Big corporations have spent millions and millions of dollars researching their ads.
And just about all of that research supports one truth, people take one idea away from an ad.
In fact, when presented with more then one proposition,
people are often confused and take nothing away.

In an advertising strategy this is called "the key point." And coming up with it is the hardest thing
about doing an ad. The tendency for most advertisers is to be everything for everybody.
This homogenization leaves almost all individual consumers unmoved.
Basically, everyone wants to know, what's in it for me.
And they don't have the patience, time or interest to figure it out for you.
This is why effective advertising needs to define a target group/consumer and then
tell them what's in it for them.

To do an effective ad you need someone who can create a legitimate strategy.
You need us.

01 | When it's 110 people need a good reason to come out.
02 | Your competition is closed for the summer. Now's the time to steal their business.
03| If you're the smartest person in the room when you're planning your advertising, you need help.
04 | If you think having a website means you don’t need advertising, you’re living a lie.
05 | Creating local advertising is restricted to local talent. Wrong.
06 | The worst judge of your advertising is you.
07 | Advertising is not a graphic design problem.
08 | At some point it will hit you that a family member cannot do your advertising.
09 | If you’re relying on word-of-mouth you’re a fool.
10 | If standing on a curb swinging an arrow is your best way to get customers,
your completely at the mercy of karma, and a lot of bad drivers.
11 | One way to advertise is to park your truck by the road.
Of course it also tells everyone your business is so dead you can park your truck by the road.
12 | If your advertising doesn’t work fire the one responsible (especially if it’s you.).
13 | If the creative is thrown in with the media buy it should give you a clue as to what it’s worth.
14 | There are only 10 advertising messages.
The trick is making one of them ownable. Something thousands fail at each day.
15 | If you see dust coming from this site, do something to buildup your business before it’s too late.
16 | There are plenty of award-winning designs that don’t sell sh*t.
17 | You could write a book about the things you don’t know about advertising. In fact, Amazon has “hundreds” of them.
18 | At some point, awareness is meaningless.
19 | The Coca-Cola advertising target is “anyone with a mouth.”
Unless you have their money, you need to be more selective.
20 | Unless you have the volume of Wal*Mart, a price war is a doomed strategy.
21 | Advertising without a strategy is just throwin’ money away.
22 | If you think your ads sound like everyone else's, imagine what those who don’t know your business think.
23 | If you can’t get new people to come through the door, eventually all of your customers die or go elsewhere.
24 | If you have nothing to offer, close. If you do, shout it from the rooftops so you don’t have to.
25 | Average is average because that’s what most things are. Like the ads in the newspaper.
26 | There may be a worse person then you to do your ads, but we’re hard pressed to figure out who that would be.
27 | New ideas take new thinking. Which means you need new people.
28 | If it’s too hot for your customers to come out, get new ones.
29 | The only thing more important than running an ad is the ad itself.
30 | When you live in a valley a lot of things can get into a rut, like the advertising.
31 | Advertising works. If yours doesn’t fire the people doing it.
32 | Advertising may help. It may not. How do you know? We know.
33 | We’re from NYC. We wear black, talk fast, are considered rude by just about everyone outside of NYC,
and are really,really, really good at what we do.
34 | In-house creative is a lot like kissing your sister.
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