Category Archives: Advertising

Between, Between and Drink a Chair

Be careful with translations.  Relying on Google or any other digital translation can bring you problems,  Not just small mistakes; but mistakes where the meaning is jumbled up and confusing. Effectively using a language that you to communicate with customers requires understanding the cultural context that it comes in. The title of this blog is… Read More »

Context Is Almost Everything In Advertising

We have seen a lot of commercials that just don’t sell.  One reason can be the context of the message. By context, I meant the executional elements that round out the message and provide a framework for it. The strategy might be “Tide cleans clothes better.” But there needs to be an execution around that… Read More »

Front Page Cereal Launch

There were established rules that limited the use of well known persons in advertising to children in Canada.  Then our client, General Mills, let us know they had signed a deal to launch a cereal, Pro*Stars in 1983, that would feature Wayne Gretzky, the Great One, on the package.  It was the brainchild of Mike… Read More »

PART V: Seek Professional Help for Advertising

PART V of V: 5 Advertising Mistakes Retailers Make Ever go into a car dealership and ask the sales guy to tune your engine?  You don’t really think that he/she would know how to do it, do you? Sales people sell cars they don’t provide highly technical engine adjustments.  The dealership has trained mechanics for… Read More »

Naming Things: An Advertising Solution

Human beings have an obsession for naming things.  This is not surprising since it is the basis of all society, all language and all communications. We name ourselves first.  We grow up knowing our labels and very few of us change those labels.  This is us adding our own version of metatags with each choice… Read More »