Although Yellow Pages advertising should be a major profit-building business marketing strategy for many law firms, the harsh reality is that 99% of ads simply don't work. This book will provide you with the information you need to create effective, powerful Yellow Pages ads and drive your client development programs forward. You'll find information on identifying and focusing on your target market, as well as how to plan and design the perfect ad that not only reaches potential clients, but motivates them to call. Book jacket.

Twenty-first century tools and tactics to get the word out You want to get the word out to buyers about all the great things your business has to offer. Too bad a big-bucks marketing campaign just isn't in your budget right now. The Complete Idiot's Guide® to Target Marketing is full of clever, practical, and easy-to-use strategies to help you get your message out to the right people, at the right time, and in the right place. You'll learn: • Five easy steps to identify the most lucrative niche markets • Tech-savvy tips on using online surveys and other e-tools to identify your customers' needs • Powerful pointers on viral marketing, blogging, webinars, and other web marketing ideas • Highly-effective and low-budget advertising strategies and customer retention techniques

This book shows you how to create more powerful Yellow Pages advertising and attract new business to your practice by creating advertising that gets attention, and holds attention.

The completely revised and updated third edtion of the classic "bible on how to advertise in the Yellow Pages." The best and latest answers to all the questions telephone directory advertisers advertisers ask; and to those they never ask but should. As TIME said, "Barry Maher has helped thousands of small businesses get the most effective and cost-effective yellow pages advertising possible."How much should you be spending? In which directories? What kind of ads should you have and how big should those ads be? In what headings? How can you save money without hurting response? How important are Internet Yellow Pages and local search engines? Plus Maher provides a step by step program for designing ads that get the call. Even when surrounded by pages of other ads all selling the same thing.

Yet, most small business owners have little or no marketing background and are intimidated by the thought of putting a plan to paper. This step-by-step guide takes the mystery out of marketing and shows reader how to test the market, determine buying trends and build customer loyalty.