The Michel Fortin Blog

So, if you're following the commandments, you should now have a unique name, possibly a tagline, and established yourself as the first or leader in your unique category. What about the service or product you offer? Do you offer an extraordinary...

Core expansion is far different than extension. Extension is often referred to as franchising, licensing, line extension, or branching out -- also known as conglomerating. In this context, I am referring to expansion by division. If you're a...

In the second commandment, you learned that you should be the leader in your category or in your unique area of expertise. Now you need to be known as such. And one of the most effective ways to do this is through publicity. I met a fellow once...

Long, scrolling salesletters are dying. It’s a fact. There are two main reasons for this. Remember, I said an evolution and a revolution are currently taking place. And both of these are contributing to the death of the salesletter. The...

With “user-driven copy,” the fact is, people can choose what they want, how they want it and when they want it. And that is what’s working really well right now, not because it’s new but because it’s natural. The progression of the web...

The competent advertising man must understand psychology. The more he knows about it the better. He must learn that certain effects lead to certain reactions, and use that knowledge to increase results and avoid mistakes. Human nature is...

Remember the people you address are selfish, as we all are. They care nothing about your interests or profit. They seek service for themselves. Ignoring this fact is a common mistake and a costly mistake in advertising. Ads say in effect, "Buy my...

John: First in the men's room down the hall, it was just hilarious. I folded up my, I closed up my briefcase and I thought well, we're not going to get anything done today and Albert, you know, bless his soul, stood up, pushed the secretaries gently...

Takeaway selling, for the uninitiated, is a way to limit the supply of a product or service in some way to increase scarcity of an offer. Because it's a proven fact that scarcity sells. It's that ageless law of supply and demand. The less the...