It can be easy to fall in love with a slick commercial when you’re looking for a campaign for your business. Maybe it makes you laugh, maybe it makes you sound cool, or trendy or any number of other images. But, does it actually say anything solid about your business?
Read MoreHonest question. Do we talk about ourselves too much in advertising?
Seriously. We all know that this is why people hate commercials of all types. They’re in your face, they waste your time, and they make you tune out.
Read MoreThe point of buying advertising time is to make your business stand out. So, why are so many commercials so easy to ignore? How are businesses allowing this to happen? Actually... it’s pretty easy. Don’t fret. Read this article and take the points to heart.
Read MoreCrappy commercials suck. You hate watching them, listening to them, being bombarded by them at every second of every damn day.
But… some of them. SOME of them get you. Some of them trick you into listening.
Read MoreIt’s easy to lose your creative flow, especially when you work in an industry that requires you to have dozens of ideas per day. Here are a few tricks I like to use to keep myself from working on terrible ideas.
Read MoreA person is smart. People are dumb. Here’s what we need to do in advertising to help them keep up.
Read MoreYou pick up your cell phone. Thumb around for 10 seconds and put it down. You go back to what you were doing. A minute or two passes by. As if by magic, you realize your cell phone is back in your hand.
Read MoreI always want to push you to make commercials that stand out. But, there are some things that you just … can’t … say!! I won’t go into the full depth of the legalities because they are extremely convoluted. This is just a short guide to show you what to avoid in Canada.
Read More30 seconds. That’s the amount of time you have to make someone listen up, and buy in. It isn’t a lot of time. And, if you don’t play that 30 second message enough, it may never make an impact.
Read MoreEvery business owner fears wasting their advertising budget. The unfortunate thing is, most advertising budgets are wastedas a result of fear.
Read MoreA great idea can be diminished by using it in tandem other good ideas.
Read MoreThere are some typical strategy’s some people employ to grab the listeners attention in a radio commercial. The stuff of clichés. Explosions, lasers, booming male announcer voice. I find that the opposite is actually true.
Read MoreYou know your business. But, chances are you don’t know how to get it out there. You may think you know how to write a radio commercial. How hard could it be right? It’s just a 30 second message?
Read MoreWe all know that Christmas is one of the biggest times of the year for consumer spending. And so, it’s also one of the busiest times for advertising. I actually think it isn’t the best time to advertise though.
Read MoreI was in a creative meeting this week. We were talking about a client that wanted to do an exciting sale ad. It’s not the type of thing you particularly dream of making a commercial about, but it does come up fairly often. Usually they all sound the same.
Read MoreRadio is a great medium. And there’s every chance that it’s the only one you need. But, I get that you might not be convinced by one guy writing a blog on the net. Or maybe you manage a business that has a sizeable advertising budget that can properly span across multiple mediums
Read MoreToo much copy. It’s the death of any radio script. It doesn’t matter how brilliant your script is. If it needs to be rushed to fit into the allotted 30 or 60 seconds, it suffers.
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