Second Time’s a Charm

This is the second opportunity I’ve had to make a meaningful impact on your business life – and I want to get right down to work. You have a business – new or old, large or small, successful or struggling. I have the methods for making it grow, prosper, and thrive. More importantly, I can…

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An Opportunity to Make a Difference in Your Business Life

You may not know me – but I know YOU. I know that you’re a business owner, entrepreneur, or start-up entrepreneur who’s committed to making the absolute most of your business. That’s why I was so excited when Michael Masterson asked me if I’d be willing to share my business-building and profit-boosting ideas with you…

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The Massive Leverage of Relationships

Over the past three weeks, I’ve explained that marketing, strategy, and business plans are three of the key leverage-producing “drivers” of business growth. Today, let’s look at one more: your relationships. What are the various leverage relationships you have? The business relationships you have, the professional relationships you have, the collegial relationships you have, the…

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The Easiest and Fastest Way to Transform Your Business

You can increase your profitability and competitive superiority dramatically by focusing on the highest-leverage-producing “drivers” of business growth. Last Wednesday, in Message #1261, I talked about one of these key drivers: your marketing. Today, let’s look at another one: your strategy. Because the easiest and fastest way to instantly transform your business results is to…

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The Greatest Upside Leverage Imaginable

Imagine if you could get any activity, any investment, any opportunity, and any effort of people or creative intellectual capital to produce for you — and your business — at a much higher, bigger, better, more profitable yield or result than it otherwise would. You will be able to do exactly that if you know…

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Hopkins in a Nutshell

“Advertising is salesmanship mass produced. No one would bother to use advertising if he could talk to all his prospects face-to-face. But he can’t.” – Morris Hite I think everyone should read Claude Hopkins’ masterpiece, Scientific Advertising, at least three times. I’ll bet you $50 that almost no one reads it more than once –…

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How to Grow Your Business Through Endorsements

A famous business publication interviewed me once and asked me this question: “If every one of your marketing concepts but one was taken away, which would you hold on to at any price?” I didn’t need a second to think about the question. I immediately answered that I’d never give up using endorsements. Why endorsements?…

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How To Find Ideas: The Secret of “Creative Emulation”

“Had Shakespeare listened to the news of Duncan’s death in a tavern …?” – Graham Greene (Our Man in Havana, 1958) Creative emulation, as I define it, is the highly leveraged art of studying and observing all sorts of effective and successful marking techniques and concepts that companies totally outside of your marketing sphere are…

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Direct Mail Will Work for Anybody

People sometimes say, “Jay, I’m not a retailer or a mail order company I don’t see how in the world I could possibly use direct mail.” To which I reply: “Nonsense-you can use it, and you should use it, because if you don’t think you can use it, then chances are your competitors aren’t using…

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