Timeless Marketing Truth: How To Add Character To Your Marketing And Bring Your Message Alive
Making a character out of the advertiser brings the message alive. Maxwell Sackheim is most famous for inventing the Book-of-the-Month Club. But before that, he invented some dramatic, and dramatically successful, advertising.
One of his patented techniques was to make a character out of the advertiser, writing ads as if the clients themselves were actually talking. One Sackheim client was Frank E. Davis, “The Gloucester Fisherman”. This is how Sackheim wrote for him:
“There is no use trying. I’ve tried and tried to tell people about my fish, but I wasn’t rigged out to be an ad writer and I can’t do it. I can close-haul a sail with the best of them. I know how to pick out the best fish of the catch But I’ll never learn the knack of writing an ad that will tell people why my kind of fishfresh caught, with the deep sea tang still in itis lots better than the ordinary store kind.
“At least you can taste the difference. So you won’t mind, will you, if I ship some of my fish direct to your home? It...
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