by The Marketing Rebel Team | Lessons
Here is a version of another ad I talk about in “Kick-Ass Copywriting Secrets”. The client is a “coach”– a consultant who helps doctors get their act together. Which, for most health care professionals, means reducing stress and...
by The Marketing Rebel Team | Lessons
Staying on top of the martial arts market is no walk in the park. It’s not like baseball, where the rules and skills required stay pretty much the same for decades. Fighting skills change dramatically and constantly, as last year’s “big thing”...
by The Marketing Rebel Team | Lessons
This is the third in the series of hyper-effective cover letters…this is an introductory post that refers to all five of the letters. We are reprinting the same post for each of the letters. One of the biggest mistakes marketers make… is to get tired of...
by The Marketing Rebel Team | Lessons
Sometimes we all like to pretend we’re not motivated by money. That’s fine to believe if you want…but you cannot afford such delusions if you are a marketer. People respond to money at a visceral level They almost never receive money for free, and...
by The Marketing Rebel Team | Lessons
The check on the first page of the letter PDF comes stapled to the letter behind it. This is one of TRS’s best-selling teachers … and one of the reasons for that is his willingness to let me write outrageous copy. The beauty in this technique is the way...
by The Marketing Rebel Team | Lessons
Here is an example of “pre-positioning” a piece to your house list. In example “A” — sent to the hottest clients on the house list — Leo genuinely wanted to know how bodybuilders would react to this new product. I suggested we...
by The Marketing Rebel Team | Lessons
Golf is one of those golden markets that is clearly targeted…and populated with people who have an irrational passion for the sport. They don’t bat an eye when I address them as “golf nuts” (which I frequently do). They...
by The Marketing Rebel Team | Lessons
I struggled for years to get Rodale to use personalization in a letter. My other clients found that personalizing a letter boosted response by as much as 30% — a very significant increase to the bottom line. Working with large mailers, you are pitted...
by The Marketing Rebel Team | Lessons
You have to imagine what was going on in Rodale’s collective head at the time. This is a very conservative, east-Pennsylvania-based publisher — one of the largest mailers in the world. But their main fare are books on gardening, health, folk recipes, stuff...
by The Marketing Rebel Team | Lessons
This is an ancient manuscript for an ad I wrote maybe 15 years ago. If you know anything about me personally, you know I’m the worst sort of pack-rat there is. I have dozens of banker’s boxes in the garage stuffed with files, notes, ads and...
