Direct Marketing Strategy
George Clay
Slick marketing is out.
Frugal market testing is in.
And once again tested direct marketing strategy is in favor.
Direct Marketing Strategy Tips
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Test everything on a small scale.
Keep what works…discard what does not work.
In this way costly mistakes are avoided.
Bottom Line: The book is a gold mine of tested direct marketing strategy tips that will change the way you think and act about marketing small business regardless of where you decided to run your ads.
Done right, any product or service can be market tested using these direct marketing strategy tips.
Research proves that one ad can sell 15 1/2 times more than another…that with small differences in copy or headline one ad can pull FIVE times more orders than its competitor.
But it wasn’t always so!
In the early days of advertising there was almost no research.
Then came the depression….when cost-conscious advertisers DEMANDED to factors behind the success or failure of advertisements.
This is when meaningful, scientific advertising really began. This is when WISE advertisers learned how to test and measure the efficiency of their selling efforts.
They learned what kinds of headlines attract the most readers…why copy under pictures gets higher reading…which kinds of pictures get attention…how split-copy advertising works…which appeals succeed…which fail.
They learned that almost any question about the effectiveness of their advertising could be answered cheaply, quickly, and finally by a test campaign. And that’s the only way to answer them — not by arguments among corporate decision makers.
Hey, It’s YOUR Money!
- “Advertising is a business of words, but advertising agencies are infested with men and women who cannot write. They cannot write advertisements, and they cannot write plans. They are helpless as deaf mutes on the stage of the Metropolitan Opera.” …David Ogilvy,OGILVY ON ADVERTISING
- “I do not regard advertising as entertainment or an art form, but as a medium of information.” David Ogilvy
- “Remember that the people you address are selfish, as we all are. They care nothing about your interest or your profit. They seek service for themselves. Ignoring this fact is a common mistake and a costly mistake in advertising. Ads say in effect, “Buy my brand. Give me the trade you give to others. Let me have the money.” That is not a popular appeal.” .…Claude Hopkins, SCIENTIFIC ADVERTISING
Category: Lead Generation & Appointment Setting, Market Testing Strategies, Outsourced Sales Prospecting, Outsourced Sales Support
