It’s painful to admit… …but sometimes I do make what are, in hindsight, fairly elementary blunders in a piece of copy work. In any piece of direct response copywriting, the principal objective is to get the reader to take a specific action. That can be to make a purchase from you or a step towards […]
Marketing And Movie Trailers – Prometheus
The movie Prometheus from Ridley Scott (Director of “Alien” and “Bladerunner”, amongst many others) is about to be released in the US and Australia (I believe it’s already showing in Europe). I confess that I have been eagerly looking forward to this ever since I heard about the project. “Alien” and “Bladerunner” are […]
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 […]