Archive for the ‘Essential Guides’ Category

Don’t give up! The art of warming cold sales prospects

Posted: February 3rd, 2012 by Daryl Jay comment-icon 0

Drayton Bird, one of the world’s most successful copywriters and a man to have on your side when you want to warm your business cold prospects

The Email Marketing Myth

Posted: January 10th, 2012 by Julie Knight comment-icon 3

You’ve probably got some pretty strong ideas on email marketing if, like most folk in the business to business sector, your inbox is regularly deluged with all manner of offers – some pretty sound, others exceptionally dubious – from individuals and businesses you’ve never heard of before.

How To Write Sales Letters That Sell!

Posted: January 6th, 2012 by Suzanne Stock comment-icon 2

A sales letter is an enduring, iconic communication within a mailshot. Long before the luxury of more elaborate communications such as sales flyers, quizzes and brochures the humble sales letter was working its magic.

Make Mine a Mailshot!

Posted: December 22nd, 2011 by Julie Knight comment-icon 0

If you want to move mountains with your next business to business mailshot, but are unsure where to start, these tips should help you.

Is British Business Being Let Down By Email Marketing?

Posted: October 20th, 2011 by Simon Deakin comment-icon 2

Email marketing has been with us for a few years now, and many companies use it effectively to maintain relationships with their clients, keeping them informed of new products, upgrades and offers.

Using QR Codes for Direct Marketing

Posted: September 22nd, 2011 by Suzanne Stock comment-icon 3

The appearance of QR codes has been pretty sudden (you probably didn’t notice any at all six months ago) and so many people are still unsure what they do, or how they work. So below we try to answer some of the questions that you may have about QR codes and in doing so, hopefully give you a better idea of how they may be able to work for you.

Pay for High Quality Prospect Lists or go for ‘Cheap as Chips?

Posted: September 15th, 2011 by Daryl Jay comment-icon 3

Bringing this blog topic right into the heart of our universe, that list of prospects bought for buttons from a list broker selling ‘rock bottom price prospect lists’ appears to be a fantastic deal until the bounce backs and ‘gone away’ start to flood through, outstripping the positive responses by a mile.

How Telemarketing Can Be A Useful Marketing Tool

Posted: September 6th, 2011 by Daryl Jay comment-icon 0

It can be tempting to invest your marketing energies in a delightful whirl of networking, punctuated with a little bit of Twitter, a lot of LinkedIn and a few timely press releases when you have news to shout from the rooftops. If your business is thriving on this palette of marketing activity, then you can enjoy the rest of this blog without having to bring yourself up short and question whether you could and should be doing more.

Increasing your Response Rates: Targeting your mailshot

Posted: September 1st, 2011 by Marketscan comment-icon 0

The key factors that lead to success in writing and designing direct mail are all psychological – they are to do with the individual.

Selecting the Right Telemarketing Agency for Your Business Needs

Posted: September 1st, 2011 by Marketscan comment-icon 0

While cold calling is one of the most successful and cost effective ways to generate new business leads, for many companies it can also be time consuming and difficult. So it is not surprising that more businesses are choosing to employ the services of a telemarketing company to make calls on their behalf. However, with so many different telemarketing companies out there how do you decide who to use?

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