Would you blow your entire annual marketing budget on just one ad to run once during the Superbowl?
Of course you wouldn’t. You know that people seeing your message just once wouldn’t be enough.
Then why do we tend to spend our time and dollars on single-shot marketing, rather than repeated messages?
The answer is… most folks just don’t know any better. Or, perhaps it seems boring to repeat your message over and over and over and over.
But the truth is, your fortune is in the follow up!
This past weekend I went to hear direct marketing master Bill Glazer (my marketing mentor who runs Glazer-Kennedy Inner Circle (along with Dan Kennedy) speak at a conference here in Los Angeles. During his talk, he shared with the audience how he spent the last few decades of his life running Baltimore’s #1 retail men’s clothing store, Gage Menswear, along with his late father.
Bill talked about one of his first direct mail campaigns, and how during the planning stages he announced to his dad that they were going to mail a special promotional offer to the same list not once, not twice, but three times. His father was...