Marketing with Postcards – the good, bad and ugly

The postcard has many uses in marketing.  Over the last few days I have been thinking a lot about their pros and cons.  I figured I would think on this blog and share my list about the simple postcard. A postcard by USPS standards is no larger then 4×6.  So when should you use this […]

Move the needle

If you are marketing a product or service I hope you are measuring the results.  If not, you are missing the boat and you will never know if what you are doing is making a difference in your business. The goal of marketing should be to move the sales needle (or build up a database […]

Don’t ask

I get a lot of sales calls.  It always amazes me when the sales person forgets all their manners and just talks over you, ignores your time constraints and then drops the ball on the follow-up.  Just the other day a media sales rep had me on the phone (I couldn’t get a word in […]

No thinking required

Let’s face it.  People are lazy.  If given the choice between thinking through a problem and watching TV most people would opt for the TV.  There is nothing wrong with some down time and this is not a judgment about you or your customers, we are all lazy by nature.  Add to this how busy […]

Direct Mail Gone Wild

As you know, I attended DMDays NY last week. I spent a good chunk of my career focused on direct marketing which is why it baffles me every time I go to a direct response conference and the ‘expert’ companies trying to sell their services don’t practice good direct marketing.  It is the old story […]