{"id":13313,"date":"2012-10-29T00:01:05","date_gmt":"2012-10-29T07:01:05","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/danoday.com\/blog\/?p=13313"},"modified":"2012-10-30T20:11:20","modified_gmt":"2012-10-31T03:11:20","slug":"inane-radio-commercial","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/danoday.com\/blog\/2012\/10\/inane-radio-commercial\/","title":{"rendered":"FINALIST, INANE RADIO COMMERCIAL COPYWRITING OF THE YEAR"},"content":{"rendered":"

Thom Whetson<\/strong><\/span> submitted this a while ago. Finally I have time to share it with you:<\/p>\n

“Great moments in advertising: A radio local station is running nicely done spots for businesses to ‘use VMware to virtualize their server needs.'”<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Radio advertising solves problems.<\/p>\n

Very few people in that station’s listening audience awakened this morning thinking, “By golly, I’ve just got<\/strong> to virtualize our company’s server needs!”<\/em><\/p>\n

Thom kindly explained that “virtualizing your server needs” = “paying only for the computing power you need.”<\/p>\n

Oh! I’m sure there are<\/strong> business owners in his market who are thinking, “We need to upgrade to a more powerful computer system, but I just don’t see how we can afford it.”<\/em><\/p>\n

Too bad the commercial didn’t say anything like that….<\/p>\n

P.S. Although I’ve haven’t formally announced it yet, I’ve just opened registration to my annual Radio Copywriting Masters class<\/strong><\/a>. Limited to just 12 attendees. Are you (or is your employer) serious enough about producing results from the radio campaigns you create?<\/p>\n

Here’s the radio copywriting class<\/a> video.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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