Do you send out marketing emails? Do you want to increase your open and conversion rates? Here are some tips […]
June 27, 2008
April 2, 2008
Re: yesterday’s post on direct response
Careful readers may recall I touched on flash ads as direct response mechanisms. I was thinking of doing an analysis […]
April 1, 2008
Direct response copywriting: a few thoughts
Yesterday I posted a video of David Ogilvy explaining his basic philosophy of advertising. You could sum up his view […]
March 25, 2008
A quick case study: impulse buying
Lock up your daughters and hide the family silver, because Hilton has strayed from his Welsh mountain fastness and is […]
January 30, 2008
‘Unelected, self-appointed dimwits’
Copywriting can get you into a lot of trouble.
The title of this post is a direct quote from Peter Sherrard, […]
January 14, 2008
Can copywriting save the turkey?
In a word, no.
Back at the start of December Bob Bly asked whether copywriting is slowly dying. If it is, […]
July 16, 2007
Despair of man, and watch The Simpsons. You will despair no more. If human beings can make a TV show […]
July 7, 2007
The guy who had the bright idea of putting A3 sheet ads above the urinals in men’s public toilets has […]
January 29, 2007
Advertising and marketing: the differences
You could be forgiven for thinking that advertising and marketing are the same thing. In books and on websites the […]
October 20, 2006
Because of the nature of my business, I tend to spend a lot of time sat on my backside in […]
