…and marketers…in fact, pretty much anyone! Let’s face it, copywriting and creating effective direct response marketing campaigns can be mentally gruelling at times. So, I was most interested in a recent article in the Australian edition of “Men’s Health” with the title… “Choosing Sides – Harness the hidden power of your brain’s separate hemispheres to […]
Looking Ahead – Marketing Calendar July 2009
Time to look ahead to July at events and holidays that can be used to build a marketing promotion around. From now on, I’ll have two parts to these posts. The first will look specifically at Australia. The second will be primarily North America with some other major events included if they broadly of interest. […]
How The Once Mighty Are Fallen…
Received a solicitation from Amex yesterday for a Gold Card. Now, in my humble opinion, the classic “Quite frankly” Amex letter is one of the all time great pieces of direct response copywriting. Lost count of how many times I’ve written it out longhand. So it was with a great sense of disappointment…
Marketing World Shocked As Top Copywriter Stops Writing!
I was going to call this post “Has The Offline Newsletter Had It’s Day?” but decided to practice my “National Enquirer” headline skills! So which top copywriter has quit? Well, none actually. However, the great John Carlton has decided to stop writing and publishing his monthly “Marketing Rebel Rant” newsletter. The last issue was number […]