Can a good marketer successfully promote anything? Even a chrome dome?
Sometimes advertising poses seemingly insurmountable challenges, like marketing yet another miracle ab machine or pushing products doomed by a bad name, bad timing---or that are just flat-out wrong.
On the other hand, isn't it a poor marketer who blames the product? Our David T. Jones is the glass-half-full type who stands ready to fearlessly promote what looks to be a really hard sell---baldness. We wish him luck; making a smooth head seem cool will work better for me than stuff like this.
So take that wig-hat off your head and check out the full cartoon after the jump.
David T. Jones is the creator of Ad Land and chief creative officer at Third Street, an "attention agency" that he co-founded in 2009 after a long career at FCB Chicago. Ad Land has been featured in AdWeek magazine, beaucoup blogs and the book, The Creative Process Illustrated. Follow David on Twitter.
