Mom was right, appearances do matter. She couldn’t have anticipated a world with social media when she said it. But it applies there too. Each tweet in your Twitter stream is a 140-character snapshot of your brand. There are other important factors to your Twitter success like sharing great content, optimizing your profile and engaging […]
Web copy: The false choice of brand vs. response
October 30, 2013 by Leave a Comment
Beware the hype about hype copy. It can take you off strategy. Case in point is an article I saw recently titled The epic face-off in copywriting: hype vs. no-hype. It is a frontal attack on direct response copywriting masked as a critique of hype. I am surprised a commentary on the evils of hype […]
Brand journalism, yesterday and today
October 22, 2013 by Leave a Comment
My first marketing mentor was fond of saying, “The old is forever new.” I think he would be fascinated by the concept of brand journalism today. He’d consider it old-school. Except for the technology, of course. Back in the 1970s he founded a direct marketing agency that was among the first to produce hybrid direct […]
You can learn a lot about brand storytelling from this classic direct response letter
October 16, 2013 by Leave a Comment
“On a beautiful late spring afternoon, twenty-five years ago, two young men graduated from the same college. They were very much alike, these two young men. Both had been better than average students, both were personable and both – as young college graduates are – were filled with ambitious dreams for the future. “Recently, […]
