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When Hokey Marketing Works to Grow Your Business…

Author: Charlie Cook   |   July 25th, 2006

“Isn’t the marketing copy too hokey? I can see that it might work for small businesses but will it work to attract and convince more sophisticated marketing managers?” – Mark

It’s true you don’t want your business marketing to be contrived or clearly not genuine. That will kill your chances of getting attention from any of your prospects.

What you do want to do is make a connection with your business prospects, get them thinking about the problems you solve and how much better off they’d be with the product or service your marketing.

One of the best ways to get your prospects’ attention and their interest is to tell a story about your clients, what they wanted to achieve, what you did for them and the results. Make it personal and interesting. Hokey? Maybe but it beats the typical boring business marketing that doesn’t get results.
– Charlie Cook
Small Business Marketing Guru Providing Results For Small and Large Companies

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