Last week, I won a bullet-writing* competition. So what, you may say? Fair enough. Beating out a bunch of very talented copywriters… winning an award from copy chief Kevin Rogers and Australia’s best copywriter, David Throssell… or just getting the right people on the hook for your offer… It Isn’t […]
6 Ways To Use Email To Move Near-Expired Food Can you use emails to sell near-expiry food in a way that doesn’t downgrade your brand? Add 6 simple types of messaging to your promotional emails to start selling almost-expired goods like hotcakes. In the past, businesses like yours have thrown away food […]
Did you know that our decisions are made by our “lizard brain” or “old brain”, a brain that doesn’t even understand words? Some people call the old brain the first brain, because it appeared first – before we grew a middle brain and new brain. The old brain is the first to develop in utero. […]
Takeshi Okawara, the marketing genius who sold Japan on KFC for Christmas dinner, recently admitted that it was built on a lie. When KFC Japan was starting from scratch, the national broadcaster NHK asked if fried chicken was really the Western Christmas tradition. Okawara replied “Of course!” He told podcast “Household Name” : “I knew that the […]
Stressing out over mailing deadlines for Christmas cards and presents ? In 1880, the Victorian postal service made its first ever plea to post early for Christmas. No later than the 24th of December, please! Christmas Day mail service was restricted to only one delivery. A very British problem, indeed. Would you pay to receive […]
The Big Apple hardly noticed laurel and Hardy leaving but, by God, Cobh noticed them arriving. Adrian Patrick Gebruers tells the story of how, as a young boy in St Joseph’s Boy’s Primary School, Cobh, Co. Cork: “The thought that our favourite film comedians might be a stone’s throw away down town while we scholars […]
Mars once offered a reward of 2 million dark chocolate M&M’s for the return of the recently stolen painting “The Scream”. The offer was tied to the launch of an 2006 ad campaign for Dark M&M’s. Mars added a rather terrifying red M&M playing hopscotch in their version of “The Scream” As the slogan says […]
Is there a website that you turn for inspiration, business tips or the latest tech tools and hacks? Ever wondered what websites entrepreneur swear by to save time and refine their skills? Here are 67 websites that entrepreneurs recommend in online forums. Canva, Trello, and Producthunt get a lot of love! The good news is […]
Here’s a guide to writing e-commerce product category descriptions with a twist. Every single tip is backed up by real e-commerce website copy that I just worked on. Every business relies on words. But how does an e-commerce site get the words right while focusing on suppliers, sales channels, markets, currencies, legal requirements – and […]
Just before a firing squad executed him, Gary Gilmore was asked if he had any last words. “Let’s do it,” he said. Swoosh to Dan Wieden, the founder of Wieden + Kennedy agency. Wieden told Dezeen Magazine how he picked the “Just do it” slogan: “The reason I did that one was funny because I […]
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