Magical Ad Writing for Everything From Piccolos to Recruitment
You have to: 1: Not sound like everybody else 2: Get into somebody’s imagination and mess around.
For the last 16 years, I have been the business partner of Roy H. Williams, aka The Wizard of Ads. Roy is like the wise big brother I never had. Today I am going to share some unsaid lessons. Some observations.
On November 19th, the owners of our local radio stations in our small city began sharing some of Santa PAC-man’s cash with its two primary clients: listeners and advertisers.
4 families in 5 use coupons, but not because the coupon instigated the purchase. Rather, they use the coupon because there was a coupon to be used.
In our combined 50-plus years of doing this, we’ve learned sales resistance and loss of repeat and referral customers comes from one of two places.
You need qualified, experienced guys & gals who also have the work ethic and cultural fit that great companies like yours insist on. And one thing about those people is they're almost never looking for a job.
You have to be careful because any amount you spend on advertising basically comes right out of your pocket.
Right from Tony’s first entrepreneurial venture, he understood that long-term thinking was a strategic advantage.
The blind spot of most business owners occurs directly at EBITDA Net Profits. We lose sight of the long-game for what we have right in front of us.
“The only thing people care about is the lowest price.” This is the rejoinder I most often hear when a business doesn’t see any value in advertising (much less marketing). This confounded me for many years until I realized advertising wasn’t the problem.
It’s the benefits that someone buys, not the features, right?! WRONG! Wait, what? Let’s explore for a moment…
Unfortunately, the tendency is for “verification” to feel intrusive and negative. As if you’re trying to catch someone doing it wrong. But it doesn’t have to be that way.
Mike Slover and Mike Whitmire explain what felt kind of broken within the company and how that was having an impact on the results they were having.
If you don't display the price in your store, I'll think it's expensive. I won't bother to ask the price and run the risk of embarrassing myself. I'll walk out.