Joseph Sugarman had a major impact on direct marketing & received the highest honors in this field. Having created many businesses in his successful 25-year career, Sugarman has been credited with introducing everything from toll-free order taking to the new wave of consumer electronics. MARKETING SECRETS OF A MAIL ORDER MAVERICK is a compilation of many of the techniques he created & the results he experienced while selling thousands of different products to millions of people. Lessons include how to find a winning product, secrets for a successful layout, how to avoid typefaces that hurt response, how to buy media for less, testing a product's potential & hundreds of other insights that will guide the reader to understanding what works & what doesn't. The lessons are alternated with entertaining & enlightening marketing stories from Sugarman's vast personal experience. Sugarman's insights will be helpful to anybody in business - from the advertising director of a large corporation to the individual starting his or her own business. Cover quotes from Vice President Albert Gore, Jack Canfield, & national magazines.

Fact: More commerce and wealth is created by direct mail than by any other media (true before the internet and true now) Reported in 2013 as the marketing channel that "delivers the best ROI for customer acquisition and retention" by Target Marketing’s Seventh Annual Media Usage Forecast survey of B2C, direct mail is surprisingly outdated and under-represented on the marketing bookshelves for small business owners — authors Simpson and Kennedy change that. Millionaire-maker Dan S. Kennedy and direct mail marketing specialist Craig Simpson urge small business owners to drive the momentum built via social media and other marketing avenues into the mailboxes of their target consumers. Unlike other direct mail marketing books on the shelf that specialize in one aspect of preparing a campaign such as copywriting or design, this comprehensive solution covers all — the organizational, technical, and creative including designing, budgeting, tracking, and assessing effectiveness. Also covered is how direct mail can be used in today's online marketing funnels. Benefiting from the authors' combined 30 years in direct marketing, business owners are given the guidelines for what works and what doesn’t, illustrated by real-life business campaigns that show step-by-step how to build a results-producing promotional campaign.

Recounts the story of one of America's greatest mail-order geniuses, and points out by his example the most valuable lessons for aspiring entrepreneurs. Included here are detailed explanations of his famous success stories, such as the placement of a –44.00 ad in the Wall Street Journal that turned into a –15-million-a-year business and his artificial diamonds direct-mail campaign. Describes the 12 ``hats'' of direct marketing, how to pick products that will sell, and psychological and motivational aspects of the direct mail buyer.

For people who are thinking of starting a mail order business, or those involved in or planning to get into the direct marketing industry, this nuts-and-bolts guide explains the ``how'' and the ``why'' of the concepts and the techniques that make direct marketing work. Direct Marketing Success shows why list selection is crucial, and then shows how to do it, how direct mail can dramatically increase sales force efficiency, and how to create winning packages. Written the Direct Marketing Association's ``Man of the Year'' for 1985, and AdWeek's direct marketing columnist.