I couldn't resist...
Since everyone is getting the warm fuzzies over a Superbowl
commercial with no call to action, no offer and no reason to buy, I
thought I'd toss one of my one such ads in to the mix.
Ready?
Behold:
(Don't forget to imagine it being read in Paul Harvey's voice)
And on the ninth day, God looked down on His planned paradise and
said, "I need a salesmanship multiplied."
So God made a copywriter.
God said:
"I need somebody willing to get up before dawn, obsess over his
headline copy, work all day in the office, obsess over his headline
copy again, eat supper, then go to town and stay past midnight at
the bar scribbling ideas on cocktail napkins and asking drunk
people to read his ads."
So God made a copywriter.
God said:
"I need somebody willing to sit up all night while his ad
that he slaved over for 6 weeks is tested and watch it get beaten,
then dry his eyes and say, 'Maybe next month,' I need somebody who
can shape an advertisement from a disorganized client's team of
English majors who wouldn't know what a good ad was if it bit
them, write an 8 page sales letter for a 200 page book in under 2
hours, who can make a sale out of thin air with the right
combination of words, feed his family when work mysteriously dries
up and learn to live on scraps until the next assignment. Who,
during his other disorganized client's product launch will finish
his 40-hour week by Tuesday noon and then, paining from a sore back
sitting 12 hours straight, put in another 72 hours."
So God made a copywriter.
God said:
"I need somebody strong enough to clear his mind when his
own clients' employees sabotage his ads and not heave them out the
window like bales, yet gentle enough to yean empathic copy full of
irresistible bullets, who will stop his writing for an hour to take
his impatient dog out on a much-needed walk."
It had to be somebody who'd dig deep researching his market and
straight and not cut corners. Somebody willing to read, speak,
peek, and never forsake (his market), and risk, and grow, and never
say "can't", and make the peace with others who strain the morale.
Somebody who'd bale an ad together with the soft, strong bonds of
caring, who would laugh, and then sigh and then reply with smiling
eyes when his client says he wants to hire him again because nobody
else can do what he does.
So God made a copywriter.
Ben Settle
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Settle, LLC
www.BenSettle.com
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Monday, 4 February 2013
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