Time to look ahead at the month of March 2017 at the events anniversaries and holidays that we can use to build a marketing calendar March 2017 for campaigns, product launches or promotions. The main occasion of general interest is St Patrick’s Day on March 17. Plenty of scope for ideas based around luck, good […]
GKIC London Chapter – Meeting 19 November 2013
A quick note on yesterday’s (19 November 2013) meeting of the GKIC London Chapter. Ably hosted by David White as usual, another afternoon of great marketing information, updates and simply the opportunity to chat and swap ideas with like-minded marketers. David kicked off the afternoon with a tremendous presentation on creating your own info product, […]
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 […]
“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 […]