Slides for talk at Forefront, Leeds, on Wednesday 26 November 2014 on considering the work of marketers in the 1930s to help us create more meaningful 'users' to create products round, by observing real people.
8. People preferred headlines
that spoke directly to them.
And then lots of copy that told them a story. Not
something like Once Upon a Time there was three
bears: a daddy bear, a mummy bear, and a baby
bear. A story that told them about a product and
what the product could bring to their lives that
they didn’t already have.