests that this is actually a way of building relationships with [...]

How’s your work at home business doing these days? Has the economy got you down? Are you waiting for business conditions to improve? Here’s a post from Jim Whelan that is worth considering: At a breakfast roundtable this morning I heard all kinds of excuses about performance. They were all laughable. Maybe not to those [...]

On Tomorrow’s “Stump Markus”! program: A lot of my subscribers are stunned to find out that I have no employees. That’s because I outsource just about every single task that’s needed to operate my business. But there is an exception — I won’t outsource the writing of my ad copy. I can’t afford it (quite [...]

As I said a while back, Kroger had a plan (however boring) to snap up economic stimulus checks by letting people buy 10% more groceries if they gave Kroger their check up front. Can you say “cash infusion”? Now that sounded a little boring to me… just 10%? But at least it was a plan. [...]

As marketers are looking for ways to save money on gas, save time, and – on average – reduce the “cost per sale” – direct marketing by mail is always on the table. SalesProspects.com is a list provider of choice for many first time direct marketers and experienced direct marketers who may be looking to [...]