Never use abstract nouns when concrete ones will do. If you mean “More people died” don’t say “Mortality rose.”
C.S. Lewis, author
Never use abstract nouns when concrete ones will do. If you mean “More people died” don’t say “Mortality rose.”
C.S. Lewis, author

This great 2017 chart from BBH, based upon research from Kantar Millward Brown, shows that delivering one message is more effective than delivering many.
There’s a lesson in here for all marketing communicators… Bill Bernbach’s letter to the owners of Grey Advertising on Fifth Avenue where he was Creative Director. (Via ‘Letters of Note’ and @VikkiRossWrites).

“To make popular content, it’s not enough to know your friends or your followers. It’s about knowing the friends of your friends and the followers of your followers. For something to go big, it has to be interesting to those beyond your immediate audience – the audience of your audience.”
Jure Leskovec, computer scientist, Stanford University
Content without anything (paid) to draw attention to it, is like building Cathedrals in the desert
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