Category Archives: Calls To Action

What Jay Jennings Can Teach You About Email Marketing

Jay Jennings is an internet marketing guy who sells a lot of products to folks who do internet marketing. I like him because he’s an ‘alt’ kind of a guy who doesn’t quite look what you’d expect an internet (or … Continue reading

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Getting Your E-mail Audience to Click-through to Your Landing Page

According to research cited by the folks at MailDogManager.com “…the words “Click to continue” generated 50% more click-throughs than either “Continue to article” or “Read more.”“ Of course that may mean that only 2 people clicked on “Read more” while … Continue reading

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Podcast at Your Peril

You know the old entertainment saying/joke? The one that describes a person has “having a great voice but a face for radio.” The implication is while their voice is show biz quality their looks leave something to be desired. Well, … Continue reading

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Email Marketing: First Impressions are Everything

Does your email have great graphics, great content and great offers but nobody’s opening it? Maybe it’s because you’re making a lousy first impression. Here’s some statistics (if I could have done the math, I’d have been a statistician): 49% … Continue reading

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Close the Loop, Link Your Offline Marketing Efforts with Online Fulfillment

Summer time and I love to barbecue but I gotta tell you, it doesn’t necessarily come natural to me. I’m always freaked that I’ll over or under cook whatever it is that I’ve got on the grill and I’m always … Continue reading

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Don’t Get Greedy When Requesting Information on Your Website

My friend, Mark Sanborn, related an experience where he lied when asked for certain information in order to register on a website. His point is that while, “…smart marketers want to capture information … making it hard for customers and … Continue reading

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The Internet is a “…Want it Now” Medium

Gimmee, mine, wantit; the favorite words of my 2 and 3 year old children (back when I had 2 & 3 year old children). Well guess what, the web is populated with the emotional equivalent of 3 year olds. We … Continue reading

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Are You Making It Easy to Ignore Your Email Messages?

This is how the email announcing Marcus Buckingham’s upcoming LA workshops appeared in my Thunderbird email client with “Message View” turned on. Actually, this is how his email announcement didn’t appear…   This is what his message looks like with images enabled. A little … Continue reading

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Effective Marketing Requires Repetion. Effective Marketing Requires Repetition…

A statistic I came across recently stated that we’re exposed to 3,700 distinct messages a day. How do you break through that clutter with your message? By repeating it. We may think it rude to continuely bombard our prospects and … Continue reading

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Generate More Referrals; Tell Your Customers What You Do!

Seems funny, right? Of course your customers know what you do! After all, they’ve hired you to do it! Yeah but do they know everything that you do? Probably not. I was reminded of this when I came across a … Continue reading

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