How-To Articles for You

 

Advertising:

 

How To Write a Good Advertisement
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31 -derfully Simple Ways To Make Your Ads Generate More Inquiries

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On Target Advertising

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Blogging:

 

Can blogging help you market your product online?

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Book Publishing:

 

The Bulletproof Book Proposal

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Finding A Good Idea For Your Book

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A Fine Position to Be In

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What to Do When Your Book Goes Out of Print

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Brochures:

 

How to Write More Effective Product Brochures

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Classy Outfit...Classy Brochure?

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Business Skills:

 

Improving Your Listening Skills

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Improving Your Interpersonal Skills

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10 Ways To Get More Done in Less Time

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How to Give a Successful Presentation

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The Case Against PowerPoint

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Practical Techniques for Producing Profitable Ideas

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8 Ways to Improve Your Managerial Skills

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Improving Your Telephone Skills

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Improving Your Reading Efficiency and Skills

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How to improve your negotiating skills

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Ten Ways To Reduce Stress On The Job

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Catalog Marketing

 

How To Write Catalog Copy That Sells

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Copywriting:

How To Prepare For A Copywriting Assignment
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The Fundamentals Of Persuasive Writing
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How To Give (And Take) Constructive, Helpful Criticism On Direct Marketing Ideas, Concepts, 

Design, And Copy
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Why Clients Rewrite Your Copy -- And How To Handle It
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Features before benefits

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How To Hire A Freelance Copywriter

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Business-to-Business Marketing:

10 Tips For Writing More Effective Industrial Copy

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The 7 Key Differences Between business-to-business and consumer marketing

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Direct Mail:

The 12 Most Common Direct Mail Mistakes...And How To Avoid Them
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Deciding what to insert with the sales letter in your DM package

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Enhancing your Credibility With Your Prospects
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Estimating response to business-to-business direct mail

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Using direct mail to promote consulting services and professional practices

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23 Tips For Creating Business-To-Business Mailing that Work

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Reduce Direct Marketing Costs with Postcards

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DM News (columns)

 

Can blogging help you market your product online?

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Sell More Prospects with a “Secondary Promise” 

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Writing in the Internet Age

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What works best in b-to-b direct mail: short copy or long?

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The 4 levels of “marketing competence” 

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38 Great Ideas for Your Next Headline 

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What makes business-to-business marketing different than consumer? 

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8 affordable ways to drive traffic to your Web site 

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Breaking into your prospect’s e-mail “inner circle”

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Write, design, and publish your own free e-zine

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9 Strategies for Improving Your Outer Envelope

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Reality in Advertising

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Traditional vs. “Guerilla” Online Marketing

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The Magic of False Logic

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10 steps to online marketing success

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Make $10,000 a month selling e-books

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How to write subject lines that get your e-mail opened and read

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How to build your e-zine subscriber list rapidly and inexpensively using “Safelists”

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Reach your prospects on a deeper level

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Persuasion secrets of the top marketing pros

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Does the printed word matter in the Internet Age?

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10 Marketing Books Actually Worth Reading

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How to help search engines find your site

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Early to Rise Column:

 

What My Dad Taught Me About Yellow Pages Advertising

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The 4 Levels Of Marketing Competence

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The Most Amazing Fact About Fundraising Can Help Make Any Direct Mail Promotion More Successful – Including Yours!

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Mailing The Same Piece Twice: Should You Or Shouldn’t You?

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How To Do Virtually All The Market Research You Will Never Need -- Quickly, Easily, And For Free – Online

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Is Exhibiting At Trade Shows A Waste Of Time? Without A Good ROI, Yes.

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Show Your Warts: An Honest Way To Make A Buck

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The Second-Most Powerful Word In Direct Marketing: The Magic Of A Dollar

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When You Want Customers To Buy, Tell Them They Can’t.

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E-mail Marketing:

 

15 Tips For Writing Internet Direct Mail That Works
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12 More Tips For Writing Internet Direct Mail That Works
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What Works Best in E-Mail Marketing: Long Copy or Short Copy?

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Information Marketing:

 

Enhancing your credibility with your subscribers

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Lead Generation:

 

50 lead-generating tips

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Marketing:

 

Can’t Find Good Newsletter Items

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14 Winning Methods To Sell any Product Or Service In A Down Economy
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Tips On Using Testimonials
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The Key to Great Inquiry Fulfillment

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Ten Ways to Stretch Your Advertising Budget

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Marketing information Products:

 

Free Seminars—A Powerful Promotion, But Difficult To Sell
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How To Sell Information In The “Information Age”
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Subscription Premiums—What’s Working and What’s Not
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10 Tips For Increasing Response To Direct Mail Packages Selling Directories
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How To Overcome Price Resistance When Selling High-Priced Information Products
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Make Your Newsletter the One They Can’t Live Without

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Personal Development:

 

How to Get Out of a Slump

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Public Relations:

 

Getting Feature Stories Published in Trade Journals
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Use Smart PR to Unearth Prospects

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Renewals:

 

Advance Renewals
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Selling:

 

How--to Ask for and Get--the Fees You Deserve

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Subscription Marketing (column): 

6 Profitable Advance Renewal Approaches

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The 4 most important factors in direct mail subscription marketing success … and the 2 you can control most

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Are Forced Free Trials Making a Comeback in Newsletter Subscription Marketing?

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Selling Newsletters With Online Conversion

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Making Your Offer Make Sense

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6 Common Reasons Why Newsletters Fail

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What premiums work best in newsletter subscription marketing?

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Avoid these 5 common mistakes in newsletter subscription marketing

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Creating effective Web sites for subscription marketers

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Marketing paid subscription newsletters in the Information Age

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Technology Marketing:

 

Six Things I Know For Sure About Marketing To Engineers
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How To Sell Software By Mail
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Stalking The Perfect High-Tech Sales Brochure
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Selling technology to senior management, end users and other nontechies
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Promote the heck out of high-tech products

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Taking the mystery out of high-tech the mystery out of high-tech direct mail

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10 Steps to Successful Software Direct Mail

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Technical and Business Writing:

 

Ten ways to improve your technical writing

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How to write business letters that get results

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Improving your technical writing skills

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Ten tips for better user manuals

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Trade Shows:

 

10 Ways to Improve Your Trade Show Direct Mail

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Web Marketing:

Web Sites Must Meet Marketing Objectives...And Many Don't
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Bob Bly  Copywriter
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