“Having a laugh” 1. When someone is being inconvenient, or taking advantage of someone else 2. To insult someone and then claim it was a joke ( The catchphrase of Andy Millman’s (Ricky Gervais) in the tv-show-within-a-tv-show, “When the Whistle Blows”. (from Extras.) Spoken in a high pitch and followed by “Is s/he havin’ a […]
Facebook Business Pages…Build It…
Just because you build a Facebook business page doesn’t mean anyone will show up…
Marketing And The Social Media Ghost Town
The deserted town on the high plains with tumbleweed blowing through is a staple of western genre movies… …and the cyber-equivalent seems to be cropping up in social-media land… This wonderful cartoon from the great “marketoonist” Tom Fishburne says it all. One of the downsides of social media for small businesses is…
Drayton Bird On Copywriting And Marketing Today…
I’ve been coming across the name and work of copywriter and direct response marketing maven Drayton Bird a lot lately. That reminded me of an interview that Clayton Makepeace conducted with Drayton for the members of his copywriting membership program. It’s one of the best interviews on contemporary marketing that I’ve come across. I had […]