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What Would a Successful Author Do? - The Power of Reader Magnets (Paperback): K Vermaak What Would a Successful Author Do? - The Power of Reader Magnets (Paperback)
K Vermaak
R337 Discovery Miles 3 370 Ships in 10 - 15 working days
Law Firm Marketing - How to Promote Your Law Firm Without Looking Like an Ambulance Chaser (Paperback): Felica Sparks, Chris... Law Firm Marketing - How to Promote Your Law Firm Without Looking Like an Ambulance Chaser (Paperback)
Felica Sparks, Chris Gattis
R222 Discovery Miles 2 220 Ships in 10 - 15 working days

A practical guide for developing a marketing plan and promoting your law firm. Law Firm Marketing: How to Promote Your Law Firm Without Looking Like an Ambulance Chaser helps attorneys develop a marketing plan and deployment strategy to promote their business. Law Firm Marketing includes an outline and discussion of the major parts of any good marketing plan including completing the research, developing a marketing strategy, and converting the strategy into action plans. It includes a sample marketing plan for use with your firm. This book is aimed specifically at attorneys and law firms, but can be used by any profession concerned about their public persona and professionalism. This book will show you the basic parts of developing marketing plans and then how to apply the strategies and tactics to a law firm. Forget the theory and management jargon. If you want to know how to develop a plan to start promoting your legal practice in the real world, this book is for you Take your idea, develop your marketing strategy and put it into use using the system developed by Chris and Felica.

Word of Mouth Marketing - The Comic Book (Paperback): Cale Johnson Word of Mouth Marketing - The Comic Book (Paperback)
Cale Johnson; Illustrated by Shane Clester; Andy Sernovitz
R319 Discovery Miles 3 190 Ships in 10 - 15 working days

Word of Mouth Marketing: The Comic Book

By Andy Sernovitz with Cale Johnson. Illustrated by Shane Clester.

Quickly learn to get people talking about you in this fast, fun, comic edition of the New York Times bestseller Word of Mouth Marketing: How Smart Companies Get People Talking.

The original is the #1 word of mouth marketing book since 2004, translated into 14 languages. This exciting new graphic novel edition makes these fantastically useful ideas even easier to read, implement, and share.

The comic edition is a great way to teach word of mouth marketing to teams that need it most but don't have the time to sit down with the complete book. For fans of the full book, the comic makes a great back-pocket guide for your day-to-day marketing.

With straightforward advice and humor, Andy Sernovitz will show you how the world's most respected and profitable companies get their best customers for free through the power of word of mouth.

Learn the five essential steps that make word of mouth work and everything you need to get started. Understand how easy it is to work with social media, viral marketing, evangelists, and buzz. Start using simple techniques that start conversations: Reasons People Talk About You 4 Rules of Word of Mouth Marketing 5 Ts of Word of Mouth Marketing 6 Big Ideas: Deep Stuff That Changes Marketing Forever

Learn to use word of mouth marketing to make your company more profitable, how to spend less on marketing, and how to make your customers happier.

How to Make Your Advertising Make Money (Paperback): John Caples How to Make Your Advertising Make Money (Paperback)
John Caples
R538 R463 Discovery Miles 4 630 Save R75 (14%) Ships in 10 - 15 working days

How to Make Your Advertising Make Money by John Caples

In this remarkable reference, John Caples, a man who has won countless awards and made millions of dollars for some of the largest companies in the United States, draws upon more than 50 years of experience to show you how to write advertising copy that sells anything and everything... write headlines that command instant attention...save thousands of dollars in expenses each year...and much more.

Containing hundreds of true stories, checklists, and guidelines, this sourcebook is for every copywriter, creative director, and business executive who wants to learn how to write copy that sells-from the master who most say did it better than anyone. You'll get:

1. Secrets of Successful Advertising 2. Twelve Ways to Find Advertising Ideas 3. Three Famous Case Histories 4. How to Get Ideas from Brainstorming 5. 303 Words and Phrases that Sell 6. How to Write Sentences that Sell 7. Sales Appeals that Last Forever 8. How to Write Headlines that Make Money 9. How to Use Stories to Sell Products 10. Tips on Copywriting 11. How Editorial Style Ads Can Bring Increased Sales 12. How to Write Sales Letters that Make Money 13. How Direct Response Can Help Advertisers Make Money 14. Ways to Improve Your Copy 15. How to Write Radio Commercials that Get Action 16. How to Apply Mail Order Know-How in Writing TV Commercials 17. Summing Up My Success Secrets I Have Learned in 50 Years

Meet the Author

John Caples was Vice President of BBDO, Inc. when he retired after 40 years of service with the nation's third largest advertising agency. The creator of such classic ads as "They Laughed When I Sat Down at the Piano" and "They Grinned When the Waiter Spoke to Me in French," and a member of the Copywriters's Halls of Fame, Mr. Caples built a nationwide reputation for his research and scientific methods of testing advertising effectiveness.

The 7 Graces of Marketing - How to Heal Humanity and the Planet by Changing the Way We Sell (Paperback): Lynn Serafinn The 7 Graces of Marketing - How to Heal Humanity and the Planet by Changing the Way We Sell (Paperback)
Lynn Serafinn
R610 Discovery Miles 6 100 Ships in 10 - 15 working days

Is Marketing making us ILL?

Could marketing be making our society and our planet ILL? That is the question marketer and coach Lynn Serafinn poses in this eye-opening, informative and inspiring read. A bold, holistic and often spiritual examination not merely of the world of advertising, but also of our entire world view, this book reveals how our relationships with Self, others, our businesses, our economy and the Earth impact every aspect of our lives. Addressing both the conscious and unconscious mechanics of marketing, Lynn shows the impact consumer culture has upon our health, our economy and the delicate ecological balance of our natural world. A book as much for the conscious consumer as the ethical business owner, this book shows why traditional ways of selling are ultimately doomed to fail, and how both business owners and consumers can begin to heal the world by embracing a new paradigm Lynn calls 'The 7 Graces of Marketing.' Brit Writers Awards Finalist
eLit Book Awards Silver Medal in Humanitarian & Ecological Social Issues

BONUS GIFT: On the last page of the book, there is a link to a page where readers can download 7 MP3s (over 10 hours of audio) from the '7 Graces Telesummit' with over 20 international speakers on the topic of ethical marketing. PRAISE FOR 'THE 7 GRACES OF MARKETING

"'At last Here's a brilliant reframe of marketing and selling. Lynn Serafinn offers a brave new world, where competition and scarcity give way to collaboration, abundance and greater connection among all humanity--and we still profit and prosper as we help each other. I love it '"
DR JOE VITALE
Author of "The Attractor Factor "and "Buying Trances"

"'This is what the world has been waiting for Finally a marketing book that guides us out of fear, lack and limitation into love, prosperity and abundance.'"
ERIC PEARL
Author of "The Reconnection: Heal Others, Heal Yourself"

"'The world NEEDS this book Lynn is ahead of the curve, and leading us toward how we will ALL look at marketing in the future.'"
RICHARD S. GALLAGHER
Author of "How to Tell Anyone Anything" and "What to Say to a Porcupine" ABOUT THE AUTHOR

LYNN SERAFINN is a certified, award-winning coach, teacher, marketer, radio host, speaker and author of the #1 bestseller "The 7 Graces of Marketing" and "Tweep-e-licious 158 Twitter Tips & Strategies for Writers, Social Entrepreneurs & Changemakers Who Want to Market their Business Ethically." She is listed in the Top 20 of the 'Top Marketing Authors on Twitter' by "Social Media Magazine" and was a finalist for the prestigious Brit Writers Awards. She also received the eLit Book Awards Silver Medal in Humanitarian and Ecological Social Affairs, as well as the Bronze Medal in Business and Sales.

Lynn's eclectic approach to marketing incorporates her vast professional experience in the music industry and the educational sector along with more than two decades of study and practice of the spirituality of India. Her innovative marketing campaigns have produced a long list of bestselling non-fiction authors. Lynn is also the Founder of the 7 Graces Project CIC, a not-for-profit social enterprise created to train, support, mentor and inspire independent business owners to market their business ethically, serve society and planet, and restore all that is best about humanity.

Marketing Tips for Self-Published Authors (Paperback): Lorraine M. Harris Marketing Tips for Self-Published Authors (Paperback)
Lorraine M. Harris
R225 Discovery Miles 2 250 Ships in 10 - 15 working days

A guide full of proven marketing tips geared for self-published authors. The tips and strategies are effective, effortless, time-saving, cheap and free marketing ideas.

The Age of Persuasion - How Marketing Ate Our Culture (Paperback): Terry O'Reilly, Mike Tennant The Age of Persuasion - How Marketing Ate Our Culture (Paperback)
Terry O'Reilly, Mike Tennant
R443 R398 Discovery Miles 3 980 Save R45 (10%) Ships in 10 - 15 working days

Consider the culture of the twenty-first century: Each morning, you hear a half-dozen ads on the radio before your feet touch the floor. By the end of the day, hundreds--perhaps thousands--of marketing messages have targeted you. And yet little is understood about how marketing affects our lives and society. Enter Terry O'Reilly and Mike Tennant, the ad men behind "The Age of Persuasion," the popular radio show broadcast on the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation and Sirius Radio. They have made it their mission to share the back-room story of modern marketing, entertaining asides and all: "Think of advertisers as millions of ants in a colony, each working hard and each with its own objective. Except that in this colony, every single ant is competing against the others. That's the ad business. Almost every ad you see, hear, and otherwise experience is competing for a piece of your imagination. And like any cross-section of humanity, the vast, worldwide advertising community is diverse: composed of geniuses and idiots, saints and buffoons, and everything in between." From the early players to the Mad Men of the 1960s and beyond, "The Age of Persuasion" provides an entertaining--and eye-opening--look at a world driven by marketing.

VIVA MAC - AIDS, Fashion, and the Philanthropic Practices of MAC Cosmetics (Paperback): Andrea Benoit VIVA MAC - AIDS, Fashion, and the Philanthropic Practices of MAC Cosmetics (Paperback)
Andrea Benoit
R687 Discovery Miles 6 870 Ships in 12 - 17 working days

The first cultural history of the iconic brand M*A*C Cosmetics, VIVA M*A*C charts the evolution of M*A*C's revolutionary corporate philanthropy around HIV/AIDS awareness. Drawing upon exclusive interviews with M*A*C co-founder Frank Toskan, key journalists, and fashion insiders, Andrea Benoit tells the fascinating story of how M*A*C's unique style of corporate social responsibility emerged from specific cultural practices, rather than being part of a strategic marketing plan. Benoit delves into the history of the M*A*C AIDS Fund and its signature VIVA GLAM fundraising lipstick, which featured drag performer RuPaul and singer k.d. lang in its first advertising campaigns. This lively chronicle reveals how M*A*C managed to not only defy the stigma associated with AIDS that alarmed many other corporations, but to engage in highly successful AIDS advocacy while maintaining its creative and fashionable authority.

Making Pictorial Print - Media Literacy and Mass Culture in British Magazines, 1885-1918 (Hardcover): Alison Hedley Making Pictorial Print - Media Literacy and Mass Culture in British Magazines, 1885-1918 (Hardcover)
Alison Hedley
R1,813 R1,465 Discovery Miles 14 650 Save R348 (19%) Ships in 12 - 17 working days

At the end of the nineteenth century, print media dominated British popular culture, produced in greater variety and on a larger scale than ever before. Within decades, new visual and auditory media had ushered in a mechanized milieu, displacing print from its position at the heart of cultural life. During this period of intense change, illustrated magazines maintained a central position in the media landscape by transforming their letterpress orientation into a visual and multimodal one. Ultimately, this transformation was important for the new media cultures of the twentieth and twenty-first centuries. Making Pictorial Print recovers this chapter in the history of new media, applying concepts from media theory and the digital humanities to analyse four popular late-Victorian magazines - the Illustrated London News, the Graphic, Pearson's Magazine, and the Strand - and the scrapbook media that appropriated them. Using the concept of media literacy, these case studies demonstrate the ways in which periodical design aesthetics affected the terms of engagement presented to readers, creating opportunities for them to participate in and even contribute to popular culture. Shaped by publishers, advertisers, and readers themselves, the pages of these periodicals document the emergence of modern mass culture as we know it and offer insight into the new media of our digital present.

Power Publicity (Paperback): Sheila Danzig Power Publicity (Paperback)
Sheila Danzig
R606 Discovery Miles 6 060 Ships in 10 - 15 working days

Recession-proof your business. Your business can grow while others fail with proven tested methods that anyone (even you ) can follow. These methods are free and almost free to implement and work in any economy

Scientific Advertising (Paperback): Claude C. Hopkins Scientific Advertising (Paperback)
Claude C. Hopkins
R201 R170 Discovery Miles 1 700 Save R31 (15%) Ships in 10 - 15 working days

Claude Hopkins, the father of modern advertising techniques, believed that "Advertising is salesmanship," and as such it should be measurable and justify the results that it produced. In Scientific Advertising, he explains precisely how to do that, and the principles he discovered and documented are as true today as when they were first written. This business classic covers mail-order marketing, headlines, psychology, strategy, budgeting, and more advanced subjects like negative advertising and how to test an advertising campaign. Whatever advertising medium you use, from print to the Internet, the fundamental principles of Scientific Advertising are universal and timeless.

Scientific Advertising - Complete and Unabridged (Paperback): Claude C. Hopkins Scientific Advertising - Complete and Unabridged (Paperback)
Claude C. Hopkins
R291 Discovery Miles 2 910 Ships in 10 - 15 working days

The time has come when advertising has in some hands reached the status of a science. It is based on fixed principles and is reasonably exact. The causes and effects have been analyzed until they are well understood. The correct method of procedure have been proved and established. We know what is most effective, and we act on basic law. Advertising, once a gamble, has thus become, under able direction, one of the safest business ventures. Certainly no other enterprise with comparable possibilities need involve so little risk. Therefore, this book deals, not with theories and opinions, but with well-proved principles and facts. It is written as a text book for students and a safe guide for advertisers. Every statement has been weighed. The book is confined to establish fundamentals.

The Fall of PR & the Rise of Advertising (Paperback): Stefan Engeseth The Fall of PR & the Rise of Advertising (Paperback)
Stefan Engeseth; Foreword by Al Ries
R350 R295 Discovery Miles 2 950 Save R55 (16%) Ships in 10 - 15 working days

Move business forward and drag Top Management along with you Al Ries' best selling book, The Fall of Advertising and the Rise of PR, shook the advertising industry to the bone. The advertising world was outraged. When Ries argued that advertising just wasn't working any more, he had struck a nerve. Advertising was simply not changing with the times. Half a decade later, things have come full circle. PR is now finding its credibility in the intensive care unit. Stefan Engeseth gives the PR business the same treatment. The Fall of PR & the Rise of Advertising, with a foreword by Al Ries, analyses the enormous changes in the media landscape in PR, advertising and everything in between. Stefan Engeseth's books, Detective Marketing and ONE, have firmly established him as one of today's most refreshing business thinkers. In his latest book, The Fall of PR & the Rise of Advertising, he shows how advertising has redefined itself and re-emerged as a force to be reckoned with. Written in his trade mark, funny, original and provocative style, the book adds whole new dimensions to the business world.

Secrets of Great Advertising (Paperback): Secrets of Great Advertising (Paperback)
R164 Discovery Miles 1 640 Ships in 12 - 17 working days
Readings in Advertising, Society, and Consumer Culture (Hardcover): Roxanne Hovland, Joyce M. Wolburg, Eric E. Haley Readings in Advertising, Society, and Consumer Culture (Hardcover)
Roxanne Hovland, Joyce M. Wolburg, Eric E. Haley
R763 Discovery Miles 7 630 Ships in 12 - 17 working days

This collection of classic and contemporary articles provides context for the study of advertising by exploring the historical, economic, and ideological factors that spawned the development of a consumer culture. It begins with articles that take an institutional and historical perspective to provide background for approaching the social and ethical concerns that evolve around advertising. Subsequent sections then address the legal and economic consequences of life in a material culture; the regulation of advertising in a culture that weighs free speech against the needs of society; and the ethics of promoting materialism to consumers. The concluding section includes links to a variety of resources such as trade association codes of ethics, standards and guidelines for particular types of advertising, and information about self-regulatory organizations.

Fake News - Understanding Media and Misinformation in the Digital Age (Paperback): Melissa Zimdars, Kembrew McLeod Fake News - Understanding Media and Misinformation in the Digital Age (Paperback)
Melissa Zimdars, Kembrew McLeod
R1,058 R966 Discovery Miles 9 660 Save R92 (9%) Ships in 9 - 15 working days

New perspectives on the misinformation ecosystem that is the production and circulation of fake news. What is fake news? Is it an item on Breitbart, an article in The Onion, an outright falsehood disseminated via Russian bot, or a catchphrase used by a politician to discredit a story he doesn't like? This book examines the real fake news: the constant flow of purposefully crafted, sensational, emotionally charged, misleading or totally fabricated information that mimics the form of mainstream news. Rather than viewing fake news through a single lens, the book maps the various kinds of misinformation through several different disciplinary perspectives, taking into account the overlapping contexts of politics, technology, and journalism. The contributors consider topics including fake news as "disorganized" propaganda; folkloric falsehood in the "Pizzagate" conspiracy; native advertising as counterfeit news; the limitations of regulatory reform and technological solutionism; Reddit's enabling of fake news; the psychological mechanisms by which people make sense of information; and the evolution of fake news in America. A section on media hoaxes and satire features an oral history of and an interview with prankster-activists the Yes Men, famous for parodies that reveal hidden truths. Finally, contributors consider possible solutions to the complex problem of fake news-ways to mitigate its spread, to teach students to find factually accurate information, and to go beyond fact-checking. Contributors Mark Andrejevic, Benjamin Burroughs, Nicholas Bowman, Mark Brewin, Elizabeth Cohen, Colin Doty, Dan Faltesek, Johan Farkas, Cherian George, Tarleton Gillespie, Dawn R. Gilpin, Gina Giotta, Theodore Glasser, Amanda Ann Klein, Paul Levinson, Adrienne Massanari, Sophia A. McClennen, Kembrew McLeod, Panagiotis Takis Metaxas, Paul Mihailidis, Benjamin Peters, Whitney Phillips, Victor Pickard, Danielle Polage, Stephanie Ricker Schulte, Leslie-Jean Thornton, Anita Varma, Claire Wardle, Melissa Zimdars, Sheng Zou

How to Get Paid $73,150.00 for Only Mailing 1,000 Letters! (Paperback): T. J. Rohleder, Chris Lakey How to Get Paid $73,150.00 for Only Mailing 1,000 Letters! (Paperback)
T. J. Rohleder, Chris Lakey
R388 Discovery Miles 3 880 Ships in 10 - 15 working days

Forget everything you know about traditional Internet-based Affiliate Programs. Inside this breakthrough book, the authors explain their secret to setting up your own powerful Affiliate Mailing Program. You'll follow along as they reveal how they set up their 3-Tier Affiliate Mailing Program. Their Affiliates have the potential to make $73,150.00 for only mailing 1,000 letters. They give you the step by step instructions needed to successfully set up and operate your own Affiliate Mailing Program.

Strategic Advertising Management (Paperback, 6th Revised edition): Larry Percy, Richard Rosenbaum-Elliott Strategic Advertising Management (Paperback, 6th Revised edition)
Larry Percy, Richard Rosenbaum-Elliott
R1,712 Discovery Miles 17 120 Ships in 9 - 15 working days

Strategic Advertising Management provides the firm foundation you need to understand the effective strategic planning of advertising and other marketing communications. Renowned experts in the field, the authors draw on their extensive experience to present the essential principles of communication that demonstrate how advertising works. Using real world examples and 16 new case studies featuring a variety of international brands and companies such as Dutch bike rental service Swapfiet, US airline JetBlue, and British car manufacturer Jaguar, this is a resource you can trust to clearly illustrate how strategic advertising operates in a global economy. With added coverage on social media, viral, and online advertising throughout, and a dedicated chapter on digital media, Strategic Advertising Management continues to offer the most current, comprehensive and complete guide to the rapidly evolving landscape of the advertising industry. Digital formats and resources The sixth edition is available for students and institutions to purchase in a variety of formats, and is supported by online resources. - The ebook offers a mobile experience and convenient access along with functionality tools, navigation features, and links that offer extra learning support: www.oxfordtextbooks.co.uk/ebooks This book is accompanied by the following online resources: For students: Flashcard glossary Additional questions Further reading Web links Video links to adverts exemplifying strategies discussed in the book, short films from advertising companies and relevant documentaries For lecturers: Case study source links Suggested case histories from World Advertising Research Council Suggested classroom exercises PowerPoint slides Figures, tables, and adverts from the textbookWeb links

Marketing: A Very Short Introduction (Paperback): Kenneth Le Meunier-FitzHugh Marketing: A Very Short Introduction (Paperback)
Kenneth Le Meunier-FitzHugh
R210 Discovery Miles 2 100 Ships in 12 - 17 working days

Very Short Introductions: Brilliant, Sharp, Inspiring Marketing is pivotal in today's world. Used for determining and satisfying the needs of the customer, it stands at the interface between an organisation and its environment. Marketing provides customer and competitor information to the organisation, as well as creating awareness of the company's offering. As globalization creates increasing challenges to established marketing practices, marketing efforts need to reposition and adapt continuously to maintain an organisation's ability to reach potential customers. This Very Short Introduction provides a general overview of the function and importance of marketing to modern organisations. Kenneth Le Meunier-FitzHugh discusses how marketing remains central to creating competitive advantage, and why it needs to be forward looking and constantly reinventing itself in line with new developments in the marketplace, such as the growth of social media, and the importance of ethics and responsible marketing. He shows how this has led to the role of marketing expanding beyond advertising and promotion, encompassing a broader sense of customer relationship management. He also considers how marketers need to remain able to manage the marketing mix in response to their understanding of customer's purchasing habits. ABOUT THE SERIES: The Very Short Introductions series from Oxford University Press contains hundreds of titles in almost every subject area. These pocket-sized books are the perfect way to get ahead in a new subject quickly. Our expert authors combine facts, analysis, perspective, new ideas, and enthusiasm to make interesting and challenging topics highly readable.

Advertising Management (Hardcover): Jafar Mahmud Advertising Management (Hardcover)
Jafar Mahmud
R595 Discovery Miles 5 950 Ships in 12 - 17 working days
Spin - Politics and Marketing in a Divided Age (Paperback, New edition): Clive Veroni Spin - Politics and Marketing in a Divided Age (Paperback, New edition)
Clive Veroni
R362 Discovery Miles 3 620 Ships in 12 - 17 working days

Spin has been updated with a new introduction reflecting on the current era of Brexit and Trump. Aided by masses of data, sophisticated computer modelling, and smart manipulation of social media, political strategists are reshaping the way voters think. And act. Clive Veroni analyzes the inner workings of campaign organizations to show how they build and motivate teams, and how they approach strategic and future planning. And those strategies being used to influence our choices at the ballot box will soon be used to influence our choices in the grocery store. Spin focuses on the well-known characters from the worlds of politics and marketing to reveal how all of us will be affected by the surprising new ways in which companies and politicians will try to persuade us to vote for their brands.

The Art of Advertising (Paperback): The Art of Advertising (Paperback)
R116 Discovery Miles 1 160 Ships in 12 - 17 working days
Marketing South African Tourism  (Paperback, 2nd Revised edition): Richard George Marketing South African Tourism (Paperback, 2nd Revised edition)
Richard George
R813 Discovery Miles 8 130 Ships in 12 - 17 working days

Marketing South African tourism is an introduction to marketing in the tourism industry written from a southern African perspective. This text on the role of the tourism marketer in southern Africa focuses on all the major areas of marketing, using real-life, current examples drawn from a range of southern African tourism companies. The title includes a directory of secondary tourism data resources, discussion questions, practical exercises, and a companion instructor's book for teachers.

A Word from Our Sponsor - Admen, Advertising, and the Golden Age of Radio (Hardcover): Cynthia B. Meyers A Word from Our Sponsor - Admen, Advertising, and the Golden Age of Radio (Hardcover)
Cynthia B. Meyers
R2,612 R2,361 Discovery Miles 23 610 Save R251 (10%) Ships in 12 - 17 working days

The behind-the-scenes story of how admen and sponsors helped shape broadcasting into a popular commercial entertainment medium.
During the "golden age" of radio, from roughly the late 1920s until the late 1940s, advertising agencies were arguably the most important sources of radio entertainment. Most nationally broadcast programs on network radio were created, produced, written, and/or managed by advertising agencies: for example, J. Walter Thompson produced "Kraft Music Hall" for Kraft; Benton & Bowles oversaw "Show Boat" for Maxwell House Coffee; and Young & Rubicam managed "Town Hall Tonight" with comedian Fred Allen for Bristol-Myers. Yet this fact has disappeared from popular memory and receives little attention from media scholars and historians. By repositioning the advertising industry as a central agent in the development of broadcasting, author Cynthia B. Meyers challenges conventional views about the role of advertising in culture, the integration of media industries, and the role of commercialism in broadcasting history.
Based largely on archival materials, A Word from Our Sponsor mines agency records from the J. Walter Thompson papers at Duke University, which include staff meeting transcriptions, memos, and account histories; agency records of BBDO, Benton & Bowles, Young & Rubicam, and N. W. Ayer; contemporaneous trade publications; and the voluminous correspondence between NBC and agency executives in the NBC Records at the Wisconsin Historical Society.
Mediating between audiences' desire for entertainment and advertisers' desire for sales, admen combined "showmanship" with "salesmanship" to produce a uniquely American form of commercial culture. In recounting the history of this form, Meyers enriches and corrects our understanding not only of broadcasting history but also of advertising history, business history, and American cultural history from the 1920s to the 1940s.

A Word from Our Sponsor - Admen, Advertising, and the Golden Age of Radio (Paperback): Cynthia B. Meyers A Word from Our Sponsor - Admen, Advertising, and the Golden Age of Radio (Paperback)
Cynthia B. Meyers
R839 Discovery Miles 8 390 Ships in 12 - 17 working days

The behind-the-scenes story of how admen and sponsors helped shape broadcasting into a popular commercial entertainment medium.
During the "golden age" of radio, from roughly the late 1920s until the late 1940s, advertising agencies were arguably the most important sources of radio entertainment. Most nationally broadcast programs on network radio were created, produced, written, and/or managed by advertising agencies: for example, J. Walter Thompson produced "Kraft Music Hall" for Kraft; Benton & Bowles oversaw "Show Boat" for Maxwell House Coffee; and Young & Rubicam managed "Town Hall Tonight" with comedian Fred Allen for Bristol-Myers. Yet this fact has disappeared from popular memory and receives little attention from media scholars and historians. By repositioning the advertising industry as a central agent in the development of broadcasting, author Cynthia B. Meyers challenges conventional views about the role of advertising in culture, the integration of media industries, and the role of commercialism in broadcasting history.
Based largely on archival materials, A Word from Our Sponsor mines agency records from the J. Walter Thompson papers at Duke University, which include staff meeting transcriptions, memos, and account histories; agency records of BBDO, Benton & Bowles, Young & Rubicam, and N. W. Ayer; contemporaneous trade publications; and the voluminous correspondence between NBC and agency executives in the NBC Records at the Wisconsin Historical Society.
Mediating between audiences' desire for entertainment and advertisers' desire for sales, admen combined "showmanship" with "salesmanship" to produce a uniquely American form of commercial culture. In recounting the history of this form, Meyers enriches and corrects our understanding not only of broadcasting history but also of advertising history, business history, and American cultural history from the 1920s to the 1940s.

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