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6 Things I Know About Postcards That You Do not
Ultimate Postcard Manual

Really Simple Postcard Marketing Tips.
In my plethora of experience tucked away between these ears, I have managed to cull out for you what I consider the “best of the best” – in other words, I took the most proven details about postcards that were significant to you starting a postcard campaign and really winning at it. So here goes [...]

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Direct Mail Marketing, Can it really pay off? Step One – Researching your Target Market
target market

Maybe you have thought about direct mail. Maybe you have wondered whether it could work for you. Maybe you have done it, but it never really paid off. Possibly you thought there was so much to learn that you didn’t know where to start. Whatever your particular ’story’ is you are reading this. And yes, there are a million and [...]

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Are You a Survivor or a ‘Thriver’?
SOS

Losing is not an option for me – it never has been. It shouldn’t be for you, either. What are you going to do to ensure you make it through this economic downturn?
We can learn from history – not everyone went under during the depression. There are opportunities; you just have to be alert and aware so you can take [...]

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2 Step Marketing
PostcardMania

Do it Right
I receive postcards all the time. The other day I received a postcard trying to sell me a copy machine. It had tiny, tiny lettering slathered all over the front and a large portion of the back of the card.Â
It was extremely hard to read, so hard in fact that I threw it away.
Several days later I received [...]

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Business Marketing Strategy
Marketing Strategy

What is it and who needs one?

The term business marketing strategy might sound like it is esoteric or stratospheric, so let’s take the mystery out of it so you can devise and implement your own business marketing strategy that fits in to your small business plan.
Strategy comes from a Greek word ’stratagein’ meaning ‘to be a general’. Think of a [...]

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Branding Your Business
Branding

You may have heard that “branding” and “positioning” is important to your marketing, but have you ever wondered what that means for your business? First, you need to know the difference between the two.
Let’s start with positioning. It’s a marketing term that means to take a product or service and “position” it in the mind of your prospects or clients [...]

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Basic Marketing Dope

Sometimes the simplest data is the best. Marketing is not complex if you know the basics – that’s true with anything by the way. Here are some tools that are brilliantly simple and with them you really won’t have to sweat the small stuff.
Hot Dope #1) The more that your potential customers see your name in front of them, the [...]

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Marketing – Like a Game of Chess
Direct Mail Postcards

Have you started thinking about your 4th of July promotion?
It may sound like a strange question the week before Easter but it really isn’t. When scheduling your promotions it is like a game of chess. You should always be thinking at least 3 moves ahead.
In this case each “move” should be one month. Therefore you should have been thinking about [...]

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