Archive for the ‘Controls’ Category

49-Point Checklist for Beating Your Control

OPEN LETTER

What do you need to know to beat your control? The answers to this list of questions will provide a good start when working with outside creatives. Or—and especially—if you attempt to do it yourself.

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What Now? What Next?

OPEN LETTER

Costs are up. Response is down. Circulation is falling. Lists are exhausted. Offers are fatigued. Rules are changing. Subscribers are wary. Has there ever been a better time for new ideas in circulation? Here are some things you can do now to survive the tough times so you can positively thrive when — if ever — the going gets good.

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‘Let’s do whatever The Wall Street Journal is doing’

Here’s the latest in my mail from The Wall Street Journal. Ever since “two young men graduated from the same college,” whatever The Journal mails has been the avatar of subscription promotions. As they say, if you’re going to steal, steal smart.

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113 Certainties for Circulation Success

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Here’s a list of tips, techniques, and truths to help you create winning subscription promotions. Do you know them all? Know a few more I should add? Reply before midnight.

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