Write Well to Sell Big

In the age of e-mail and instant communication, great sales copy is indispensable to closing a deal. But too many sales letters end up in the junk file or the wastebasket. In this new edition of his top-selling book, author Dan Kennedy explains why some sales letters work and most don't. And he shows how to write copy that any business can use.

Among other things, he provides:

• Completely updated text and examples
• Great headline formulas
• New exercises to spark creativity
• The best way to use...

For the next 20 years, roughly 10,000 citizens will hit medicare eligibility each and every day. Understanding their attitudes, interests, spending patterns, buying preferences and the emerging opportunities for profiting by targeted development and marketing of products and services to them is vital to the forward thinking entrepreneur and marketing executive. There is no product, service, industry or profession category unaffected by this demographic sea-change. The leading-edge boomer and senior population quietly controls the majority of the deiscretionary spending and investing...

Fact: More commerce and wealth is created by direct mail than by any other media (true before the internet and true now)
Reported in 2013 as the marketing channel that "delivers the best ROI for customer acquisition and retention" by Target Marketing's Seventh Annual Media Usage Forecast survey of B2C, direct mail is surprisingly outdated and under-represented on the marketing bookshelves for small business owners -- authors Simpson and Kennedy change that. Millionaire-maker Dan S. Kennedy and direct mail marketing specialist Craig Simpson urge small business owners to drive...

Millionaire maker Dan S. Kennedy, joined by successful franchisors Forrest Walden and Jim Cavale, debunk the branding lies and myths shared by small business owners and entrepreneurs and deliver a heavy dose of reality--YOUR BRAND SHOULD BE A HAPPY, FREE BY-PRODUCT OF DIRECT MARKETING--NOT PURCHASED OUTRIGHT.

Kennedy and his co-authors don't offer a strategy for creating a company logo, writing a slogan or issuing a press release. You won't learn how to follow in the footsteps of big brand advertisers (and thus, brand-build your business into bankruptcy). This book isn't about buying...

What does it "really" take to get productivity from people and, by doing so, maximum profits for your business?
With a nod to Jeff Bezos, Steve Jobs, Walt Disney, and other ruthless yet highly successful managers, Dan S. Kennedy delivers the answer. In this new edition, Kennedy expands on his proven (if radical) strategies to get accountability, profitability, and productivity from employees.
In his traditional "No B.S." style, Kennedy kicks traditional leadership and management ideas squarely in the teeth with a realistic, straightforward assessment of the real relationship between...

FACT: NOTHING IS COSTLIER OR MORE DIFFICULT THAN GETTING A NEW CUSTOMER.
Business owners agree. "The referred customer is far superior to the one brought in by cold advertising." Yet most business owners will invest more money to find new customers than getting referrals from current, happy customers.
Millionaire maker Dan S. Kennedy and customer retention expert Shaun Buck dare you
to stop chasing new customers and keep an iron cage around the ones you already have.
Kennedy and Buck present a systematic approach to help you keep, cultivate, and
multiply customers so that your...