My primary research method is to e-mail direct marketers I know who consistently achieve superior response rates and ask them how they do it. My secondary research is a careful study of the few dozen marketing and psychology books every direct marketer should read, to extract the one or two best gems from each (I’ll give you a quick round-up of the best of these in a future column or two).
Because I may never finish or publish The Persuasion Manifesto, but am getting such good stuff from my e-mail queries, I’m going to reprint some of the best persuasion techniques I’ve collected in this column. So here goes with the first installment:
- The “so what” test. After you write yo...(register to read more)
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Great column, Bob. The experts’ wisdom is pretty familiar, but it never hurts to get a brief refresher. Hope you’ll continue these tips in future columns.
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