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Al Harberg's Software Marketing Newsletter

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Volume 03, Issue 6
November 3, 2005

    - Rent Al's Brain, and Sell More Software.
    - When Should You Send Your Press Releases to the Editors?
    - Book Review - Kotler on Marketing - How to Create, Win, and Dominate Markets by Philip Kotler.

Volume 03, Issue 5
August 22, 2005

    - Translation, Localization, Penicillin, and Shakespeare.
    - A Fanciful History of Newsletters.
    - Book Review - Never Wrestle with a Pig - and Ninety Other Ideas to Build Your Business and Career by Mark H. McCormack.

Volume 03, Issue 4
June 28, 2005

    - New Trade Association for Independent Software Industry Professionals.
    - How Long Should Your Web Pages Be?
    - Book Review - If I Knew Then What I Know Now - CEOs and Other Smart Executives Share Wisdom They Wish They'd Been Told 25 Years Ago by Richard Edler.

Volume 03, Issue 3
May 11, 2005

    - Start with your Best Sales Message.
    - Should Your Next Application Be a Windows PopUp Blocker?
    - Selling Software to Families.
    - Book Review - The Fall of Advertising and the Rise of PR by Al Ries and Laura Ries.

Volume 03, Issue 2
March 30, 2005

    - Top Five Tips to Get Your Customers to Subscribe to Your Newsletter.
    - Don't Assume that your Users have Broadband.
    - Book Review - eBay PowerSeller Secrets: Insider Tips from eBay's Most Successful Sellers by Debra Schepp & Brad Schepp.
    - Book Review - How to Close Every Sale - Field-tested, can't-lose techniques to win lifetime customers - and make every sale stick! by Joe Girard.

Volume 03, Issue 1
January 24, 2005

    - Drive Qualified Traffic to Your Web Site.
    - Positioning your Software in your Press Release.
    - Book Review - The Best Advice Ever for Becoming a Success at Work by Robert McCord.

Volume 02, Issue 16
December 20, 2004

    - It's Time to Start Your 2005 Press Release Campaign.
    - The CSS* Usenet Newsgroups are Back.
    - Look at your Web Site from your Prospects' Perspective.
    - Book Review - Entrepreneurs Are Made Not Born - Secrets from 200 Successful Entrepreneurs by Lloyd E. Shefsky.

Volume 02, Issue 15
December 7, 2004

    - Can Your Web Site Generate Impulse Sales?
    - Don't Say "Shareware" in Your Press Release.
    - Book Review - Success Leaves Clues - Practical Tools for Effective Sales and Marketing by John L. Stanton and Richard J. George.

Volume 02, Issue 14
November 18, 2004

    - Should You Use Pop-Up Windows on Your Web Site?
    - ESC Launches Blog.
    - Tell Prospects That Your Software is Unique.
    - Formatting Your Press Release.
    - Book Review - That's Outside My Boat - Letting Go of What You Can't Control by Charlie Jones and Kim Doren.

Volume 02, Issue 13
November 4, 2004

    - Focus on Profits.
    - Send Your Press Releases to the Vertical Market Editors.
    - Book Review - Take Back Your Time - How to Regain Control of Work, Information, and Technology by Jan Jasper.

Volume 02, Issue 12
October 11, 2004

    - Should You Quote Your Company's Officials in Your Press Release?
    - Closing the Sale - Creating a Series of Sales Screens for your Trial Version.
    - Book Review - CRM at the Speed of Light - Essential Customer Strategies for the 21st Century by Paul Greenberg.

Volume 02, Issue 11
September 27, 2004

    - Twenty Year Anniversary.
    - We don't read web pages. We scan them.
    - Tech Book Reviews by Kathy Salisbury of Pharos Games.
    - Book Review - MySQL Essential Skills by John W. Horn and Michael Grey.
    - Book Review - The Invisible Touch - The Four Keys to Modern Marketing by Harry Beckwith.

Volume 02, Issue 10
August 30, 2004

    - Keep Your Press Releases Impersonal.
    - Start Sending Newsletters to Your Customers and Prospects.
    - Educational Software Cooperative (ESC) Gets a New Board Member.
    - Book Review - The End of Marketing as We Know It by Sergio Zyman.

Volume 02, Issue 09
July 29, 2004

    - New, Lower-Cost Press Release Writing.
    - Create Customer Expectations that your Competitors Can't Match.
    - Encourage Your Customers to Tell Their Friends About Your Software.
    - Book Review - Carl Young's Adobe Acrobat 6.0 by Carl Young.

Volume 02, Issue 08
June 23, 2004

    - Watch Your Language! - How to increase sales by changing the way you talk to Americans.
    - Your Site Map Should be a Sales Page.
    - Get Listed in Magazines' Round-Up Articles.
    - Book Review - Russell Rules by Bill Russell.

Volume 02, Issue 07
June 7, 2004

    - What Does Your Web Site Do To Your Prospects?
    - Increase Software Sales with Inconsistency.
    - Your "Christmas Gift-Giving Guide" Press Release.
    - Book Review - The New Positioning by Jack Trout.

Volume 02, Issue 06
May 21, 2004

    - An Interview with Jessica Dewell, Former Director of RegNow.
    - Sending Your Press Releases to Newspaper Columnists.
    - Book Review - Direct Mail Copy That SELLS! by Herschell Gordon Lewis.

Volume 02, Issue 05
May 11, 2004

    - Can Opt-In Email Lists Increase Your Software Sales?
    - When Should You Send Your Press Releases to the Editors?
    - Three Ideas to Get Great Marketing Information, Make Friends, and Increase Sales.
    - Book Review - Ten Deadly Marketing Sins by by Philip Kotler.

Volume 02, Issue 04
April 28, 2004

    - Product Line Extensions, Brand Extensions, Suites, and Software Product Families.
    - The Wisdom of Bill Russell.
    - Book Review - What Were They Thinking? by Robert M. McMath and Thom Forbes.

Volume 02, Issue 03
April 21, 2004

    - Let's Talk About You: Sell More Software by Weaving Your Customers' Interests into your Web Site.
    - Keep Prospects on your Web Site.
    - Book Review - The Customer-Driven Company by Richard C. Whiteley.

Volume 02, Issue 02
March 31, 2004

    - Creating a Press Resources Web Page.
    - The Educational Software Cooperative (ESC) celebrates its tenth anniversary.
    - Book Review - Negotiate This! by Herb Cohen.

Volume 02, Issue 01
March 18, 2004

    - Upselling, Cross-Selling, After-Selling, and Just Plain Selling.
    - Closing the Sale.
    - Book Review - How to Sell Yourself by Joe Girard.

Volume 01, Issue 10
December 22, 2003

    - Convert Your Site from Techno-Babble to English, and Sell More Software.
    - Will This Work on My Machine?
    - Factoids.
    - Book Review - PowerLiving by Jake by Jake Steinfeld.

Volume 01, Issue 09
November 30, 2003

    - Scott Swedorski Leaves Tucows: An Interview with Tucows' Founder.
    - Selling Site Licenses.
    - Book Review - Your Marketing Sucks by Mark Stevens.

Volume 01, Issue 08
November 24, 2003

    - Losing Sight of Search Engine Visibility?
    - Leading with Your Chin.
    - Your Software's Unique Feature.
    - Book Review - The Anatomy of Buzz by Emanuel Rosen.

Volume 01, Issue 07
October 31, 2003

    - Handle Expert Advice with Care.
    - Making Your Postal-Mail Memorable.
    - Book Review - Unleashing the Ideavirus by Seth Godin.

Volume 01, Issue 06
October 21, 2003

    - How Press Releases Can Sell More of Your Software.
    - Developer-Reviewed Developers' Tools.
    - New Newsgroup for Software Developers.
    - Book Review - Purple Cow by Seth Godin.
    - Book Review - A Field Guide to Cows by John Pukite.

Volume 01, Issue 05
September 30, 2003

    - Your System Requirements are Denting Your Income.
    - The History of Software.
    - Internet Announcement Forum for Messaging Software.
    - Book Review - EVEolution by Faith Popcorn and Lys Marigold.

Volume 01, Issue 04
September 23, 2003

    - Turn Ordinary Paper into Money.
    - The Press Release Horse Race.
    - Please Add Me to Your Friends List.
    - EU VAT and the eCommerce Companies.
    - Book Review - The Big Red Fez by Seth Godin.

Volume 01, Issue 03
August 25, 2003

    - Increase Your Profits by Selling Software Upgrades.
    - Software Developers' Calendar.
    - Lost Opportunity Costs.
    - Book Review - Don't Make Me Think by Steve Krug.

Volume 01, Issue 02
August 11, 2003

    - Are you making hobby income or serious income?
    - The first Austin Shareware Schmooze will take place October 16-19, 2003 in Austin, Texas.
    - Get your software reviewed on Kim Komando's radio show.
    - Book review - Homepage Usability: by Jakob Nielsen.

Volume 01, Issue 01
July 18, 2003

    - Ten tips that will give you an immediate bump in sales.
    - Sell more programs by spending time in pleasant newsgroups.
    - Book review - Permission Marketing by Seth Godin.

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