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When Tactics Are Not Enough
Your public relations people are busy. The buzz is all about hits on a radio show or mentions in a newspaper column. Or, which to do first, the trade show exhibit or the video clip. All useful tactics, but hardly the detailed planning needed to REALLY do something about the behaviors of those outside audiences that impact you the most.Without that planning, those changes in target audience behaviors you'll almost certainly need to achieve your objectives is unlikely to come ab

cts...” Once again, we are left with the deliberate impression that this ‘crusading journalist or self-styled Internet Marketing expert is going to really tell it like it is.

Did I mention that the fellow putting on this large seminar will be paying this ‘journalist-marketing-copywriter-whatever’ a $1,000 commission for every person he convinces to buy through him? I don’t think he mentioned that. Do you?

The Key to Effective Sales Incentives
One marketing strategy that does not seem to fail is sales incentive. And that's the reason why it is also one of the most common types of marketing strategy that is used to increase the profit of the business and even motivate employees to perform in the top of their game.You too can increase the profit of your business by following these few tips:Know what your employees want, then give it to them. It is useless to have a very good sales incentive program if your employees really don

In this column I have changed the names and locations to protect the sneaky, underhanded and misguided. (It also really isn’t worth getting sued over).

This morning I received a press release from someone purporting to be a “reviewer” of Internet products, concepts and seminars. The sub-headline under his blog’s name directly implies that he tries everything before telling you whether of not you should buy it. But let’s get back to this press release. It tells us about a large seminar that will take place soon in a major south-eastern city. The press release lists the names and some information about each of the Internet “gurus”

In Internet Marketing “speak”, the word guru means those who so far have made a ton of money in this field. This seems to be the only criterion to bestow the title of guru (‘guru’ originally means ‘teacher’).

By the end of this press release, you are invited to learn more by reading this copy: “A critical review of the (name of the seminar) event and detailed ticket information is available at: (the online link to his blog). A final line of copy says: “He reviews products and events at: (name of his blog again).” The copy used here is quite intentional. It is designed to make the reader believe that this is an unbiased, journalistic “review” of this upcoming seminar (how can you review a seminar has hasn’t occurred yet, except to talk about those in the past?)

Note that I put the words unbiased, journalistic and review in italics to draw your attention to them. That’s because they are most important. This is about deliberately misleading the reader. The title on the blog’s landing page says: “Archive for the ‘Seminar Reviews’ category, implying that there are a lot of other reviews on other seminars, when, in fact, there is only one review on one seminar. (I found it interesting that while I was writing this article over a two hour period, this headline was taken down and replaced without a headline that implied this is part of its ‘archives’.) When you read through this blog, it’s obvious that it’s brand new; it only has one other posted article dealing with ‘health & fitness’. When you click on the ‘Archives’ section of the blog, you get these two articles only, so we know for sure that this blog was built since March 1st. This tells me I’m not the only one who noticed all this not-so-subtle underhandedness.

So where am I going with this? Well, if you follow the bread crumbs, you are told that there are only going to be 399 attendees allowed and the writer hopes to see you there. No blatant sales pitch yet, but that is about to arrive too. The next line at the bottom of this blog is this copy: “Seminar skeptics click here.” When you click on that link, you are treated to a full-on hard sell page that poses a question about whether or not this seminar is really worth $1,997 to attend, by stating: “discover the surprising truth from someone who’s not afraid to tell you the facts...” Once again, we are left with the deliberate impression that this ‘crusading journalist or self-styled Internet Marketing expert is going to really tell it like it is.

How BOLD Can You Go With Your Elevator Speech?
“How LOW can you go?” is what you think about when you do the limbo. Since we’re talking about marketing, I’ll ask you this: How BOLD can you go, in describing what you do?I was coaching a private client this week about how to turn his Kitchen Designer elevator speech into a conversation that elicits a prospective client meeting, right there at the networking event and in less than 5 minutes! The key? Come up with a claim for what you do that is the BOLDEST thing you can think of (w

. This seems to be the only criterion to bestow the title of guru (‘guru’ originally means ‘teacher’).

Information Marketing - How to Get Clients to Pick Up the Phone and Call You
What Is Information Marketing? Information marketing techniques involve a completely different way of thinking. It’s centred on ‘giving’ not ‘getting’. It’s a powerful way of building a relationship of trust and credibility with your prospects by giving them what they want which is information and advice and taking away what they don’t want, a sales pitch. Now doesn’t that feel as though it falls in line with your values?Information marketing materials come in many formats from

c and review in italics to draw your attention to them. That’s because they are most important. This is about deliberately misleading the reader. The title on the blog’s landing page says: “Archive for the ‘Seminar Reviews’ category, implying that there are a lot of other reviews on other seminars, when, in fact, there is only one review on one seminar. (I found it interesting that while I was writing this article over a two hour period, this headline was taken down and replaced without a headline that implied this is part of its ‘archives’.) When you read through this blog, it’s obvious that it’s brand new; it only has one other posted article dealing with ‘health & fitness’. When you click on the ‘Archives’ section of the blog, you get these two articles only, so we know for sure that this blog was built since March 1st. This tells me I’m not the only one who noticed all this not-so-subtle underhandedness.

The Entrepreneur's Checklist
I was asked the other day what personality traits I thought were important to entrepreneurial success. I immediately gave my preprogrammed reply about passion and dedication and hard work. After taking some time later to ponder the question a little deeper (I normally operate in shallow waters), I came up with a more detailed checklist for entrepreneurial success. This is by no means a definitive list, but I'd be willing to bet that if you don't have at least a majority of these traits, your chances

hese two articles only, so we know for sure that this blog was built since March 1st. This tells me I’m not the only one who noticed all this not-so-subtle underhandedness.

Postage Rates
A postage rate includes the value and service individuals get from the agencies offering postal services, and the amount of work they are willing to do to prepare mails for individuals.A lot of agencies providing postal services offer discounted postage rates, because they believe that individuals do some of the work that would have been done otherwise by the postal service agency. This involves sorting the mail, according to zip code or taking the mail to a postal facility.On the whol

cts...” Once again, we are left with the deliberate impression that this ‘crusading journalist or self-styled Internet Marketing expert is going to really tell it like it is.

This is the kind of misleading marketing that is giving other marketers and marketing in general, a very bad name. This guy only ‘reviews’ stuff that is going to make him some commission money. He has paid his two grand to attend; now he wants to fool you into going so he can get back his two thousand, perhaps lots more. He should come clean: tell the reader that he is ‘selling’ this seminar and that he will get paid a 50% commission if you buy from him... Don’t hide it under a sneaky veil of subterfuge and gobbledygook copywriting.

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