Category Archives: Sales & Marketing

Inexpensive Tools to Help Grow Your Sales or Business—Introducing AppSumo

Posted on August 29, 2023 by Rod Schwartz

If you’re an entrepreneurial salesperson, marketer, or business operator, you’re going to love this! AppSumo is a clearinghouse for a ton of inexpensive and highly useful digital tools for sales and marketing, to help you expand your effectiveness! Here are 5 … Continue reading →

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Ask the Wizards – Marketing Advice from the Wizard of Ads® and partners

Posted on April 20, 2020 by Rod Schwartz

Business owners and radio marketing executives get answers to their questions on marketing in a COVID-19 world by Roy H. Williams (the Wizard of Ads®) Ryan Deiss (founder of DigitalMarketer.com), and Daniel Whittington (Chancellor of Wizard Academy). Send your questions … Continue reading →

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Ask the Wizard of Ads® – Free Now!

Posted on April 1, 2020 by Rod Schwartz

Roy H. Williams, the Wizard of Ads®, and Wizard Academy Chancellor, Daniel Whittington, recently announced that they will be offering weekly one-hour videos, in which they answer advertising and business questions submitted to them by email. It’s a generous offer … Continue reading →

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What Businesses Need From Local Radio Right Now

Posted on March 24, 2020 by Rod Schwartz

What do businesses, especially those closed due to the COVID-19 pandemic,  need from their local radio stations right now?  A relevant advertising message that addresses the new reality of closures, quarantines, business not-as-usual.  At minimum, the information businesses need to … Continue reading →

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Seeing With Your Ears

Posted on October 22, 2018 by Rod Schwartz

His canvas was our minds. His paintbrush, words. And the pictures he painted so vividly made us see. They made us think.  And they made us buy – whatever he was selling. Paul Harvey was the master of spoken-word communication. His choice … Continue reading →

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“How Often Should My Message Be Repeated?”

Posted on July 30, 2018 by Rod Schwartz

“Half the money I spend on advertising is wasted; the trouble is I don’t know which half.”  Wanamaker’s famous quote on advertising has been widely disseminated. For some, it has inspired bold risk-taking and marketing breakthroughs; “nothing ventured, nothing gained.” … Continue reading →

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Conversations in Advertising: Are You a Participant or an Eavesdropper?

Posted on July 19, 2018 by Rod Schwartz

By Photos by Bertilvidet, European People’s Party, Republican Conference of the United States House of Representatives. Collage/graphic by Didia [CC BY-SA 4.0 (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0)%5D, via Wikimedia Commons Whether you’re a business trying to engage consumers or a political candidate wooing voters, … Continue reading →

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Advertising Lessons from 1923 and 1927

Posted on April 24, 2018 by Rod Schwartz

He is “…hopelessly out of date, and amazingly current. He was the outstanding copywriter and strategist of his time; he made $100,000 a year and more writing advertising when that kind of money was important even to the U.S. Treasury.” … Continue reading →

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How to Amplify Your Word-of-Mouth (Guaranteed)

Posted on March 28, 2018 by Rod Schwartz

You prize good word-of-mouth don’t you? We all do. Word-of-mouth may not create business, but it helps create a preference for your business or brand in the heart of the hearer. Good radio advertising can have the same effect, only multiplied and amplified. … Continue reading →

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A Modest Proposal for Radio

Posted on October 18, 2017 by Rod Schwartz

 Do Most Radio Ads Suck? Jeff Sexton is an ad writer, and a damn good one. He occasionally teaches ad writing at Wizard Academy and is himself one of the Wizard of Ads® Partners. I subscribe to Jeff’s blog and … Continue reading →

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