18 Lessons To Improve Your Outrageous Advertising (2 of 2)
Jan 17, 2025
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In this discussion, Bill Glazer, a direct response marketing expert and longtime collaborator of Dan Kennedy, shares the final lessons for mastering outrageous advertising. He highlights the power of testimonials and personalized marketing, revealing how they enhance credibility and overcome objections. Bill also unveils innovative strategies, like creative direct mail and whimsical ads, to captivate audiences. Plus, he offers insights from unique marketing tactics in various industries, ensuring valuable takeaways for any business!
Personalization in advertising, such as using a recipient's name, can increase response rates by an average of 30%.
Incorporating detailed testimonials from satisfied clients can enhance credibility and response rates by addressing consumer objections directly.
Deep dives
The Power of Personalization
Personalization is a vital strategy in advertising that significantly boosts customer response rates. When marketers use a person’s name in communications, it creates a sense of direct engagement and relevance, making recipients feel the message was crafted specifically for them. A practical example shared involved a direct mail campaign that featured the recipient's name on the envelope, which led to a substantial increase in responses compared to generic messaging. Research indicates that incorporating personalization techniques can lead to an average increase of 30% in marketing response rates.
The Influence of Testimonials
Testimonials play a crucial role in enhancing the credibility of marketing messages since consumers tend to trust the opinions of others far more than marketing claims made by businesses themselves. Effective use of testimonials involves addressing potential consumer objections through specific feedback from satisfied clients, which can be presented in various marketing pieces. An example highlighted a case where adding testimonials to an advertisement led to a 31% increase in response rates, showcasing their impact on consumer behavior. Using full names and detailed descriptions in testimonials can further bolster trust and invite potential customers to engage with a business.
Utilizing Premiums for Increased Engagement
Offering premiums, or free gifts, is an effective tactic to spur consumer response to marketing campaigns. When a premium is perceived to have a higher value than its actual cost, it can dramatically increase customer engagement; for instance, a small $2 item like designer socks tripled response rates in a promotional campaign. Another successful strategy involved sending a mailgram from Western Union that promised a $20 umbrella, creating intrigue and excitement. Overall, the use of engaging premiums not only increases participation in campaigns but also enhances the overall marketing experience for customers.
The Strategy of Sequential Mailing
Sequential mailing is a powerful marketing strategy that involves sending multiple communications to the same audience to maximize engagement and response rates. This tactic allows businesses to build a narrative or push a specific offer over time, which can result in significantly higher outcomes compared to a single communication. For instance, a multi-step campaign for a bank employed various creative concepts like sending a bank bag, followed by a letter featuring shredded money, and ultimately a pop-up envelope, which collectively led to more than tripling the response and new deposits in six weeks. Implementing sequential mailing can transform customer outreach and reinforces the message over time, making it difficult for the audience to ignore.
In part two of this two-part episode Bill Glazer, longtime student turned business partner of Dan Kennedy, reveals the remaining 9 lessons of "outrageous advertising", using a variety of real examples from his successful menswear business and other incredibly successful businesses. (His lesson on testimonials is especially thorough.)
Whether you've been needing extra guidance on how to better incorporate testimonials or up your "swipe and deploy" game, Bill's 18 lessons will definitely help, no matter what business you're in! Be sure to check out part one first for the first 9 lessons!