My wife and I are Baby Boomers and we have been the generation that most advertisers targeted their marketing to over most of my lifetime. That is until we "aged-out" of the 25-54 age demographic. That started happening in 2001 when the oldest Boomers who were born in...
Which is more powerful... Audio or video? Is what you see more powerful than what you hear? What stirs your heart, your emotions? If you have never been asked these questions, you should take some time to contemplate the answer before we continue. The...
I walked in for my 1 o'clock meeting, and there was a strange kind of energy at their office. I'm talking about energy in the air, the people were not their usual happy selves. I asked if Doug was in and they pointed to his office and went back to their...
It's often the question that most business owners dread:How Much Should I Spend On Marketing?I have a fresh take on this using the words of Roy H. Williams:One of the most common mistakes in advertising is to spread your ad budget across several different...
Want to know how to be ignored? Be Predictable. The Opposite is also true and we'll learn some little known advertising copy secrets as we continue with part 8 of a 9 part series based on Roy H. Williams Advertising Oversimplified article he wrote a few...
Sometimes business people want a proposal from me before we even talk about what they need or want. That's like going to a doctor and sayin, "Just give me some pills, the kind that everyone else is buying". That is more than ridiculous, it is stupid and...
I could have titled this: Dead Advertising Mediums. Read this from Roy H. Williams: Google is the new phone book. Like the Yellow Pages of yesterday, it is the principal resource for buyers who are currently, consciously in the market for a product or...
Continuing my series based on Roy Williams article about Advertising Oversimplified with my thoughts on points 2 and 3...Roy talks about Mass Media and targeting your advertising message:They call it “mass media” for a reason: it reaches the...
An old business owner joke goes like this; a reporter one day asked the CEO of a major company, “So, how many employees are working in your company?” The CEO replied, “approximately half of them”. It’s funny, but the problem is, it’s not necessarily a...