What’s Your Story?

When we talk about building your brand we always project into the future, and what your brand will become.Customers need time to buy, and use, and make your product part of their lives. It takes time for one generation to introduce your product to the next generation....
Bad Seduction

Bad Seduction

I just read some advertising suggestions on an Internet marketing site that are beyond annoying. They are flat-out bad advice. They illustrate a complete lack of understanding of the whole persuasion process. First, small business owners are told that advertising...

Reading Comprehension At 70 MPH

Ben Franklin is reported to have once written “I apologize for the length of this letter. I didn’t have time to write a short one.”I chose Ben’s quote for our on-going discussion of advertising to draw attention to a basic truism: it takes more skill to craft a six...

Wishin’ Don’t Make It So

Advertising can not fix a broken business. Oh, you might draw potential customers the first time through advertising, but from that point on it’s pretty much that customer’s Personal Experience Factor that determines whether she’ll be back, or not....