…or how to infuriate your customers and followers in one easy lesson. (NOTE: “Mal-Marketing” – a term of my own creation denoting marketing action so poor that not only does it fail to achieve the objective, it actually has damaging business consequences. “Mis-Marketing” or “Dys-Marketing” might also be used.) In the world of personal development, […]
Olympic Copywriting Lessons
So the London 2012 Summer Olympics are over… …and by all accounts have been a great success. I confess that I’m not a great sports fan… …but once I started watching some of the events was quickly drawn in! As a strong advocate of event-driven marketing, you might be wondering why I haven’t been furiously […]
Turning Marketing Trash Into Cash
Guest post from my good mate Pete Godfrey… …with some killer marketing tips on making the most of those old leads you might have hanging around. One tip of my own, from painful marketing experience, is that if you haven’t contacted these old leads for while… ..warm them up with a little relationship building, ideally […]
Drayton Bird On Copywriting And Marketing Today…
I’ve been coming across the name and work of copywriter and direct response marketing maven Drayton Bird a lot lately. That reminded me of an interview that Clayton Makepeace conducted with Drayton for the members of his copywriting membership program. It’s one of the best interviews on contemporary marketing that I’ve come across. I had […]