Shout or conversation. . which works best

Reading an email from a marketing group I belong to reminded me of an advert for Cillit Bang on British TV some time ago. I don’t think it was originally filmed for the UK market because the presenter was shouting at the top of his voice. That has now [...] Continue Reading…

Written by Carol Bentley on March 26, 2009 | No Comments »
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How to keep mailings environmentally friendly. . .

This question came in from Chris Bullard who wanted to know how to encourage his prospects to take his letter seriously whilst asking them to recycle responsibly. . .

Dear Carol,

I’ve recently received a copy of your book ‘I Want to Buy Your Product…” and have been applying your [...] Continue Reading…

Written by Carol Bentley on March 25, 2009 | 7 Comments »
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Postage increases. . . time to plan ahead

For most organisations an increase is usually a fairly consistent percentage rise across the board of services or products supplied.

But when I visited my local post office recently Les, one of our friendly counter staff, handed me a copy of the UK Post Office’s new prices leaflet and [...] Continue Reading…

Written by Carol Bentley on March 24, 2009 | 4 Comments »
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Which works - A4 or A3 size layout

An interesting question from Nigel West highlighted two points about preparing the letter for a mailshot:

Q: “Hi Carol

I’m just in the process of mailing out the sales letter that you helped me with (bit of an understatement).

As ever the mechanics of printing the letter is causing a [...] Continue Reading…

Written by Carol Bentley on March 11, 2009 | 2 Comments »
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Business building formula

I enjoyed Jonathan Jay’s weekend seminar. I met a lot of motivated, success-hungry business owners and the seminar content certainly stimulated me into action - hence the delay in sharing with you until today; I’ve been a bit busy since I got back. ;)

Jonathan’s anatomy of a sales letter [...] Continue Reading…

Written by Carol Bentley on March 10, 2009 | 3 Comments »
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Discovering…

We never stop learning. I know… it is a cliché but it happens to be one that I believe in and actively follow.

If you’ve been following my blog for a while you’ll know that I love discovering anything about marketing, copywriting and all things related. One of [...] Continue Reading…

Written by Carol Bentley on March 6, 2009 | 4 Comments »
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