Marketing Insight Guides

Attract interest, and then nail the sale.

Unleash the power of words to sell. It's easier to attract potential customers and persuade them to buy when you understand your audience and respect the nuances of language. Discover how to select tone, details, imagery, numbers, facts, verb tenses, punctuation, pronouns and more to create rapport and inspire an opt-in, an inquiry or a sale. Whether you're an aspiring copywriter, a write-it-yourself business owner or a product manager hunting for a competitive edge, you'll want to devour veteran wordsmith Marcia Yudkin's advice on strategies that sell. Vivid examples and vignettes from research studies illustrate her tips.

Become the master of your business fate. With proper attention to marketing strategy, success is no accident. Time spent planning where you want your business to go and the customers you prefer to serve pays off. Discover also how to earn and keep trust, build a reputation, amplify sales and set your course for profit. Despite today's world of fierce economic, competitive and technical challenges, defining goals and maintaining your intended direction does not require an MBA or high-level number crunching. With both examples and general principles, long-time marketing consultant Marcia Yudkin shows you the key elements for determining your business fate. Learn what to do when complications and uncertainty seem to get in the way.

Get noticed, grow your brand and gain market share.

Happily create customers for keeps. If marketing is the art of creating a customer, smart marketing creates customers who want to stick around and who match the values and approach of the business owner or organization. Discover the assumptions and actions underpinning the ability to build a solid base of customers you enjoy doing business with. Drawing on her 30 years of business successes and mistakes, creative marketing expert Marcia Yudkin explains the principles that help entrepreneurs and companies attract a distinct set of buyers while maintaining the enthusiasm of both sides. According to Yudkin, author of "6 Steps to Free Publicity" and 14 other books, following formulas that worked for someone else doesn't guarantee a successful outcome for you. Instead, cultivate your own business philosophy, tone, persona and pace. Earn attention and loyalty by setting high standards and ignoring those who talk about business as a "numbers game." Discard myths standing in the way of your unique path to success. And cultivate patience, a marketing necessity. Know how to prevent and recover from a business famine, and develop staying power via a core group of supporters.