August 27th, 2008 |
Marketing |
This post’s headline couldn’t be farther from the truth. Facts are a crucial part of relating your brands story, you omit them at your own peril.
Show me web copy or advertisements that fail to substantiate claims and the odds are it’s generic and unpersuasive.
For instance, BattleRidge Builders created a thread on ContractorTalk.com for their new [...]
Read More →
August 19th, 2008 |
Advertising,
Consumer Behavior,
Marketing |
The Rochester Advertising Federation posted this interesting mural which is purportedly in a smoking area. It’s suppose to motivate people to quit smoking by getting them to contemplate their own death.
It’s brilliant creative. Unfortunately it’s ineffective because it fails to provide clear steps a person can take to prevent the long term consequence of cancer [...]
Read More →
August 13th, 2008 |
Consumer Behavior,
Marketing |
Although your customers might tell you, they really don’t know what they want.
On special holidays mom cooks pierogi for the family. She makes two kinds, those filled with mashed potatoe + cheese and the other with sauerkraut. What’s more, the pierogi I’ve had while eating out, and in the frozen section at Wegmans have stuck [...]
Read More →
August 6th, 2008 |
Consumer Behavior,
Marketing |
Persuade people to action by talking about what they want, not what you need.
While a young boy my family use to keep Hereford cattle for a few years. Every couple months after the heifers had grazed the grass to nubs we’d move them to a new pasture. At first this proved to be an exerting [...]
Read More →
August 5th, 2008 |
Marketing |
Achieving the remarkable is not a question of ’should’ but ‘how.’
I think the hang up for most people is they focus soley on the aspect of new. In questing for the unique they completely break from the past. When all along they should have asked, what two existing things might people have twin passions for, [...]
Read More →
July 31st, 2008 |
Direct Marketing,
Marketing,
Measurement |
Not long ago I spoke with a CEO about his goal of offering a software service through an ecommerce channel. Our conversation focused mainly on the specific market this would serve and the company website. At one point he beamed about regularly checking Alexa, and seeing the site ranking steadily climbing.
In that instant the little [...]
Read More →