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Larson & Associates - Target Marketing & Telesales for New Account Acquisition

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We make good business great and great businesses ever better.

A direct advertising & marketing studio that knows, understands and puts into practice guerrilla marketing and advertising techniques for our clients to achieve consistent and desired growth.

Our speciality is New Account Acquisition. This is telesales and guerrilla marketing put together. It is not advertising, not marketing, not telemarketing, not a manufactures rep service, but a new way for you to gain new accounts and grow your business.

Awards and Honors:
1981 PIA Merit Award 3rd place
1988 Helen Cody Baker Award 1st Place
1988 Chicago Excellence In Typography Award
1989 Sales Profesionals International - Club Service Award - Bronze Award
1993 Sales Profesionals International - Club Service Award -Bronze Award
2003 Graphic Design USA 1st place
2006 Black MBA Assoication Media Award 1st place

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Contact Howard at
larsonassoc1975@yahoo.com
847-991-0488

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"Be ye assured that in place of these contributions, your agriculture, your industry, your commerce will be blessed by manifold increses, with goodly gifts and bestowals." ~ 'Abdu'l-Baha

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http://www.larsonassociates.ws

Looking for a new client in the Advertising Specialties field looking to expand deeper into Trade Shows. Upping our normal 2% bird dog fee to 3% for 1st years billing for this category.

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Howard Larson
Larson & Associates
Target Marketing & Telesales Professionals for new account acquisition
Making good businesses great and great businesses even better
847-991-0488
larsonassoc1975@yahoo.com

Howard Larson's Blog

Is Direct Mail Dying?

It is true that direct mail on any scale is not the kingpin of a marketing plan like it use to be, but it is far from dying away. Any channel will lose its overall effectiveness when it is used alone. Not all customers and prospects respond to your advertising and marketing message in the same way. We all are more sensitive to the way we process information, sight, touching and hearing all come into play. So to with communication preferences; phone, email, search, radio & tv, youtube and

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Posted on June 15, 2010 at 9:06am —

Boost Your Organic Search Efforts

You want your web page to be up at the top of a page search and you want it, yesterday? Aside from pay for click how can you achieve this?

No it’s not SEO nor is it writing blogs, the best fastest way might be an online press rel

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Posted on February 24, 2010 at 10:32am —

Pay For Clicks? I’m Just Not Sure.

To be seen, To be found. Yes as in Horton Hears a Who” “I am here, I am here’ I am here!”

I got a letter from last week. Pinned it up on my bulletin board to take a good hard look at it. $100 to try AdWords! Should I? Could I? Free! No risk! No obligation! All those great words to use in a targeted direct mailer. Redeem now and use by January 31 or it goes down to $75.00. Opps its February 3rd. Wow expiration date! Now I have till March 31st, (My 2nd cousin 3 times removed birthday {When your S… Continue

Posted on February 3, 2010 at 10:29am —

Making & Keeping Your Online Brand

For many businesses the creating of your brand and maintaining it is a skill that is lacking and can be difficult to learn let alone implement. To many a brand is simply a name a symbol or something easily distinguishable to help people identify with the product r service. Now while that is true, a brand can be and is much much more. It can be what defines the company. It can be the identity that customers recognize whey they see it, subliminally. It can be the comfort factor to your customers.… Continue

Posted on February 2, 2010 at 11:26am —

The Week Ahead February 2-5, 2010

Monday: December personal spending,
Tuesday: January vehicle sales
Wednesday: January ISM services index
Thursday: Weekly initial jobless claims
Friday: January employment report, December consumer credit

Wasn’t last week’s numbers nice? The fastest in more than 6 years at a 5.7% increase in gross domestic product as factories finally started getting orders to fill up depleted inventories. Keep in mind that the economy is still healing. We are not out of the woods nor will we be anytime soon. U… Continue

Posted on February 1, 2010 at 3:11pm —

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