Sin of advertising
Posted by ivanckw at October 31st, 2007
Look at the analogy offer. Suppose that you are a door-to-door salesman. Your job is to go up and down the street knocking on every door trying to sell a vacuum cleaner. You know before you start that only 1 person in 20 is likely to have any interest in buying a vacuum cleaner.
When you find this person, what shall you do? If you are a good salesman, you are going in the house, proof that the aircraft, and to give as much information as possible in order to make the sale. What you do by the person who is your business card and say, “This is the address of my store in the city center. Come and visit me and I will show you my vacuum cleaners.
An ad running in the same way. Maybe only 1 person in 20 has a fundamental interest in the product. But once the interest is generated (the title role), which is the time to make the sale (the role of the body copy). While the text does not give enough information to consider the interest of anyone, it turns the page and the sale is lost.