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Small Business Marketing: This month's issue inside! Open up
Here’s the front page of this month’s Seductive Selling Newsletter: Seductive Selling is approaching the start of it’s 6th year being published, and it’s now read in 14 countries world-wide. You can test-drive it free for 30 days, and when you do this, you get loads of freebies, including CDs, DVD, other back-issues, two copywriting…
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Small Business Marketing: 3 quick announcements…
In meeting all day, second day of my Mastermind Group meeting… but I have a few quick announcements: 1. After a number of requests, we recently re-did our products page. The old one was a mess, let me know if the new one is cleaner and clearer. Thanks. 2. I’m going to be in New…
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Copywriting tips: 2 Reasons why curiosity works so damn well
2 Reasons why curiosity works so damn well Want to know why curiosity works so well? Want to be able to make your buyers so curious they’ll go to the ends of the world to find out what you’re offering them? And do you want to know why you feel so incredibly overwhelmed when your…
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Emotional Direct-Response Marketing – Friday, 4:04 am: anger, health, your family, and a very unusual dream
I had an extremely unusual dream last night. Unusual because of the subject matter, the completeness and thoroughness of what I did in my dream, and because it was all extremely vivid. This is going to be somewhat of a long story, but as all good stories go, you can’t paint a beautiful canvas on…
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quick fb favor to ask you
If you own my book, or if you’re familiar with it, can you please do me a favor and click the “Like” button on top of this web page? Also, we’ve now received so many incredible success stories we’ve added ANOTHER guarantee on this book. Not only do you get an unconditional Lifetime Guarantee, but…
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Emotional Direct-Response Marketing: Want to meet with me in New York City on March 8th?
I’m going to be in New York City the second week of March, so if you want to book a full or half-day of consulting with me, and you’re in that area, contact my office now. We’ve had a couple of inquiries on this and you know how things go. People hum and haw over…
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Copywriting tips: 3 things you'd better NEVER put in your guarantee
Yesterday, we were talking about the 4 things you must include in your guarantees. Today, we’ll go the other way. There are a few things you never want to do when it comes to guarantees, so let’s go through them, right now. 1. Never issue a “conditional only” guarantee. And that’s because you’re implying there’s…
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Small Business Marketing: 4 things your guarantees MUST be offering
First, quick update to let you know I’m going to start putting together the material for the “How To Be A Real Person In Your Sales Copy” workshop, beginning later today. We’ll run the workshop either the last week of this month, or more likely the first week of February, since my Mastermind Group will…
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Direct Marketing Strategies: Best. Issue. Ever.
Between the fact that Seductive Selling is approaching the start of it’s 6th year being published, and the start of a new year… I wanted to open up the January issue with a bang, and Lord knows I’ve done exactly this, and more. Before I reveal all the goodies in this month’s issue, let me…
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Direct Marketing Strategies – Almost always overlooked: 3 things you'll miss without this
I can’t emphasize enough how important it is to use guarantees in your offers. But not for the reasons you’re probably thinking. In fact, guarantees are so important, I’ve even used them when I’m giving free information away. There is virtually NO downside to using guarantees unless you’re just selling garbage. In which case, you…
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Small Business Marketing: Who else wants to meet me in NYC on Tuesday, March 8th?
Pay attention: I’m going to be in New York City the second week of March, so if you want to book a full, OR half-day of consulting with me, and you’re in that area, contact my office right away. I’m on vacation, not business, so I’m only going to have ONE day available for this,…
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Small Business Marketing: Top 5 Posts of 2010
I publish a lot of content, so I thought it would be interesting to see the Top 5 posts I made last year. The results were odd, to say the least. I’ll share them with you, from most popular on down: 1. http://blog.kingofcopy.com/maxlaunch/timessquare/ The funny thing is, I HATE making videos — I have a…
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Small Business Marketing: Money… from dust
Special announcement later today. But first, here’s a very simple strategy you can use, to create a surge of money out of virtually nothing. It’s nothing mind-blowing, just one of those things you need to be reminded of, or prodded to do, that can bring in a windfall of cash from out of nowhere. Ready?…
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Small Business Marketing – Re: hey, quick question
Last Friday I sent an e-mail out (see below), and the response was overwhelmingly “YES!” So this will be a go in the next couple of weeks, and to answer a few questions that came in as well: 1. Yes, the Q & A will be recorded and made available as part of the product…
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Small Business Marketing: quick question
I need your opinion on a teleseminar I’m thinking of putting on. one thing i’ve heard literally dozens and dozens of times over the years, from people who meet me through business, is: “Craig is a real guy. He’s the same guy you see in his daily e-mails and in his products.” Apparently, “being real”…
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Small Business Marketing: 3 rules of bundling = fast $$
Here’s a very simple, and comparatively quick way of making some extra cash — fast. It’s called ‘bundling,’ and it’s done all the time in consumer goods industry — especially things like entertainment. You just package a few products together and then offer some kind of high value perceived deal for them. For instance, if…
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In the real world, the best decisions you make, are usually the ones you can spend at least “some” time mulling over. Being forced into making a decision is uncomfortable. Imagine having to decide, in a knee-jerk situation, where your kids should go to school… the kind of neighborhood your family should live in… or…
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Small Business Marketing: Meet me in NYC?
I will be in New York City the second week of March, so if you want to book a full, or half-day of consulting with me, and you are in that area, you can do this now. I am on vacation so I will not have more than one full day available for consulting. I…
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Small Business Marketing: 3 Ways to charge higher prices in 2011
When it comes to small business marketing, there are only three ways to make more money: 1. Charge higher prices… 2. Get more customers… 3. Or get your customers to spend more money with you each time they buy. Let’s talk about how you can charge higher prices in 2011. For starters, make sure you’re…
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Small Business Marketing, Free Test Drive: Oh, one more thing, and it's important
I normally only allow new people to take a free test-drive of Seductive Selling during the month the current issue is published. So for example, typically, if you want the December issue, you’ve got to order it in December. I am going to make a one-time exception to this, because of the holiday. Most people…
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