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6 Reasons Facebook Hasn’t Yet Killed Direct Mail

Posted on: March 4, 2016 /
Categories: Auction Marketing, Direct Mail

Facebook is the biggest innovation in advertising ever. I truly believe that and am thankful for the times it bails me out of tough strategy situations with my clients. While Facebook collects a mind-boggling amount of data about its users, there are still audiences it can’t reach that direct mail can.

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157: How Auctioneers Can Be Like Presidential Candidates

Posted on: March 2, 2016 /
Categories: Auction Marketing

We can sell “high risk, high reward” with integrity. We can sell the time value of money with honor. We can sell superlative results with statistical evidence of our prowess. But let’s stop selling one thing to our sellers and another thing to our buyers.

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156: 8 Ways to Suggest Price in Auction Advertising

Posted on: February 24, 2016 /
Categories: Auction Marketing

Advertising a price can turn bargain seekers away from our auction or create a bid ceiling that conflicts with our fiduciary responsibility to our sellers. So, how do we as auction marketers leverage price to sell our assets? Contrast. We can advertise what is known against the unknown hammer price.

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2 Reasons Why You Shouldn’t Use “Auction” in Your Headlines

Posted on: February 10, 2016 /
Categories: Auction Marketing

Our advertising headlines and subject lines and supporting text needs to focus on the assets being sold. While the marketing vehicle of an auction does connote important information the buyer needs to know, that buyer doesn’t care about those realities until they want what’s being sold.

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154: Why Businesses Advertise Backwards

Posted on: February 3, 2016 /
Categories: Auction Marketing

Start with the audience and work backwards. If you’re going to gamble, improve your odds. Work to find the valuable few instead of the risky many. No matter how many people see your advertising media, you want the ones who do interact with it (1) to relate to the content and (2) to be impressed.

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153: Are You Throwing Away Income on Facebook?

Posted on: January 27, 2016 /
Categories: Auction Marketing, Branding

This doesn’t mean that we abandon unpopular opinions or that we avoid sharing them. It just means that we express them differently. Proselytizing or personal growth is more likely within the contexts of face-to-face conversations, book club discussions, thoughtful letters, careful essays, well-researched & sourced infographics, etc. Raise a hand if a Facebook, Twitter, or Instagram post has ever changed your political stance on anything. If they’ve never worked on us, what hubris or ignorance does it take to assume they’ll sway others?

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152: How Vacation Souvenirs Sabotage Your Direct Mail Strategy

Posted on: January 13, 2016 /
Categories: Auction Marketing, Design, Direct Mail

In practice, the mailer panel should be the flashy side. It should be the panel with the big picture and the short headline. Everything else should fall to the reverse side or to our website. Anybody not interested by our primary “sizzle” photo and intrinsic message isn’t a likely buyer or client. Anyone interested but not motivated to flip the card over or go to our website isn’t a qualified prospect, either.

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