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    Business owners and managers are busier than ever. As their businesses grow and become more complex, they find that they don’t have the time to be all things to all people. In the early stages of a business, the owner or manager waits on customers, does the buying, collects past due accounts, supervises just about everyone on staff and may even stay late to stuff the monthly statements.At each stage of business growth, managers must muster the discipline to delegate more and personally perform fewer and f
    omer.

    To make your marketing great so it consistently generates high quality leads, here is a list of the differences between great marketing and terrible marketing:

    1. Great marketing includes an attention-grabbing headline that calls out to the target market and makes a benefit-b

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    As a marketing consultant and copywriter, I see horrible marketing everyday. The most common mistake I see is what I call, "me too marketing".

    "Me too marketing" is when a business creates a marketing piece (advertisement, brochure, sales letter, website, etc.) that looks and reads like an exact copy of their competition’s marketing. Instead of demonstrating why their product or service is unique and offers outstanding benefits, they say exactly what their competition says.

    For proof of "me too marketing", go to your phone book and look at advertising in almost any category. You can basically exchange the company names in the ads and the ads are identical. Nearly everybody is using the same dull clich?s such as, "Our customers are #1", "Serving your needs for xx years", "Family owned", "Best Service", "Friendly Service", "Great Selection", etc. This kind of advertising is SO BORING and overused. That is why it produces such horrible results. If you want to have marketing that generates a lot of quality leads and puts you ahead of your competition, you need to be different and prove why your product or services offers the best benefits to your customer.

    To make your marketing great so it consistently generates high quality leads, here is a list of the differences between great marketing and terrible marketing:

    1. Great marketing includes an attention-grabbing headline that calls out to the target market and makes a benefit-ba

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    an exact copy of their competition’s marketing. Instead of demonstrating why their product or service is unique and offers outstanding benefits, they say exactly what their competition says.

    For proof of "me too marketing", go to your phone book and look at advertising in almost any category. You can basically exchange the company names in the ads and the ads are identical. Nearly everybody is using the same dull clich?s such as, "Our customers are #1", "Serving your needs for xx years", "Family owned", "Best Service", "Friendly Service", "Great Selection", etc. This kind of advertising is SO BORING and overused. That is why it produces such horrible results. If you want to have marketing that generates a lot of quality leads and puts you ahead of your competition, you need to be different and prove why your product or services offers the best benefits to your customer.

    To make your marketing great so it consistently generates high quality leads, here is a list of the differences between great marketing and terrible marketing:

    1. Great marketing includes an attention-grabbing headline that calls out to the target market and makes a benefit-b

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    gory. You can basically exchange the company names in the ads and the ads are identical. Nearly everybody is using the same dull clich?s such as, "Our customers are #1", "Serving your needs for xx years", "Family owned", "Best Service", "Friendly Service", "Great Selection", etc. This kind of advertising is SO BORING and overused. That is why it produces such horrible results. If you want to have marketing that generates a lot of quality leads and puts you ahead of your competition, you need to be different and prove why your product or services offers the best benefits to your customer.

    To make your marketing great so it consistently generates high quality leads, here is a list of the differences between great marketing and terrible marketing:

    1. Great marketing includes an attention-grabbing headline that calls out to the target market and makes a benefit-b

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    dvertising is SO BORING and overused. That is why it produces such horrible results. If you want to have marketing that generates a lot of quality leads and puts you ahead of your competition, you need to be different and prove why your product or services offers the best benefits to your customer.

    To make your marketing great so it consistently generates high quality leads, here is a list of the differences between great marketing and terrible marketing:

    1. Great marketing includes an attention-grabbing headline that calls out to the target market and makes a benefit-b

    Technomanagement: A Deadly Mix of Bureaucracy and Technology
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    omer.

    To make your marketing great so it consistently generates high quality leads, here is a list of the differences between great marketing and terrible marketing:

    1. Great marketing includes an attention-grabbing headline that calls out to the target market and makes a benefit-based promise. Bad marketing does not include a headline and hopes that the reader will find the graphics interesting enough to read the marketing piece. Big mistake!

    2. Great Marketing focuses on a powerful benefits-based sales message and promise. Bad marketing focuses on aesthetic graphic design and being "cute and creative" and using as little sales text as possible. A great sales message is a message that promises a specific result. For example, "If our skin care product does not make your face look 10 years younger in 30-days or less, we’ll give you a 110% refund!"

    3. Great marketing offers quantitative proof of why a product or service is better than the competition. Bad marketing just says, "we are the best." For examples of how to show proof that your product is better than the competition, your marketing should make statements that you can prove such as, your widget lasts 3.7 times longer, it costs 27% less, our company offers a 90-day 100% money-back guarantee while our competitors offer no guarantee, our widget is guaranteed to last 5 years or we will replace it for free, while our competition only offers a 6-month replacement guarantee,

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