Publishing Desk 5

Sales, Marketing & Direct Response

Direct mail, sales letters, offer construction, customer reactivation, and local authority marketing for entrepreneurs who want to sell more effectively — without hype, manipulation, or nonsense.

Reports & Field Manuals

Practical publications on selling, marketing, direct mail, and customer acquisition.

Direct MailComing Soon

Direct Mail for Local Business Owners

How to use direct mail to reach local prospects who are not on social media. List selection, offer construction, testing, and tracking.

Sales & CopywritingComing Soon

The 10 Sales Letters Every Business Needs

Templates and frameworks for the ten essential sales letters — from the welcome letter to the reactivation letter to the referral request.

Customer RetentionComing Soon

The Forgotten Customer Fortune

Your best next customer is probably someone who already bought from you. How to systematically reactivate dormant customers and past buyers.

Sales & CopywritingComing Soon

The Follow-Up Fortune

Most sales are lost in the follow-up gap. A complete system for closing the gap between inquiry and conversion.

Sales & CopywritingComing Soon

The Offer Command Manual

How to construct, test, and optimize offers. Price, guarantee, risk reversal, payment terms, bonuses, and the psychology of the yes.

Local MarketingComing Soon

The Local Authority Marketing Manual

How a local business becomes the obvious choice in its market. Positioning, content, partnerships, and visibility.

Sales & CopywritingComing Soon

How to Write Reports That Sell Consulting

Use special reports as buyer-acquisition tools that pre-sell prospects on your consulting, coaching, or implementation services.

PartnershipsComing Soon

The Referral Partner Machine

Systematic referral generation. How to identify, approach, and activate referral partners who send qualified prospects.

PartnershipsComing Soon

The Dream 100 for Local Businesses

Identify the 100 people, companies, and organizations that could transform your business — and how to build relationships with them.

Direct MailComing Soon

The Entrepreneur's Printed Catalog

Why a printed catalog still works. How to design, print, mail, and track a catalog that generates orders and builds a buyer file.

Content MarketingComing Soon

YouTube Authority for Entrepreneurs

How to build authority, attract prospects, and create a content library that works for years through educational video.

Paid AdvertisingComing Soon

Google Ads for High-Intent Business Problems

How to target people who are actively searching for solutions to business problems — and convert them into report buyers and consulting prospects.

Customer RetentionComing Soon

How to Reactivate Old Customers

A systematic campaign for bringing dormant customers back. Scripts, offer ideas, timing, and measurement.

EventsComing Soon

The Workshop Invitation Manual

How to fill a workshop. Invitation design, list selection, follow-up sequence, and conversion to implementation.

Direct MailComing Soon

The Postcard Testing Field Guide

Postcards are the lowest-cost entry point to direct mail. How to design, test, and scale postcard campaigns.

Direct MailComing Soon

The Direct-Mail Buyer File Manual

How to build, maintain, segment, and monetize a postal buyer file. The most valuable asset in direct-response publishing.

Tools, Templates & Worksheets

Practical tools that come with the reports — or available as standalone resources.

Sales Letter Templates

Ready-to-adapt templates for the ten essential sales letters every business needs.

Postcard Templates

Proven postcard layouts, headline formulas, and offer structures for testing.

Reactivation Scripts

Phone, email, and direct-mail scripts for bringing dormant customers back.

Referral Letters

Templates for requesting referrals from customers, partners, and centers of influence.

Workshop Invitation Package

Complete invitation sequence including letter, email follow-up, and reminder system.

Offer Builder Worksheet

A structured worksheet for constructing, pricing, and testing offers.

Test Matrix

A framework for designing and tracking split tests across lists, offers, headlines, and formats.

Campaign Profitability Calculator

Calculate breakeven, allowable cost per order, and lifetime value for any campaign.

Tracking-Code System

A simple source-code and tracking-URL system for attributing response to specific mailings and ads.

Testimonial Request Kit

How to request, collect, format, and use customer testimonials legally and effectively.

Case-Study Interview Guide

A structured interview guide for turning customer results into compelling case studies.

Direct-Mail Campaign Planner

End-to-end planner covering list, creative, offer, production, mailing, tracking, and analysis.

Direct Mail Still Works — When It's Done Right.

Learn our hybrid postage strategy, testing framework, and source-code system for measurable direct-mail campaigns.

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Acquire Publishing provides educational reports, field manuals, and tools for sales, marketing, and direct response. Results depend on execution, market conditions, offer quality, and other factors. No guaranteed sales results, customer counts, or campaign performance. Test everything. View our Earnings Disclaimer.