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Take the Sting Out of Marketing

By Kim Sheehan   |   August 25, 2009

beeHave you ever seen the musical Jesus Christ Superstar? Remember that song, “What’s the Buzz?”  I think that’s when the term buzz first became an important part of popular culture.

Buzz is simply conversations about your business: conversations between you and a customer, among customers, and between customers and non-customers. And every business – large or small, online or offline – wants buzz.

How do you create buzz? Read More »


Is Your Marketing All Wet?

By Charlie Cook   |   August 21, 2009

Quick before the summer ends, unkink the hose, get leads flowing into your pipeline and power up your marketing. And let me know your thoughts on this video. Or if you think you have a great idea for a funny video ad about small business marketing I can use, add a comment and let me know how to contact you.
– Charlie


Is Social Media Marketing A Big Fat Waste of Time?

By Charlie Cook   |   August 21, 2009

I’ve got a doghound_dog_big who spends most of the day chasing squirrels, but he’s yet to actually catch one and you might be wondering if social media marketing is the same. Can Twitter, Facebook, LinkedIn, Digg and all those social media sites actually make you a dime?

The answer is Read More »


Why Isn’t Your Web Site Making More?

By Brian Tracy   |   August 17, 2009

Do you have a website?

Did you hire a web designer to build it or spend long hours putting in up yourself? Have you been struggling to get more traffic to your site by improving your search engine listings or spending money on pay-per-click advertising?

Now that you’ve put all that time and money… Read More »


Which Are The Best Viral Free Ebooks Ever?

By Charlie Cook   |   July 22, 2009

I’m working on a report mapping out the proven formula for free viral ebooks that actually work to get attention and business.

If you have an example you’ve written or someone else wrote that has been downloaded at least 25,000 times, please make a comment with it’s title and the download link.

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Top 101 Internet Marketers

By Charlie Cook   |   July 20, 2009

I was just named to Ryan Lee’s top 101 Internet Marketers on Internet marketing. I am among the ranks of Internet marketing experts like Yanik Silver, Russell Brunson, Armand Morin, Ryan Deiss, Jay Abraham and Mark Joyner.

Check it out >>

– Charlie

P.S. Want to learn how I became an Internet marketing expert?

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Top Gainer In Internet Marketing

By Charlie Cook   |   May 26, 2009

It’s always nice to be recognized. This week Gurudaq ranked MarketingForSuccess.com as the top Internet marketing gainer putting us in the company of greats like Mark Joyner.

Want to know how I did it? Use this link >>

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The #1 Copywriting Secret To Increase Sales

By Charlie Cook   |   May 12, 2009

What’s the “one thing” you can do to generate more interest and more sales from your web marketing? What’s the “one thing” that every successful entrepreneur and small business owner needs to do to make more money?

Getting the attention of your prospects is the obvious answer. If people ignore your ads, your mailings or your ezines you’re never going to make as many sales as you want.  The problem is not what to do but how to do it.

Discover the top copywriting tactic proven to trigger more sales. If you haven’t done so already, make sure to register in the next few minutes.

On Thursday May 14 at 4 p.m. EDT Dan Lok, the sales conversion expert and author of ‘Turn Words Into Cash,’ and I will be sharing top copywriting and web marketing tactics with you.

When you register for the TeleSeminar you’ll receive a FREE COPY of my latest ebook – ‘The 22 Hot Buttons That Get People to Buy.’

Only a few spots left. Use this link to register immediately before the doors close >>

-Charlie

P.S. Unavailable on May 14?  You can still get my 50-page ebook, ‘The 22 Hot Buttons That Get People to Buy’ – FREE. Just register today and download it in minutes – no cost, no obligation.

Discover how easy it is to sell more >>

P.P.S. What did Marc have to say about Charlie’s last TeleSeminar?

“Charlie makes every minute count.  When the hour was over, I had a dozen different strategies for connecting with prospects and turning them into my customers.  I put two of them into practice that same day and saw results immediately.”
Marc Atherton, The Marketer’s Marketer

Register in the next few minutes before all the spaces are gone and the TeleSeminar is closed. >>

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The #1 Way To Make More In Any Economy

By Charlie Cook   |   May 5, 2009

REGISTER for this one-time only FREE TeleSeminar with Copywriting expert Dan Lok now >>

Sign-up today and receive my FREE 50 page ebook, “The 22 Hot Buttons That Get People To Buy” just for registering!

How to Increase Your Profits In ANY Economy

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“Over the last 12 months, every time we take out an ad, send out a mailing we seem to get a lower and lower response rate. The same is true with our website, it just doesn’t seem to be pulling in new clients.

I know the economy stinks, but that’s not my style to try and look for something or someone to blame. What can I do to get more sales this year?
– Arthur Petersen, KY
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Over the years you’ve worked hard to build your small business.  What can you do now to make sure the current downturn doesn’t steal your profits and that instead you keep new sales coming in and keep growing?

Nine years ago, I wrote my first sales page which I posted on my website. I looked around at the type of sales pages my competitors were using and tried to use the same approach.

The result? Even weeks later sales were barely trickling in.

I knew it wasn’t my product and I was getting plenty of traffic to the page – so what was it I was doing wrong?

I made the same mistake that most small business owners make. Even though I’d put words on the page, they didn’t grab my prospects’ attention, they didn’t work to get them reading and they didn’t work to generate a flood of sales.

Ever take out an ad, send out a mailing put up a web sales page and find yourself in the same situation?  Even with plenty of exposure you get hardly any sales?

What’s the solution? Can you generate 5-10 times as much interest and sales? Can you make your marketing strategies work to get people to contact you and buy from you? And most importantly, can you light a fire under them so your prospects are motivated to make a purchase TODAY?

The answer is YES!

Find out the simple steps to take to get all the prospects and sales you can handle >>

After failing so miserably at writing copy that sells when I first started out, I did a lot of research and I sought out the best advice I could find. Eventually I hired one of the top copywriters on the planet as my mentor.

Thanks to consistent application of a few simple marketing strategies, I now enjoy some of the highest conversion rates in the industry. Translated into English that means, the ads, the sales pages and the direct mail pieces I write translate directly into a huge number of sales and amazing profits.

In business one of the keys to success is generating at least 10 to 20 dollars for each dollar you spend on marketing. When you do, when you spend a dollar on an ad and it brings in 20 or more it’s easy to be profitable.

How can you do this? How can you get your ads, mailings, websites ezines, etc. working so they bring in a flood of sales even in this economy?

Find the answer in this FREE Copywriting TeleSeminar >>

Stop thinking about what you’re to sell and start thinking about what your prospects are buying!

This is the number one mistake every small business owner makes. Your messages need to focus on what your prospects are looking for, not what you’re selling…

Prospects want to know ‘What’s in it for ME?’

Answer that question by talking about the BENEFITS of your product or service, not the FEATURES.

Volvo commercials don’t advertise that the car frame is made of high-quality metal, or its design was years in the making.  They say that your family will be safe in their car.

A print ad for Viagra doesn’t show the chemical compound of the little blue pill.  It shows a man and a woman holding hands on their way to an intimate moment.

Benefits, not features are what matter. Or more precisely: the benefits of the features.

Is your copy filled with the words ‘I’ and ‘my’?  Does it have phrases like:  ‘I can get you a better mortgage rate’ or ‘My system took me a long time to develop.’

That’s all about YOU.  To sell more you need to make it all about your prospect. It’s a lot more powerful to say ‘You can lower your mortgage rate and save money with my help’ and ‘You can save time and enjoy success sooner using the system I spent years to develop.’

Interested in making your ads, your mailings and your website convert visitors into profits?

Sign up for the one-time Free Copywriting TeleSeminar >>
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Any time you’re communicating with prospects…in sales letters, print ads, web site copy, or even your on-hold message, focus on the three things that tell them ‘This is all about You’. Focus on:

1. The NEEDS They Have – ‘Do You Want Your Lawn to Be Lush and Green?’ or ‘Your back pain doesn’t have to hold you back’ or ‘You’ve come to the right place to get out of debt.

2. The BENEFITS You Provide – ‘You Won’t Have to Break Your Back Feeding and Seeding’ or ‘Your flexibility and comfort will improve instantly’ or ‘You can pay off all your bills in 60 days or less.

3. The FEATURES That Allow You to Provide the Benefits – ‘Our lawn product uses a ‘secret’ seed that gives you months of care-free enjoyment’ or ‘I am a licensed chiropractor, so you’re in good hands’ or ‘The creators of our system all come from the credit card industry so they know exactly what you need to do”

Notice that all the features still talk about ‘you.’

– Charlie

P.S. When your marketing copy is working it’s like you’ve switched the traffic light from red to green. Sales come pouring in. To get you started, I’m giving away a 50 page FREE ebook that includes, “The 22 Hot Buttons That Get People To Buy.”

To claim your copy register for the Free ‘Instant Cash Copy’ TeleSeminar before it fills up.

Start Here >>

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How Embarrassing Is That?

By Charlie Cook   |   April 7, 2009

This past weekend I was in the attic sorting through piles of stuff. I’m convinced that kids’ toys, sleeping bags, broken chairs and rusty fans have been sneaking up there in the middle of the night for years now.

I was up in the attic because we’re renovating a bathroom and have a dumpster in our driveway. I could have cleaned out the attic in the past, but having the dumpster right there has made it so much more appealing.

One of the items consigned to the dumpster was a baby carriage that someone gave us when our daughter was born that they had in their attic. Twenty-five years later, we still had this big honking, Mary Poppins-type perambulator taking up space. It didn’t have any antique or sentimental value. We took it to Goodwill and even they didn’t want it. Back to the dumpster.

How embarrassing is that?

Have you ever kept something around that was out-of-date, thinking it might be useful again someday, when it really should have been thrown out?

How about your website marketing?

It’s probably only a few years old, but is it outdated or just plain not working? Is it time to figure what you really need, and what you don’t?

Ready to clean up your website marketing so it brings in more profits? Start here >>

95% of existing web sites were built using obsolete models. People re-created their sales brochures online, or put up sites so they’d have “a web presence” or were convinced that “if we build it, they will come.” If sites like these have any significant traffic at all, they aren’t working to generate leads and close sales. They’re website marketing is a failure.

Is your site one of these?

Ready to fix your website marketing so it actually brings in a steady stream of qualified leads and/or sales?

While I don’t want to get anywhere near your attic, and in fact I could still use some help with mine, I can show you how to clean up your website marketing so you can grow your business this year.

Discover the fastest way to ramp up your website marketing >>

Look at your sales figures and site stats and answer these questions:

1. Does my site attract a steady stream of visitors?
2. Do I have a system for increasing traffic to my site?
3. Are at least 10% of the visitors to my site contacting me or buying from me?
4. Do I have a simple process in place for converting visitors into paying clients?
5. Is my site optimized to maximize the value of each visitor and customer?

If you answered NO to any of the above questions, it’s time to clean up your website marketing and put it to work to increase your profits. Don’t wait until it’s as useless as my daughter’s baby carriage. Do it now.

With a few changes to your website marketing, you could be one of the few business owners who will increase their online profits this year.

Discover how to grow your business online this year >>

– Charlie

P.S. Don’t let a website marketing strategy that isn’t working sit there collecting dust and costing you money. Spring clean your website marketing and start bringing in more profits.

I’m continually amazed at how many people put up with a website that doesn’t bring in leads and sales. You’re too smart to do that. You’re one of the few who are looking to optimize your website’s performance so you can make more.

Ready to bring in more profits with your website marketing? >>

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