10 Basic Truths of Advertising, Part 1
America has always sorted its mail over a trashcan, and now just as ruthlessly sorts, filters, and dismisses every other incoming stimuli. Modern life demands it.
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.
Right from Tony’s first entrepreneurial venture, he understood that long-term thinking was a strategic advantage.
“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.
We discuss considerations in calculating lifetime customer value, how you can maximize it, and how to be sure you don’t go broke waiting for that customer to come back.
As a Sales Operations Specialist, I am the first person to say that I am not a marketer. What I can say with 100% conviction is that a relational buyer is a way easier person to close.
David Ogilvy’s “The Man in the Hathaway Shirt” ushered in a new era of storytelling in advertising. The story, however, took place entirely in your imagination.