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.

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.

This essential resource provides readers with the plans and real examples to market and grow a successful practice. The guide is filled with practical marketing tips and strategies based around the five components of a successful practice.

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.

Risks, Reputations, and Rewards looks at a variety of interrelated questions about contingency fee legal practice: What is the nature of the contingency fees that lawyers charge? How do lawyers get and screen potential cases? How do contingency fee lawyers interact with their clients and opponents? What is involved in settling these cases? What types of returns do contingency fee cases produce? And what role does reputation play in contingency fee practice? The author argues that to be successful, contingency fee lawyers must generate a portfolio of cases, similar to an investment portfolio with its associated risk. This has a significant impact on how contingency fee lawyers obtain and select cases, manage their work, and deal with the pressures that arise in settling cases. More important, understanding the work of contingency fee lawyers in terms of an ongoing practice rather than in terms of individual cases mitigates some of the significant conflicts that may exist between lawyers and clients.

Chapter 1: Research -- Chapter 2: Creative Strategy -- Chapter 3: Headlines and Slogans -- Chapter 4: Body Copy -- Chapter 5: An Introduction to Design -- Chapter 6: Newspaper Advertising -- Chapter 7: Magazine Advertising -- Chapter 8: Radio Advertising -- Chapter 9: Television Advertising -- Chapter 10: Direct Mail Advertising -- Chapter 11: Internet Advertising -- Chapter 12: Other Media Advertising -- Chapter 13: Public Relations and Corporate Advertising -- Chapter 14: Advertising Copy Research -- Chapter 15: Advice on How to Get a Job in Advertising -- A Final Note -- References -- Appendix: Graduate Programs.

Here is the perfect book for entrepreneurs and small business owners who want to know how to create effective advertising on an affordable budget. Persuasive Advertising for Entrepreneurs and Small Business Owners shows you how to plan and execute money-making advertisements and commercials--on a workable budget. Jay Granat, an experienced marketing professional and ad man, provides readers with a practical understanding of advertising principles, media selection, copywriting, consumer behavior, and persuasive advertising methods in promotional efforts. These principles have important implications, and Jay Granat shows you how to utilize them and stay within your means. Successful cases from across the media--television, print, direct mail, radio, transit, and public relations, representing construction, law, medicine, publishing, retail businesses, restaurants, and others--highlight various prosperous approaches to persuasive advertising. Written specifically for entrepreneurs and small business owners, Granat’s book is the first to explain how to use persuasive tactics and strategies. Ideal for established small business owners and those starting such a venture, this manual makes affordable advertising an easier step on the path to success. In addition to analyzing many aspects of advertising, this manual outlines appropriate networking and public relations strategies for entrepreneurs and small business owners. Granat teaches you how to construct money-making advertising and to recognize when your sales messages are effective and when the messages need to become more persuasive. To help illustrate the power of effective sales messages, he includes examples of his own advertising successes and failures. You will be better equipped to foresee when your own advertising campaigns are more likely to succeed or more likely to fail and how to reverse a failing campaign. Descriptions of the advantages and disadvantages of each advertising medium assist with the question of how to construct effective and persuasive selling messages for specific media. Whether you are looking for advice on how to plan a marketing/advertising campaign, ways to familiarize yourself with each medium available and select a medium to carry your messages, or how to use mind-set advertising, you will find it in Persuasive Advertising for Entrepreneurs and Small Business Owners. This abundance of useful information is ideal for copywriters, brand managers, entrepreneurial institutes, business professors, communications professionals, readers of Inc., Success, and Entrepreneur, advertising and marketing students, and of course, entrepreneurs and small business owners.

John Philip Jones, has compiled a comprehensive guide to the seventy-seven key organizations and publications in the field of advertising and marketing communications.Entries are arranged alphabetically and include a thorough description of each organization's purpose, activity and contact information. The book covers industry trade organizations, research organizations, academic organizations and pro-social organizations.The collection is global in scope, with twenty seven enteries from outside the United States. Key publications such as AdWeek, Advertising Age and AdMap are icluded.