Your prospect hates risk. This is especially the case with business-to-business marketing, where the reputation or career is on the line. But consumers also hate risk. Remember, your prospects can’t see you. They can’t see your product or the service [...]
When you “follow up” with prospects, always test different assets. Test headlines, graphics, copy, and more. Always test. Every follow-up or conversion series campaign I create reminds recipients that they are interested in and have responded to our offer. For [...]
Most direct marketers underestimate the selling power of testimonials — positive statements of facts made by a third party on behalf of your product or service. Your prospects and customers expect you to say good things about yourself. So, they [...]
The “fail-proof” secret to maximize profits is a very important rule… a rule often overlooked. Break the rule, and you get a lower response. Follow the rule, and it will boost your response and profits. It’s a secret to marketing [...]
Google delayed the death of cookies… again. Here are 4 things you should know: Google plans to proceed with the deprecation of all cookies now in early 2025. Despite the stay of execution, marketers shouldn’t use the delay as a [...]
With rising prices/costs and consumers cutting back, there has been a shakeup in streaming services… including navigating higher price points. For example: Paramount, Disney, and Comcast (etc!) had over $5 billion in losses in 2023 according to The Financial Times. [...]
Marketing in the upcoming elections has three big negatives: Higher media costs More competitors and distractions from the massive political marketing Less Inventory How you navigate this is critical to your cost per lead or sale. The nation’s first early [...]
How do you get new prospects and customers even when prospects are pulling back on spending? Many CEOs, CMOs, and advertising managers are asking themselves this question for their marketing strategy. My ad agency, CDMG, was asked to help a [...]
You may be like many marketers who email or call me. Their problem: Their website is producing disappointing results. They have people leaving the site too soon. They have few people motivated to go to the shopping cart. They have [...]
Testing is critical, but it can seem overwhelming to many marketers. It is important that you don’t have to completely overhaul your control piece to create a valuable test. We ran a simple test on a reference website, where the [...]
