This is the BBDO Discipline, a useful four-step method for creating effective advertising and marketing. Learned while I worked at the Boston office of BBDO in the era of Phil Dusenberry and Allen Rosenshine (a golden time despite the fact the agency became better known to the general public as the outfit that set Michael Jackson’s hair on fire).
PROOF BOOK
Idea: Suspense in copy is motivating. True? Answer inside…
What do you need to know to beat your control? The answers to this list of questions will provide a good start when working with outside creatives. Or—and especially—if you attempt to do it yourself.
Costs are up. Response is down. Circulation is falling. Lists are exhausted. Offers are fatigued. Rules are changing. Subscribers are wary. Has there ever been a better time for new ideas in circulation? Here are some things you can do now to survive the tough times so you can positively thrive when — if ever — the going gets good.
Where do good ideas begin? Some do-it-yourself advice. In three words. Or less.
Here’s a list of tips, techniques, and truths to help you create winning subscription promotions. Do you know them all? Know a few more I should add? Reply before midnight.
OPEN LETTER
The myth of subscription direct mail is it gets very little response. In fact, it gets 100% response. Readers either love it or hate it. Remember it or forget it. Open it or throw it away. And to a degree far greater than you might imagine, how customers respond to your marketing is controlled by you.
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Richard Riccelli, Inc.
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