Great Copy increases your response. Great copy avoids the passive voice. Is your copy using an active voice? Here’s how you do it: Isolate and review all phrases telling what you’ll do for the person. Then, make sure to change [...]
We recently did a test for a client that verifies what direct mailers already know: Don’t use online generated names for a direct mail campaign. Instead, use direct mail-generated names. In this A/B test, direct mail responsive names produced a 66% [...]
When I got the call from TheStreet.com, they were unsure what to do. Sales were going down. Competition was increasing. It was the middle of a recession/down market. Plus, TheStreet.com saw existing ad revenue drop when the market dropped…and that’s what happens [...]
As a marketer, it’s important to understand your prospects by anticipating their needs, objections, and apprehensions. We call this, “Preemptive Copy”: In a time of high prices and business/economic uncertainty, your prospect or customer may cut back on a new [...]
When writing copy for your direct response campaign, you only have a few minutes or even a few seconds to grab the attention of your prospects. That’s why you must choose your words carefully. Online or print, words have a [...]
