What's on this PowerPoint menu? A healthy helping of my general writing experience covering advertising, promotion, retail, finance, industrial, electronic, audio visual, humor, you name it. Digest and enjoy
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Jim Ardito General Menu
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3. Inventive Concepts You can see right through this effort to bring a “back-of-the comic-book style” to a rep training booklet on Nasonex. It came complete with x-ray glasses, but they didn’t really work. The idea did though. Reps read it cover to cover.
4. Super Web Sites to Explore Like this one that launched Promius Pharma Inc. The challenge here was to launch a company and a product using branding and a creative platform that captured Promius Pharma’s dedication to innovation and its unlimited potential. For the answer we turned to a Tangram, a Chinese puzzle with pieces that can be rearranged to form an infinite variety of geometric shapes. The company, like the puzzle, offers unlimited possibilities (Check it out)
5. To see how this campaign took off on the Web site I wrote—with glorious flash animation — google Promius Pharma and click on the name
6. Hard-driving Advertising Here’s a consumer ad with a headline I love. So did my plastic surgeon client who turned the ad into a billboard. The headline made the transition from stopping newspaper readers in their tracks to just plain stopping traffic.
7. Here’s a B2B ad with a headline right out of the game show, Jeopardy. What’s the question? Name the three types of personalities you need to run a successful ad agency?
8. A Healthy Helping of Healthcare No buts about it, when it comes to healthcare, I’ve done heaps of it, like this direct mail campaign for Analpram, a product prescribed by OB-GYNs and other docs for the relief of hemorrhoids. This peachy concept won national awards.
9. Complete Devotion to Promotion Here’s something delightfully loony for Sara Lee. For years, I’ve had the privilege of working with Haugaard Creative, one of the top promotional/marketing firms in Chicago.
10. And let’s not forget several Happy Meal boxes I wrote for Mickey D’s. I was lovin’ it.
11. Burger King got so jealous, I ended up writing 25 of these boxes (5 separate series) for them
12. Truly One-of-a-Kind Training Tools Like product training delivered via a murder mystery How do you get sales reps to read 90 pages of boring facts about a potassium supplement? Package all the training in a murder mystery as compelling as a John Grisham novel. Whodunnit? Yours truly, working with graphic designer Fred Knapp, in New Jersey who gave it a 50s’ murder-mystery feel.
13. The Right Writer for Journalism But really by Jim Ardito Spirited articles, newsletters, blogs If you actually read this article I wrote for the CEO of Purohit Navigation, you’ll see what I mean by spirited wordsmithing. It’s an honor to ghost-write for top execs and other corporate thought-leaders. I craft each piece to reflect their personal style, syntax and diction. The more brilliant they seem, the more I beam cause I’ve done my job.
14. We threw away the script when it came to this breakthrough newsletter for Eisai Pharmaceuticals.
15. It’s been one heck of a journey so far with many awards along the way, but the greatest reward of all is a relationship with a client/partner that grows and lasts for years. It would be an honor to begin a rewarding journey with you!