2,239 Tested Secrets for Direct Marketing Success

"A 10-pound heart of Godiva chocolates couldn't possibly be more delicious and satisfying than the juicy nuggets that fill this anthology of direct marketing wit and wisdom. Read it slowly. It's a book to be studied, to be savored, and--of course--to be unashamedly stolen from." -- Emily Soell, Vice Chairman/Chief Creative Officer Worldwide DraftDirect Worldwide "What a treasure chest for direct marketers around the world!" -- Bob Stone, Chairman Emeritus Stone & Adler "What a brilliant idea this book is . . . for learning and reference by professionals and novices alike. It's a great read, well-organized." -- Martin Baier "Denny Hatch and Don Jackson have done our industry a great service. . . . Anyone who reads this book and puts its lessons to work will profit mightily from it." -- Arthur Middleton Hughes, Executive Vice President ACS, Inc. "They left out one "secret": Buy this book." -- Murray Raphel Raphel Marketing "Hatch and Jackson rule with their new 2,239 Tested Secrets for Direct Marketing Success. There's nothing else like it!" -- Jim Rosenfield, Chairman Rosenfield & Associates "Denny and Don have done it! . . . Their unique collection of the direct marketing industry's best secrets--covering alternate media to creative and databases . . . to design, fulfillment and Internet marketing . . . to testimonials and telemarketing, and so much more--will prove to be an invaluable yardstick for seasoned direct marketers and neophytes alike. -- John Harrison, President DiMark, a Harte-Hanks Company "Jackson and Hatch have . . . organized a readable anthology of the rules for making direct response and advertising work in any business." -- Henry R. "Pete" Hoke, Publisher Emeritus Direct Marketing Magazine "This one's for all of us . . . whether you just entered the business or have gray in your hair, this book is a must. . . . The 'rules' that Hatch and Jackson provide are the result of the experiences of some of the most important innovators in direct marketing. The result is not only a useful tool which I will use frequently, but a compendium of truly BIG ideas!" -- Jerry Reitman, Executive Director Chicago Direct Marketing Educational Foundation "I was delighted to find this volume is more than just a gold mine of ideas. It's more like a good novel. Open to any page, and it's hard to put down." -- Jim Kobs, Chairman Kobs Gregory Passavant

Every discipline--from brain surgery to auto making to marketing--is based on the work of those who have gone before. You study their tests, capitalize on their successes, and learn from their failures. In short, every art, science, and industry has a set of canons, caveats, codes, constants, considerations, codicils, constraints, criteria, and customs that have been developed over time. And so it is with direct marketing. To listen to some self-appointed marketing gurus who have recently "discovered" the discipline, you would think direct marketing is relatively new to the marketing scene. Nothing could be further from the truth. Aside from the fact that direct marketing is more than 400 years old (the first book catalogs were printed in Venice in the 1500s), it has been a hallmark of 20th-century commerce because it is the one knowable way of building a business. Direct marketing is the business of acquiring customers and donors and getting to know them--keeping track of their transactions and then continuing to delight them by serving their current needs, creating new wants, and, above all, persuading them to act . . . to respond to a proposition. Despite its long and profitable history, no one has assembled a single collection of all the basic secrets (or rules) of direct marketing. Until now. In these pages Denny Hatch and Don Jackson blitz you with the secrets, rules, and wisdom of nearly 200 of the great masters: from Claude Hopkins, David Ogilvy, and Max Sackheim to such modern greats as Jay Abraham, Dick Benson, Malcolm Decker, Bob Doscher, John J. Fleider, Jerry Gould, Bob Hacker, Dick Hodgson, Cecil Hoge Sr., Bill Jayme, Ted Kikoler, Jim Kobs, Herschell Gordon Lewis, Malcolm McCluskey, Don Nicholas, J. Peterman, Max Ross, Jim Rutz, Emily Soell, Lew Smith, Bob Stone, Joan Throckmorton, and John Yeck. So . . . what is this book's proposition? Simply that you can have, at your fingertips, the individual and collective wisdom of the greatest practitioners of this century about: Creative, Copy, Math, Space Ads, Direct Mail, Production, Management, Strategy, Lists, Testing, Offers, Fulfillment, Back-End Operations, Lead Generation, and (of course!) much, much more!