A belated “Happy New Year”! I’ve been away over the Christmas and New Year period visiting family in the UK and just got back. Unfortunately, haven’t quite mastered the art of being a “Road Warrior”… …so apologies for the lack of posts these last few weeks. Now, at this time of year, it’s pretty common […]
Farewell To A Great Modern Pitch Man – Billy Mays
Sad…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 […]
“Scientific Advertising In The 21st Century” – Part 4
Welcome to Part 4 of this series “Scientific Advertising In The 21st Century”. “Mail Order Advertising – What It Teaches” is the fourth chapter in the classic book by copywriter Claude Hopkins. And again it goes to the heart of what Hopkins saw as key to success in advertising. Testing, tracking and measuring so that […]