Another Way to Get a Boost from Testimonials |
Are You Making These Web Mistakes? |
Avoid These Blunders in Publicity Seeking |
Banking on Consequences |
Beware the Reach of the Law |
Big-time Web Blunders |
Catch the Eye of a Journalist |
Commit Yourself to Excellence! |
Compete or Cooperate? |
Crucial Words for Your Web Site |
Customer Comments Count! |
Customers You're Not Serving...Yet |
Dispel the Mystery! |
Do You Have the PR Mindset? |
Enjoy Holiday Gift Publicity by Acting Now |
Get a Bigger Payoff from Benefits |
Get Creative for Next Year's Bounty |
Giveaways Help Your Business Grow |
How to Create a Non-Starter |
How to Freshen Up Your Offerings |
Move to the "Like 'Em" Zone |
Mysterious Customer Decisions |
Not Wanting is Normal! |
Notes on Newsworthiness |
Phone Power! |
Photographic Self-Sabotage |
Play it Safe When Citing Research |
Productivity Secrets Spilled! |
Questions? Not Necessarily for Marketing |
Responding Effectively to Reporters |
Secretive Clients? No Problem |
Shape-shifting Content |
Shortcut to Media Insights |
Tantalize with Questions |
Test Your Knowledge of Online PR |
Testimonial Tips |
The Repeater Bird Gets the... |
Thriving in a Recession |
Timeliness Pays Off |
Track Your Sources of Business |
Train Your Sights on the Future |
"Umm, but what IS it?" |
Want to be Liked? Uh-oh! |
Weird Can Be Wallet-Warming |
What's Better than Customers or Users |
Why a CEO Isn't Simply a CEO |
A Publicity Success Story |
Analyze Purchasing Triggers |
Are Your Words 95-Pound Weaklings? |
Avoid the Dismal Middle |
Avoiding Self-Sabotage |
Client Crises - Resolved or Rejected? |
Create a Bond With Readers |
Create a Dependable Pipeline |
Create Marketing Momentum |
Dancing the Old Two-Step |
Develop Your Sixth Sense |
Don't Insult One Group to Woo Another |
Drop your prices? Not so fast. |
Eliminate Purchase Delays |
Enjoy More Believability |
Get Your New Product into the News |
Got pets? They're a great publicity draw. |
Guarantees are not enough. |
Head Off Buyer's Remorse |
How Much Does Marketing Cost? |
Innovation Isn't Enough |
It's gorgeous, but.... |
Listening: A Powerful Business Skill |
Make a Distinctive Impression |
Make Every Nickel Count |
Media Release Checklist |
New Year Reflections |
Nothing "Sells Itself" |
Pictures Should Support the Words |
Prices, prices... |
Print Newsletter: Wise Move or Hopelessly Retro? |
Purple Cows and Brown Ones |
Remember the fundamentals. |
Start Today on This Tip |
Sunny Side Up, Please |
Telephone classes: a new marketing tool |
The Wording Counts |
They said I had to |
They WILL Find Out! |
To Archive or Not? |
Trade Show Creativity |
Turn Weakness into Strength |
Web Site Failures Epidemic, Says Forrester |
When Customers Act Weirdly |
Write Articles to Grow Your Business |
A Customer Question is a Gift |
Add Dimension to Expertise |
Advanced Use of Testimonials |
Always an Adventure |
Are You Too Making This Web Site Mistake? |
Become Unforgettable |
Beware "Me Too" Marketing |
Case Study Tips |
Commodity? No, opportunity. |
Each Customer is Unique |
Easily Package What You Know |
Explicitly Ask |
Extended Metaphors Pack Punch |
For Smoother Client Relations, Clarify Expectations |
Get Suspense Working in Your Favor |
Gold on Your Hard Drive |
Have a Bold Year |
High-Value Marketing |
How to Market "on Hold" |
"How to" Products With a Twist |
Inspire People to Spend |
Luring Investors |
Make 2005 Your Most Creative Year |
Marketing a Local Business |
Media Coverage That Makes You a Star |
Minimize Waste? Or Maximize ROI? |
No One Likes Mystery Meat |
Not Obvious, Not Shared |
Numbers Don't Tell a Story |
Promotional Partnering Pitfalls |
Publicity Easier Than Ever Next Week |
Pursue Holiday Publicity |
Recognize Your Own Jargon |
Referrals: To Get More, Give More |
Scarcity as a Motivator |
Seek Influencers |
Selling Bite-Sized Advice |
Set the Right Tone |
Simplify Their Decision Making |
Sleep Aids Creativity |
Strategic Surveys Get You Noticed at the Top |
Strategically Structure Options |
Survey Competitors |
Take the Web Site Makeover Quiz |
Telltale Signs of Hype |
Always Include an Offer |
Are You In Front of Customers Enough? |
Avoid This Four-Letter "W" Word |
Building a Non-Local Clientele |
Choose Your Clients |
Consider an Annual Service Plan |
Credibility Audit |
Delayed Purchases |
Desperation Tactics That Work |
Establish Marketing Benchmarks |
Everyone Knows - or Do They? |
Face-to-Face Power |
How to Get Brilliant Blurbs |
How to Make Sense |
Instead of Overwhelming Buyers |
Lead Generation for Beginners |
Make New Customers, But Keep the Old |
Metaphors to the Rescue |
Name Change Blues |
Names Can Bring Good Fortune |
Network Creatively |
No More Rejection! |
Not Advertising? Think Again |
Online Portfolios and Samples |
Only Reconnect |
Preparing for Publicity |
Protect Your Marketing |
Publicity Bonanza |
Publicity Hungry? The News Release Lives |
Publicity Stunts are Double-Edged |
Recombining Content |
Redefine Yourself - Why and How |
Repackaging Ideas |
Slow Down to Cheer Up |
Small Touches, Big Impact |
Testimonial Tips |
The Beginner's Advantage |
The Familiarity Effect is Real |
"Three Foot" Promotions |
Trade Show Strategy |
Want Fries With That? |
Way Cool Statistics |
Web Site Excellence: A Cold Look |
When Pictures Don't Tell the Story |
Words Can Tickle and Tantalize |
You vs. Me; Upcoming Copywriting Course |
Your Client's Inner Child |
Your Messages: Alive or Dead? |
Your Preferences Shouldn't Rule |
25-Year Marketing Insights |
25-Year Marketing Insights, Continued |
More 25-Year Marketing Insights |
25-Year Marketing Insights, Last Installment |
When They Don't Get It |
To Persuade, Prepare |
Appreciative Gestures Have Great Impact |
Minimalism Doesn't Sell |
Reclothing Your Content |
Publish, Don't Perish |
The Two-Step Fills Your Dance Card |
Know Your Audience |
The Fly in the Offer |
Unbury Your Credentials |
Capitvating Product Names |
Slim Down Your Client List |
The Limits Of Testing |
Make Your Clients Famous |
Embrace Controversy |
Pitfalls of Before & After |
Terse Temptation |
Raise Prices Simply |
Brainstorming Publicity Stunts |
Reflections On Refunds |
Readability Tips |
Your Own Magazine? |
Pricing Psychology Quirks |
How to Be Personable |
Setting a Standard |
How to Spin Information |
Caginess Kills Publicity |
Create Buzzworthy Products |
Can You Please Everyone? |
Newsletter Foibles: Are You Guilty? |
Becoming the Backstage Adviser |
Make Any Widget Captivating |
Back End Building |
Word-shy? You're Not Alone |
Reactivating Customers |
Give Customers Options |
Cheesy or Credible? Your Choice |
Using Hot Buttons |
Multiple Hot Buttons |
Commodity Fears? |
A Publicity Blueprint |
Preach Subtly |
Inspired by Magazines |
The Snowflake Principle |
Orient Site Visitors |
The Grapevine Speaks |
Time for "Thank You" |
Attract or Chase? |
Be Quotable |
Sky-High Possibilities |
Google Ads: Don't Be Tacky |
The Cost of Carelessness |
Breathe Life Into Abstractions |
Treasures at the Dump |
What About Average Joe and Jane? |
When Less is More |
Freshen Up Formulaic Writing |
Avoid Pronoun Pitfalls |
Blogs Can Hurt, Too |
Magazine Articles Get You in the Door |
Making Taxes Less Cruel |
Incentives and Identity |
Spring Cleaning for Marketers |
Be Yourself - Dressed Up |
Let Your Inner Wisdom Speak |
Domain Troubles? |
Latest = Greatest? |
Be Prejudiced Against Adverbs |
Overcome Wordy Writing |
Surprise, Surprise |
Maximizing Media Hits |
Should You Exaggerate? |
Harness Attraction |
Attracting the Wrong Crowd? |
Compile Facts to Earn Publicity |
To Sell'em, Tell'em |
Expand Your Online Footprint |
Revisit Dropped Projects |
Focus Pocus Dominocus |
The 180-Degree Turnaround |
Talent Shamalent! |
Prevent Obsolescense |
Prevent Product Falloff |
The 5% Rule: Why Success is Easy |
Why Mentoring Produces Focus |
Serve, Don't Be Subservient |
Persuade Your Dog |
Consider Audio Branding |
Savvy Samples |
Leash Your Creativity - a Bit |
Researching or Ready to Buy? |
Expand Your Repertoire of Offers |
Don't Get Clubby |
It's Crystal Ball Time |
Tie Into a Trend |
The Literary Agent Reversal |
No More Thoughtless Killing |
Percieved Value Requires a Price |
The Old Can Be Endlessly New |
The Magnum Opus Trap |
Location, Location |
Do-It-Once Marketing |
In a Recession, Reconnect |
Narrow Their Options |
What's At Stake? |
Be the One Who Takes Action |
Tune Up Your Voice |
Benefits of Q&A |
Why Would They Pay? |
Cultivate True Fans |
Where's the Start Button? |
Typos and YouTube |
Simple Shortcut to Productivity |
Convince Us! |
Worried About Bothering Customers? |
Beware Blog Bog |
Writing is Thinking |
Reaching High-probability Customers |
Reputation Pays |
Stay on Point |
Got Marketing Clutter? |
Recession? Don't Run Scared |
Low Volume Marketing Ideas |
Information Is Inert |
Got Piggyback on a Habit |
How 1 + 1 = 11 |
Pricing: Don't Explain |
The Get-Clients-Next-Week Formula |
Show Your Heart? |
New Email No-No's |
Eliminate Ordering Obstacles |
Don't Make Us Wonder |
Create Entry Points |
Slice Ideas Small |
Imagine Objections |
The Secret Of Stamina |
Hmm, Will It Sell? |
Inject Fun into Fundraising |
Recycle Your Ideas |
A Mile in Their Shoes |
What's Next? |
Turn Weakness Upside Down |
Don't Get Drained by Questions |
Creative First Footing options |
Ditch the Pitch? |
How to Start or Restart Now |
Good Web Sites Screen Two Ways |
Good News for Procrastinators |
Release the Pressure |
Piggyback on Surveys |
Heads Up to Local Media |
Got Blogging Bogdown? |
Solving Publicity Procrastination |
Facebook Without Fear |
Is Describing Your $64,000 Challenge? |
Be Choosy - Even in a Recession |
From Brand to Lifestyle |
Google News Visibility |
Cherchez le Sentiment |
Gliches? Stay Calm |
Unbundle Products and Services |
Customers on Call |
Marketing Something Unfamiliar |
Email Only? Maybe Not |
Get Them Involved |
Use the News |
Rethink Your Rationale? |
Indentify Futile Efforts |
What You Already Know |
A Plan Cuts Suffering |
How to Be More Useful |
Become Relevant to Niches |
Three Cheers for Checklists |
Take the Pain Out of Prices |
The Point, Please! |
Move It Ahead |
Surprising Gender Senders |
Be Believable |
Weird Response Boosters |
Everyone Knows This - Don't They? |
Short & Tweet |
The "Behind the Curtain" Pitfall |
Your "By the Way" Assets |
Why Quality? |
"High Touch" Marketing |
From Knower to Teacher |
Never Sell to Androids |
From One-timers to Long-timers |
Become More Appetizing |
The "One Up" Factor |
Four Blog Writing Formulas |
Timely Tantalizers |
Welcoming or Dictorial? |
Become an Octopus |
Plan Positively |
Silent Like Cal |
Should You Guilt-Trip Customers? |
Time to Let Go? |
Foreign Flavor |
Year-End Thanks |
Acquire Perfect Timing |
Hit A Home Run |
When Creativity Backfires |
The Bigfoot Strategy |
Beware Misplaced Pride |
A Behavioral Branding Audit |
Create A Branded System |
Promoting Multiple Items |
Understand Your Limits |
Why Good Enough Stinks |
Sensory Writing...Mmm! |
Pigeonhole Yourself |
Pigeonhole Yourself - Part II |
Are You Genuinely Green? |
Your Value, Understood |
Your Value, Understood - Part II |
Perk Up Your Bio |
One Small Momentous Step |
Four Gotta-Have-It Factors |
Completion = Power? |
Important But Not Urgent |
What Goes Without Saying |
Can You Predict What Will Sell? |
Be a Good Client |
Your Expert Image |
Three Ways Messages Derail |
Going Negative, Positively |
Create Non-Vanilla Web Content |
Oh,You Do That? |
Convenience Appeals |
The Dynamics of Refferals |
Mr. Bean's Business Philosophy |
The Bump from Secondary Publicity |
Accepting Feedback is Hard |
People Don't Shop Around |
Where's Your Testing Ground? |
Master the Buget Dance |
Highlight Their Dilemma |
Melodious Selling |
Numbers Gone Wild |
Acquire Poise |
Are You Trusted? |
A Tale of Two Banks |
The Value of Effort |
Clear Your Head |
Blog Commenting 101 |
Apologies That Defuse Disaster |
Star Power Possibilities |
Tools That Change Minds |
In the Giving Spirit? |
The Best Way to Market |
A No-Juggling Marketing Plan |
Is It Hype? |
Play It Again, With a Twist |
Be Safe, Be Sorry |
Customer Friendly Blogs |
Beware Bogus Facts |
Why Now? |
Should You Explain? |
Help for Untouchability |
Marketing is Not Democracy |
Oops Recovery Tips |
Understanding Complainers |
Over Their Heads |
The Elite Conciet |
Intangibles That Matter |
Uniqueness is Overrated |
Customers' Priorities |
Curating Do's and Don'ts |
Reviving Old Products |
Mindset Above All |
Alternative Realities |
Expect (or Exploit) Backlash |
Eliminate Summer Slowdown |
Notice Buyer's Filters |
Launch, Schmaunch! |
From Paste to Disgrace |
Between the Lines |
Attracting Your Best Clients |
Competing With DIY |
From Customer to Fan |
Will They Spend? |
Simple, Straight and Powerful |
Priceless? Huh |
Long or Short? |
The "Lovably Ugly" Principle |
Infographics for Publicity |
Why Exaggeration Exploits |
Social Media Your Way |
Accidental Branding |
The "More" Dynamic |
Create Motivating Postcards |
Credibility From a Study |
Headlines That Get Clicked |
Ideas Are In You |
Nothing to Say? |
Your Business, Your Way |
Painless New Habits |
Audit Your Assets |
Turbocharge Your Expertise |
Putting Out Feelers |
Retiring a Product |
The Anti-Barnum Dilemma |
How to Take the Edge Off Bragging |
An Experiment in Adding Value |
Asking and Accepting |
Worthy of Mistrust |
Heighten Anticipation |
Hook Them First |
Best Branding Stories |
Preventing Disappointed Buyers |
Not a Numbers Game |
Cuteness to Die For |
Customer Complaint Stories |
About "About" Pages |
Transparency's Disadvantages |
Got Clients From Hell? |
Is a Niche Necessary? |
Develop the Nerve to Observe |
Self-Diagnosis Possibilities |
Do Refunds Bend You Out of Shape? |
"Can't Afford It": A Tricky Pharse |
Who Is Wrong? |
Prevent Customer Freakouts |
Hard Questions Help |
Priorities Count-a Lot |
Avoid Fake Intimacy |
Your Flawed Mental Measuring Stick |
The Familiarity Factor |
When Humor Works |
Lead the Horse to the Trough |
Woo Fanatics |
Even More Useful |
What's Impressive? |
How to Hook Know-it-Alls |
Trust Me! |
Instead of Bragging |
'Tis the Season |
Positivity Wins |
In the Know |
Must Popularity Rule? |
Must Scale Prevail? |
Predictions and Trends |
Is Exaggeration OK? |
Finding "Just Right" |
Business Model Consequences |
Play It Again, Sam? |
Many Roads to Salesville |
Beyond Retribution and Kickbacks |
The "Are You Talking to Me?" Illusion |
Goals Near and Far; 35 Years in Business |
Calming Customer's Nerves |
Rationing Customer Support |
Keeping It Snappy |
Distinctiveness |
The Imperial Put-On |
The Tricky Business of Awareness |
Provide a "Why" |
Thoughts on "Haters" |
Kooky (But Real) Reasons People Buy |
Benefits Above All |
Hitiching Your Wagon to a Star |
More Reader-Friendly Blogs |
Four Dimensons of Selling |
Minimalist Marketing |
Cracks and All? |
Are You a Business or a Cause? |
Too Many Words? |
Deals, Deals, Deals |
Talents Have Two Sides |
Prevent Word Misfires |
The Classic Power of Contrast |
User Recognition |
Build Credibility Without Bragging |
How to Warm Up Cold Prose |
It's for Everyone? |
Not-So-Little Credibility Booster |
Mythic Echoes |
Facts Need Context |
Credentials Count |
Avoid Anonymity |
Must You Have Uniqueness? |
Head Off Doubts and Objections |
Liven Up Your Language |
The Power of Segments |
Risk and Reward |
Shunning the Quacks |
The "Let's Get Started" Offer |
Who Is Your Model |
Discounting Errors |
Timing Counts |
Customer Fear |
Avoid Praise Inflation |
Imagination Has Real Effects |
The Risk of Annoyances |
Doubt Comes Out |
The Wrong Audience |
New Year's Changes |
Should You Always Negotiate |
Generosity and Greed in Getting Media Coverage |
Problems That Are Less Powerful |
Company Naming Fundalmentals |
Be Brave When It Comes to Slime |
Is It Simple Enough? |
Why Talk to Outsiders |
How to Look Smart |
Humor in a Pinch |
Do You Write Lazy Emails? |
Are You Authoritative? |
Niching Nerves |
Odd Benefits, Offbeat Advantages |
Up Against a Devil |
Your Customers' Hassles |
Toward Self-Reliance |
The River of Ideas |
Parasitic Business Branding |
Get Percolating on Perks |
A Monumentous Marketing Intervention |
Sometimes, More is Less |
Half-Baked Products? |
Negativity Pros and Cons |
Don't Just Simmer This Summer |
The Diplomatic Sandwich |
Costly Omissions |
A Mental Obstacle |
Is Marketing War? |
Question Every "Every" |
Why Failure Is a Choice |
The Simplest Stories |
Haven't Felt Like It? |
You May Need to Do It Over |
Don't Invalidate Customers |
Healthy Business Boundaries |
The Price of Cynicism |
Your Audience vs. the World |
Richer Customer Stories |
How Emotion Persuades |
The Best? Hmm. |
Yes, You! Creative Personalization |
Should You Box Yourself In? |
The Beckoning |
Apologies That Misfire |
The "Tell Me More" Effect |
Warring Contact Preferences |
A Crowdfunding Trap |
Imaginative Selling |
2018 Marketing Trends |
Productivity Buddies |
What's a Business Relationship? |
Don't Make Decisions in a Bubble |
The Willpower Myth |
Look for Editorial Calendars |
"Anyone Can Do It" |
Storytelling Constraints Online |
Subscriber Meetups |
Statistics Slipups |
Reassessing Your Message |
Lopsided Appeal |
Why the Worst Isn't Always Catastrophic |
Our Blind Spots |
On So-called Lost Business |
Unnecessary Comentary |
Inane vs. Dynamic Questions |
Are You Spreading Junk Science? |
The Power of Customer Quotes |
Let Your Gems Shine Twice |
Beyond Winning and Losing |
All-Inclusive or Itemized Pricing? |
Crown Neglected Content or Products |
Orignal Research |
When Opportunity Knocks, Do You Answer? |
Catastrophe? Or Just Worth a Shrug? |
The 1 Percent Challenge |
Only Three Questions |
For Some Shoppers, Privacy Matters |
Priceless Inside Access |
A Trust-Building Checklist |
Respect Word Connotations |
How to Strengthen Your Perspective |
Sounds Like... |
Tolerate Boredom |
The Hocus Pocus of Deadlines |
Reasons for Renaming |
Left Out of the Picture |
A Checklist for Humor in Marketing |
One Recipe for Scrumptious Headlines |
Pass-through Learning |
The Tricky Business of Trends |
No Experience? How to Handle That |
Take Care of This So Readers Care |
Be the Challenger |
Is It OK to Lie in Business? |
Say No to Violent Metaphors |
The Well-Rounded Marketer |
Presumptuous Chumminess |
Fear of Nagging |
Persuasive Blind Spots |
Come One, Come All? |
Whose Fault? |
The Media Hunger for Tips |
6 Ways to Make Numbers Count in Content |
Over Their Heads and Far From Their Comprehension |
Likeability? Bah! |
Creativity Rituals |
Identify the "Why" |
What Demonstrates Your Character? |
How Many Minutes to Write a Marketing Minute? |
In Email, Set the Content |
"Expose Me!" |
Joyful Taglines |
The Content Effect |
Do Your Best Work - Always |
Timeless Blunders |
Promote Your Golden Oldies |
The "Grow or Die" Fallacy |
Who is Listening - or Buying? |
Do They Really Understand? |
To Fudge or Not to Fudge |
Never-ending News Hooks |
Why You Should Lose Clients |
The Intimidation Factor |
No-Experience Opportunities |
On Giving Offense |
"Sort of This, Sort of That" Dosen't Sell |
Read It, Believe It |
The Real Thing's Value |
Notes About Votes (in Marketing) |
Bragging About Bigness |
Mini-Stories for Big Impact |
Marketing With Respect |
"Is It Worth It?" |
A Do-gooder Pitfall |
The "Grow or Die" Fallacy |
Trendy Jargon is Unfriendly |
Did You Name Your Car? |
Video Marketing by Personality |
Social Media by Personality |
Networking by Personality |
Pleasure vs. Pain as Motivators |
Gender Slants |
Got Data? Find Its Drama |
Do You Qualify? |
Publicity Ideas Galore |
Don't Be So Sure |
On Marketing Gimmicks |
What About Impact? |
Tips About Guilt Trips |
The "What" vs. the "So What" |
Do You Overcommit? |
Will It Sell? |
How to Prevent Sticker Shock |
On Terrible Advice |
Impress Them as Yourself? |
Coronavirus Emails |
Virtual Meetings |
Book Projects Now |
Make Better Predictions |
Don't Have a Tin Ear |
Communicate How You're Helping |
Accommodate Today's "Cognitive Load" |
Do You Dread Negative Reviews? |
Who Scratches Whose Back? |
Should You Blog When Angry? |
The Right Advisor |
Your Six-Feet-Separation Self-introduction |
The Inside Scoop |
Too Much? |
In Marketing, Acronyms are SNAMU |
Why Anyone and Everyone Equals No One |
Who Counts More? |
Credibility Gap |
"Free" Doesn't Sell Itself |
Customer Empathy |
Do Words Mean What They Say? |
Adapt to These Eight Cultural Shifts |
Should You Blame the Boogeyman? |
Be Taken Seriously |
A Tale of Two Startups |
Strategic Imperfection |
Do Stories Always Win the Day? |
Be Heard as Well as Seen |
Why Curated Content Beats Free |
Clean Beats Messy |
Crowdfunding to the Rescue? Nope |
Have You Unwittingly Shredded Your Welcome Mat? |
Email, Phone or Zoom? |
Not Everyone is "With It"! |
Do You Undermine Yourself? |
Let's Dethrone the Majestic Plural |
Three Elements of Rapport |
Heads Up on Marketing Trends |
Should You "Fake It Till You Make It"? |
Vulnerability: A Contrary View |
Signposts; 40th Anniversary Special |
Confront Your Obstacle |
Add Some Zing to That Thing |
Quotability and Impact |
Dimensionalize With Details |
ShouldYou Shed Unscalable Tasks? |
Is It Time for a Rhyme? |
Crank Up Your Prose With E-Prime |
Avoiding the 56 Percent Trap |
With Cultural Allusions, Be Cautious |
Do Stupid Questions Tie You Up in a Knot? |
The Art of the Tease |
The Power of Opposites |
Hidden Treasures? |
Are Your Words Cloudy Today? |
Prevent Unintended Consequences |
"No Problem" |
Procrastinate Less in 2022 |