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Business Marketing is Joe Sugarman's master piece . We were rivileged enough to attend an exclusive retreat with him some 20 years ago. You see, Joe did not miss a trick. He turned his mail order success into an opportunity together to share his knowledge with other direct marketers. He provided a weeklong program, which he offered at his Wisconsin estate. He told his story and provided his students with an intimate perspective on his trials and tribulations.

After the prospect category comes the customer category. It is obvious what a customer is, but some companies make the mistake of not subclassifying customers as well as prospects. Some companies do not pay a lot of attention to former customers, but they should. It makes good marketing sense to segregate these customers on a database for special treatment.

 

And just one other senior person as a final arbiter. Instead of asking people pay their subscriptions immediately, we suggested they send us a post-dated banker's order, so they could try the publication for three months without risk. (And very salIt is worth the investment to find .out why they have not purchased for some time, and what the company can do about it to recapture the customer. Because the cost of acquiring a customer is so much higher than the cost of keeping a customer, former customers can bring value back to a company if they can be recaptured at a lower cost.

 

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A product's advantages, however, go one step further. Advantages speak to the product in use. What does the product really do? How does it work? What results does it achieve for the user? Advantages begin to position the product in the mind of the prospect or customer as something that may or may not be desirable for purchase.

Finally, a product's benefits focus on what the product does for the prospect or customer. How will the product make life better, easier, richer for the product's user? Why should the prospect or customer consider this product over another and, ultimately, purchase it?

Can they use their credit cards? Can they order on the phone? Can they try the product free? Do you offer easy terms? Direct marketers understand that basically, people are people when it comes to universal needs, desires, likes and dislikes. In his classic book
Successful Direct Marketing Methods,' Bob Stone includes a list of "basic human wants" ,things that humans like (making money, saving time, achieving comfort, etc.) and do not like (criticism, pain, loss of money, etc.).

 

These same basic human needs translate well into the business-to-business world. Humans in the business world like to be acknowledged for their hard work. They do not like to be singled out when something goes wrong in their job. They like to make money. They do not want to be fired. Review Stone's entire list—you will find it applies to business-to-business direct marketing.

 

In fact, we can apply the lessons of consumer direct marketing to business-to-business direct marketing in other ways. Virtually every direct marketing concept in existence has been passed down, adapted, and reused. (Remember the old Underwood ad!) Free trials, money back guarantees, and product demonstrations came out of that ancient; marketing world and are now accepted direct marketing practices. You can be sure if you see something repeated in direct marketing that it is working.

 

It pays to keep your eyes open for direct marketing trends all around you.

 

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