Alternative descriptions of the same reality evoke different emotions and different associations.
Daniel Kahnemann
Author: bmmarketer
Classic Porsche copywriting
This is why copywriting is a brand’s weapon
Rewind: how they (used to) make a point about luggage
Let the audience fill in some blanks…
“When baiting a trap with cheese, always remember to leave room for the mouse” Howard Gossage, advertising icon
What he meant was, don’t just tell the audience what you want them to think. Leave some blanks for the audience to fill in themselves, so they reach the destination on their own. A conclusion or idea formed by the customer in their own mind is likelier to stay there.
Big picture versus fine detail
We often see the big picture in visual communications, before we narrow in on the fine detail.
(via a tweet by creative agency Gasp, and from a book by Orlando Wood at System 1)
A quite beautiful advert from Land Rover
Land Rover’s ‘Roam Free’ parkour commercial ❤️
PR example: when IKEA stopped using single-use plastic straws
Marketing lesson: keep trying
“What I had to do was get in the box 500 times a season. 100 times I’d connect. 50 times the goalkeeper would save it. Half of the rest would go in and 25 goals a season would do me – just by making sure I got in the box 500 times”
Jimmy Greaves, England football international
(H/T Dave Trott)
Bite-Sized Marcomms 