Archive for Video Marketing
Requiem For A Pitchman – Billy Mays Marketing Magic
Posted by: | CommentsOver at Clayton Makepeace’s blog, there is a special guest post from marketing maven Rich Schefren.
It’s all about TV pitchman Billy Mays and the marketing lessons to be learned from his work.
In a nutshell…
“…Billy knew how to do something that very few marketers realize is even possible. He knew how to create and stir up demand for a product in less than two minutes.”
“That’s right, in less than 120 seconds he was bale to introduce you to a product, get you to want it badly enough, and then get you to pick up the phone and crack open your wallet to order it. And once again – all in the span of two minutes.”
Now, for marketers and copywriters, this is going to be an increasingly important skill.
Book Marketing With Video – Killing Rommel
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Here’s something a little different from the usual marketing video clips that we’ve been looking at.
It’s from one of my favourite authors, Steven Pressfield.
His best known book is probably “Gates Of Fire”, a retelling of the epic battle between the Greeks (mainly Spartans) and the Persians at Thermopylae in 480 B.C.
Steven’s latest book is “Killing Rommel” a novel set against the back drop of the war in North Africa in 1942-43.
Now, if you like historical drama I think you’ll love this book. I got it a few weeks ago and couldn’t put it down. Wonderful book with a surprising twist at the end. Can’t rate it too highly.
But that’s not the main point of this post.
Another Great Marketing Video…
Posted by: | Comments…from Billy Mays.
After yesterday’s post, I couldn’t resist putting up one of Billy’s “Mighty Putty” infomercials.
Love the part with the truck! Who wouldn’t want some of this stuff!
My only slight quibble with this is that the offer is a little ordinary…great value for sure, but ordinary.
Farewell To A Great Modern Pitch Man – Billy Mays
Posted by: | CommentsSad…shocked really…to hear the news of the death of Billy Mays on June 28.
I confess that living in Australia and not watching a great deal of TV, I was not familiar with Billy and his ads until recently.
When I started to look more closely at marketing with video, the name Billy Mays came up as a master of the modern infomercial…
…especially the shorter variety that last only a couple of minutes.
And that makes his work perfect for us to get some pointers we can use in our own marketing videos.
‘Terminator Salvation’ – Thoughts On The Trailer
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Went to see the “Terminator Salvation” movie the other day…
…so I’ll take the opportunity to make a few comments about the movie and also continue the series of taking a look at the trailer to see if we can get some tips for marketing videos.
What I’m going to do when looking at trailers in future is use the framework of a truncated “A-I-D-A” formula…
