Welcome to this month’s “Looking Ahead” feature. Here we’ll review events, occasions, holidays and anniversaries that you can use in an event-driven marketing promotion or campaign in August 2013. It’s a pretty barren month for major holidays. In the northern hemisphere it’s the dog days of summer. In the south it’s the tail-end of winter. […]
Is Classic Direct Response The Best Advertising For iPad?
Something to ponder… …is classic direct response copywriting the most effective way to approach advertising through channels like the iPad? Arguably, of course, it’s the best approach to ANY advertising. I raise the question because of a conversation over lunch the other day with a good friend and client. This particular friend is a gadget-fiend […]
Lead Generation The Direct Response Way – Part 1
Some direct response marketing topics bear regular review. Lead generation is one of them. Gaining a new customer is widely regarded as one of the hardest and most expensive marketing tasks to accomplish. So here’s a guest post from fellow copywriter Troy White. I’ve posted guest articles from Troy before. At the much missed “Makepeace […]
Not Every Award Is Helpful In Your Advertising
The discipline of marketing and advertising is hardly new. The classic text on direct response marketing, “Scientific Advertising” was published as long ago as 1923. So it is something of a puzzle as to why large companies, who spend large sums on their marketing, often make what appear to be elementary blunders. A recent case […]