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 […]
Halloween…SCARY Marketing Mistakes You Might Be Making…
…and not just at Halloween time but all year round! OK, I confess that the primary reason for this post is to give me an excuse to use my special Halloween CopyDoodles like this one… But I have to say it is FRIGHTENING how much money you might be missing out on through SCARY marketing […]
Use And Abuse Of THIS Famous Headline
Recently invested in “The Secrets Of Emotional, HOT-Button Copywriting” by Denny Hatch. Highly recommended by copywriting giants such as Drayton Bird and David Garfinkel and so far I can only agree with them. Now, in the introduction, Denny revisits the famous headline written by Maxwell Sackheim for the Sherwin Cody School Of English… “Do You […]
Copywriting Blogs Roundup – 10 July 2010
Must be the summer lull up in the northern hemisphere… …as it seems to have been a little slow on direct response copywriting and marketing blogs of late. And of those that are publishing, a number are resorting to the (quite legitimate) tactic of republishing earlier posts. Having said that, here are some items very […]