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The Millionaire Maker has done it once again! Dan S. Kennedy revisits little-known, profit-proven direct mail strategies that continue to be effective for ANY business. In this updated and revised edition of No B.S. Direct Marketing, Dan Kennedy, and his coauthors Darcy Juarez and Marty Fort, build on and re-affirms all the essential direct marketing strategies in the original edition, and adds new material addressing online, social and viral marketing media. Strategies in the book are illustrated by updated case history examples from an elite team of consultants—all phenomenally successful at borrowing direct marketing strategies from the world of online sales, infomercials, etc., to use in'ordinary'businesses including retail stores, restaurants, and sales.

SHORTLISTED: Business Book Awards 2023 - Start Up/Scale UpBuild your DTC brand by learning from the best. As consumer buying habits continue to shift, more and more brands are turning their attention to e-commerce and selling direct. However, few manage to succeed at scale.Overcome the challenges of the ever-increasing cost of marketing, the demands of customer service, complicated logistical requirements and the perils of selecting the right technology by learning from the DTC pioneers who have got it right. Read the founding stories, strategies, failures and eventual success of DTC brands such as Huel, graze, Snag, tails.com, Who Gives a Crap, Casper, Lick, allplants, Bloom & Wild and more to discover: · How they got started, what worked then and what works now· The importance of building a community and how to use data· When to consider going multichannel· Why you need a bulletproof brand· Navigating funding, margins, growth, customer service and product development and moreFor the first time, the best in class of DTC share their playbooks so that you can understand and build on their successes.

Eighteen stories that will educate, entertain and impart lessons on personal branding. In Digital, we fixate on future-proofing, forecasting and iterating for further fortunes. But much of what has made me an effective marketer is entrenched in my past. Through these stories, you'll match the lessons to your unique qualities, and we'll apply them to your craft too. So all that remains is to ask yourself: what do you want to be known for?

Everyone's Talking About It.But Nobody Knows What They're Talking About. Social Media Examiner's 2018 Social Media Marketing Industry Report found that only 10% of respondents strongly agree that they can measure ROI—yet half of them will dedicate increased time and money to social media marketing instead of cutting back.Millionaire maker Dan S. Kennedy, joined by marketing strategist Kim Walsh Phillips, tells it like it is: If you're not focusing on converting traffic into sales, you might as well set your money on fire.Kennedy and Walsh Phillips open up their playbook and show you how to stop being a social media victim and accepting non-monetizable “likes” and “shares” as a return on your time, money, and energy and start using your platform for its true purpose—as another channel to reach customers, gain leads and make sales. Learn how to: Turn passive content into an active conversion toolBecome a lead magnet with social media profiles that focus on the needs of ideal prospects (not the product or service)Create raving fans who introduce you to their networksTurn niches into riches, laser in on your perfect prospects and ignore the “tire kickers”Harness the biggest secret in social media—offline Discover the principles behind successful marketing campaigns and start making dollars and cents out of your social media strategy.

In this clear and informed guide to the business model that's set to dominate twenty-first-century commerce, Adam Levinter makes a compelling case that the phenomenal success of companies like Amazon, Netflix, Spotify, and Salesforce wouldn't be possible without the foundation they all have in common: subscription. A surge of subscription boxes in 2012 earned buzz for offering everything from razors to meal kits to underwear; since then the model has proven to be adaptable, profitable, and resilient, even as many traditional retailers struggle to stay relevant in the digital economy. Levinter takes a close look at the leaders of the subscription economy to pinpoint the essential elements of the model, and prove that while the basic concept may be as old as magazines, the ubiquity of the internet is enabling a new way for businesses to scale and succeed. The Subscription Boom shows that the appeal to both customers and businesses makes subscription a smart play for virtually any business.

“A candid, behind-the-scenes look at how successful direct-to-consumer brands such as Hubble are launching their businesses on platforms like Facebook and Google.”—Lisa Sherman, president and CEO, the Ad Council LONGLISTED FOR THE PORCHLIGHT BUSINESS BOOK AWARD • “A must-read for anyone interested in starting a new business.”—Moiz Ali, CEO, Native E-commerce startups have exploded in the marketplace, selling merchandise and services directly to consumers, often through mobile phones. They skip the middlemen, avoid the lower margins of retail channels of distribution, strike deals directly with manufacturers and suppliers, and, in doing so, save consumers money. Among the companies that are part of this e-commerce revolution are Dollar Shave Club, Casper, Quip, Peloton, and Hubble Contacts. In Selling Naked, Hubble Contacts co-founder and co-CEO Jesse Horwitz shows entrepreneurs and enterprise companies alike precisely how to conceive, launch, and grow an e-commerce brand by using paid marketing social media channels. Horwitz shows entrepreneurs how to test consumer interest before spending a dime by placing mock ads on Facebook and other social media. Using this method, Hubble Contacts got an astonishing two thousand signups in four days, and as a result, raised $3.5 million in seed money. Hubble ran a second experiment to see if consumers would actually sign up for the service, which led to a second multimillion-dollar investment. Horwitz shows how startups can cut through the metrics bullshit to focus on the one metric that really matters; how to use third-party tools rather than build everything from scratch; and how to tell a great story to investors and frame your digital offering. In addition to running Hubble, Jesse Horwitz now works with established Fortune 500 enterprises to help build their e-commerce brands within the landscape of a larger retail environment. Selling Naked is the definitive playbook on how to start up a successful direct-to-consumer business.

The eagerly awaited sequel to the worldwide bestseller How to Build a Multi-Level Money Machine from Direct Selling icon and Hall of Famer Randy Gage Randy Gage revolutionized the Direct Selling profession with the bestselling phenomenon How to Build a Multi-Level Money Machine, translated into more than 20 languages. Now he's at it again with the long-waited sequel: Direct Selling Success. This all-new book is the ultimate textbook on creating success in the business. You'll learn everything from choosing the right company, finding the best candidates, becoming a rock star recruiter—to advanced skills like making powerful presentations, becoming a leader, and creating a leadership factory on your team. Since Randy's previous book took the profession by storm, there have been significant changes to the business that demand a fully up-to-date sequel: Regulatory oversight of the industry has increased dramatically, it's now much trickier to make simple product or income claims, and distributors are hungry for the right information on how to get it done. The business model has gained widespread public acceptance—it's now common for industry companies to secure naming rights for sports arenas and sponsor major league teams. Even Warren Buffet and Forbes Magazine promote the business. More and more people are taking on side hustles and are considering or already in the business.Maybe the biggest change is the impact of e-commerce, social media, and mobile apps on the business today. Randy's up-to-the-minute book explains how you can become successful in this new environment. The need for expert, proven guidance on the Direct Selling and Network Marketing profession has never been greater than right now. Direct Selling Success will help you: Choose the best company for you Locate the best candidates Become a Rock Star recruiter Design your system to create maximum duplication Employ the latest e-commerce and social media marketing techniques to grow your business Conduct powerful persuasive presentations Become a positive, dynamic leader for your team The Direct Selling industry continues to experience robust growth. The opportunity to generate passive income and create complete financial freedom is immense under current conditions. Direct Selling Success is a must-have resource for anyone who wants to build a team of customers and distributors that will generate residual income for years to come.

The go-to guide for small-business owners and entrepreneurs to discover exactly what consumers want to buy and how to get it to them.As a small-business owner, entrepreneur, or marketer, are you absolutely certain that you know what your customer wants? And even if you know what your customer wants, are you sure that you are able to clearly communicate that you offer the exact thing that they are seeking?In this best-selling book, Ryan Levesque lays out his proven, repeatable, yet slightly counterintuitive, methodology for understanding the core wants and motivations of your customer. Levesque's Ask Method provides a way to discover what customers want to buy by guiding them through a series of questions and customizing a solution from them so they are more likely to purchase from you. And all through a completely automated process that does not require one-on-one conversations with every single customer.The Ask method has generated over $100 million in online sales across 23 different industries and counting. Now it is your turn to use it to create a funnel, skyrocket your online income, and create a mass of dedicated fans for you and your company in the process.

BOOST YOUR BUSINESS WITH DIRECT MAILThink direct-mail marketing is a thing of the past? Think again. In our digital world, it's easy to overlook the power of a snail mail marketing piece. You can in fact create a direct-mail marketing campaign that could earn you an ROI as high as 1,300 percent.In The Direct Mail Revolution, legendary copywriting pioneer and marketing expert Robert W. Bly shares direct mail strategies that will transform your business, win you more customers, and earn more profits. Whether you're new to direct mail or need to revamp a local or hyperlocal marketing strategy, this book is your clear, comprehensive blueprint to winning new and ongoing sales with direct mail.Learn how to:Keep your marketing pieces out of the trash with perfectly crafted letters, brochures, postcards, and moreIncrease response rates with the six characteristics of irresistible offersTrack and test the key ingredients of your direct-mail campaignSeamlessly integrate your print and digital marketing efforts for a multidimensional sales funnelGain leads and sales with the “magic words” of direct-response copyAvoid the most common “snail mail” mistakes that will get your marketing ignoredPlus, receive Bly's very own templates, samples, and checklists that have stood the test of time to ensure your direct-mail strategy earns you the success you've been hoping for.

Dan S. Kennedy dares marketers to dramatically simplify their marketing, refocusing on what works. Updated to address the newest media and marketing methods, this marketing masterplan delivers a short list of radically different, little-known, profit-proven direct mail strategies for ANY business. Strategies are illustrated by case history examples from an elite team of consultants—all phenomenally successful at borrowing direct marketing strategies from the world of online sales, infomercials, etc., to use in'ordinary'businesses including retail stores, restaurants, and sales.

Essential reading for those needing to get to grips with the latest and most powerful techniques available to skilled marketers.Direct and Digital Marketing in Practice is the essential manual for all managers, marketers and students. Incisive and thorough, the text has been fully updated to reflect the continuing impact and future implications of the Internet on marketing. This new 3rd edition is one of the only comprehensive textbooks written entirely by current practising professionals. It explains in detail the powerful offline and online techniques available to direct marketers today. Direct and Digital Marketing in Practice covers vital issues such as: · the new marketing landscape; · gaining customer insight; · maximising returns on marketing investment;· integrating traditional and digital media; · campaign planning and budgeting;· offline and online metrics:· testing and statistics; and· developing compelling propositions.Direct and Digital Marketing in Practice is an ideal reference tool, presenting detailed explanations of key concepts with practical examples and case studies. The book ensures that each point is relevant and memorable, and made in a real-world context. Written for managers looking to expand and enhance customer reach, students on MBA courses, and those taking professional qualifications, the book provides an invaluable and up-to-date guide to marketing best theory and practice in our increasingly digital and online age.

The hard part just got easy. You know how to sell—that's your job, after all—but getting CEOs and VIPs to call you back is the tricky part. You're in luck: That impossible-to-reach person isn't so impossible to reach after all.Hall-of-Fame-nominated marketer and Wall Street Journal cartoonist Stu Heinecke discovered that he could get past traditional gatekeepers to reach those elusive executives by thinking outside the box and using personalized approaches he calls''Contact Campaigns.''Including presidents, a prime minister, celebrities, countless CEOs, and even the Danish model who became his wife, Heinecke found that getting meetings with previously unreachable people was easier than ever. Now he shares his tactics and tips in this essential guide for anyone who needs to make contact.In How to Get a Meeting with Anyone, Heinecke explains how you can use your own creative Contact Campaigns to get those critical conversations. He divulges methods he's developed after years of experience and from studying the secrets of others who've had similar breakthrough results—results that other marketers considered impossible, with response rates as high as 100 percent. Through real-life success stories, Heinecke lays out 20 categories of Contact Campaigns that anyone can research and execute. Tactics range from running a contact letter as a full-page ad in The Wall Street Journal to unorthodox uses of the phone, social media, email, and snail mail to using personalized cartoons to make connections. He also packs in plenty of tips on how to determine your targets, develop pitches, and gain allies in your contact's circle of influence.How to Get a Meeting with Anyone provides you with a new toolkit you can put to work right away so you can make the connections that are essential to your success.'

Fact: More commerce and wealth is created by direct mail than by any other media (true before the internet and true now)Direct mail continues to delivers the best ROI for customer acquisition and retention, so why do 21st Century marketers ignore it? Millionaire-maker Dan S. Kennedy and direct mail marketing specialist Craig Simpson urge small business owners to take that detour away from the screen and drive the momentum built via social media and other marketing avenues into the mailboxes of their target consumers. Unlike other direct mail marketing books on the shelf that specialize in one aspect of preparing a campaign such as copywriting or design, this comprehensive solution covers all—the organizational, technical, and creative including designing, budgeting, tracking, and assessing effectiveness. Also covered is how direct mail can be used in today's online marketing funnels. Benefiting from the authors'combined 30 years in direct marketing, business owners are given the guidelines for what works and what doesn't, illustrated by real-life business campaigns that show step-by-step how to build a results-producing promotional campaign.

Kennedy dares marketers to dramatically simplify their marketing, refocusing on what works. Updated to address the newest media and marketing methods, this marketing master plan — from marketing master Kennedy—delivers a short list of radically different, little-known, profit-proven direct mail strategies for ANY business. Strategies are illustrated by case history examples from an elite team of consultants—all phenomenally successful at borrowing direct marketing strategies from the world of mail-order, TV infomercials, etc., to use in'ordinary'businesses including retail stores, restaurants, and sales.

'This book explores technological developments and widespread issues concerning the explosion of mobile devices in the information age'--Provided by publisher.

Direct Marketing for Beginners starts by defining direct marketing and shows what is involved with the process of disintermediation to cut out the middleman and increase profit margins. This book covers direct mail marketing, telemarketing and fax broadcasting. It shows how to effectively use newspapers, magazines, yellow pages, radio and TV. Two chapters are devoted to creating a Web site and provide reviews of eleven Web authoring software packages. They show how to conduct e-commerce and cover software that can be used. They demonstrate how to drive visitors to a Web site using Search Engine Optimization. They cover permission-based e-mail and e-newsletters. A chapter is devoted to selling at auctions on eBay and how to set up an eBay store. Trade shows and flea markets are covered, as well as door-to-door selling, making cold calls and selling at house parties. This book covers the preparation of a marketing plan and reviews some software which can be helpful. The final chapter looks at some of the laws and regulations which govern advertising and marketing together with the Do-Not-Call lists.

The legendary marketing consultant shares the secret to getting the most out of your advertising—by being outrageous—in this classic small business guide.When a sprinkler malfunctioned at his Baltimore menswear store, Bill Glazer could have done the normal thing and sold the wet merchandise to a Jobber—a business that buys damaged goods in bulk. Instead, he did something OUTRAGEOUS: he created an out-of-the-box ad campaign that resulted in far better returns. And it was easy. In this classic guide to small business advertising, Bill teaches readers the secrets to advertising that actually works. Rich with examples and stories showing exactly how to implement a successful OUTRAGEOUS program, this book cracks the code on getting noticed in ways that increase your sales!

If you are involved in field marketing, this is the book for you. Whether you are working within a company and seeking to employ a field marketing agency, or you work for such an agency and want to ensure best practice, The Handbook of Field Marketing is the essential handbook for success.Crammed with self study questions, case studies, and proven advice for success, this book offers a blueprint for best practice, enabling you to undertake robust, rigorous and meaningful brand research. The Handbook of Field Marketing reveals the best techniques to ensure profitable brand maximization for your company's products (or those of the client company), whether measured by brand visibility, product availability, positioning, performance against competitors or overall sales performance.

Network marketing has turned millions of people into successful business owners. But to truly reach their earning potential, network marketers need to successfully grow their businesses by recruiting the right people.Network marketing superstar and recruitment expert Mary Christensen takes the guesswork out of successful recruiting, letting you in on her easy-to-use system for finding and training the right people to sell your product or services, and teaching them to do the same.In Be a Recruiting Superstar, you will learn how to:discover their own recruiting styleidentify people who will become a great part of their teamdo and say the right things to turn prospects into partnersovercome objections with confidenceattract people who never considered network marketingFilled with advice and inspiration, Be a Recruiting Superstar gives network marketers the know-how and confidence they need to grow their enterprise and become top earners.

Drayton Bird's Commonsense Direct and Digital Marketing needs no introduction to marketers and direct marketers. It is not only seen as the authority on direct marketing execution, but is also widely appreciated for its engaging, no-nonsense style.The latest edition takes the book into new territory - the field of digital marketing. It gives the marketer the tools, techniques and structure needed to produce effective and profitable marketing across the direct marketing spectrum -from simple letter to focused web-based campaigns.For anyone involved in direct marketing, from junior marketer to senior manager, this book provides not just the structure for success but also an energising insight into the techniques behind some of the world's most successful direct marketing campaigns.

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Marketing experts know that Direct Marketing is the single most effective way to sell products and services. It is the only form of marketing that is testable, trackable, and, when done the right way, always profitable. Lois K. Geller, a leading Direct Marketing expert, updates her classic book to include the latest tips and techniques, plus expanded coverage of Direct Marketing in the age of the Internet. The new Revised Edition of Response offers all marketers, in any size company, a strategy for creating and sustaining a profitable Direct Marketing program--both on- and off-line. Leading the reader through this program of planning, budgeting, forecasting, testing, building lists, choosing suppliers, selling overseas, and developing loyal customers, Geller explains how to create profitable direct mail packages, print ads, television and radio commercials, inbound and outbound telemarketing programs, and more. Plus, she shows how all of these strategies can be applied to Internet direct marketing, including loyalty programs, online catalogs, fulfillment and customer service, and more. With scores of up-to-date examples drawn from companies large and small, including Ford Motor Company, American Express, and 1-800-Flowers, plus an updated glossary and resource guide, this Revised Edition of Response will be the authoritative source for Direct Marketing strategies and techniques.

Originally published: Englewood Cliffs, N.J. : Prentice-Hall, c1986.

Rev. ed. of: Catalog marketing. 2nd ed. 1988.