Advertising can't correct your company's problems. As my dear, sweet, saintly old grandmother, Fanny McKay, used to say: "Wishin' don't make it so, and neither do massive amounts of gross ratings points."

Today brought to conclusion a 26 week test that further proves this point.

Here are the facts:

• The advertiser is a gentleman who came out of retirement to operate a small service business.
• He truly is a craftsman.
• He doesn't intend to work many hours. He's open from 9:30 am to 2:00 pm, and never open on weekends.
• He didn't spend much to buy the business, possibly because of its location.
• He has a horrid location.
• We wrote good ads, and explained that the odd hours were the price you paid for the excellent quality of his work at his price, which is much lower than anyone would expect.
• The ads were voiced by a well-known and
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  Advertising can't correct your company's problems. As my dear, sweet, saintly old grandmother, Fanny McKay, used to say: "Wishin' don't make it so, and neither do massive amounts of gross ratings points."

  Today brought to conclusion a 26 week test that further proves this point.

  Here are the facts:

  • The advertiser is a gentleman who came out of retirement to operate a small service business.
  • He truly is a craftsman.
  • He doesn't intend to work many hours. He's open from 9:30 am to 2:00 pm, and never open on weekends.
  • He didn't spend much to buy the business, possibly because of its location.
  • He has a horrid location.
  • We wrote good ads, and explained that the odd hours were the price you paid for the excellent quality of his work at his price, which is much lower than anyone would expect.
  • The ads were voiced by a well-known an
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    Today brought to conclusion a 26 week test that further proves this point.

    Here are the facts:

    • The advertiser is a gentleman who came out of retirement to operate a small service business.
    • He truly is a craftsman.
    • He doesn't intend to work many hours. He's open from 9:30 am to 2:00 pm, and never open on weekends.
    • He didn't spend much to buy the business, possibly because of its location.
    • He has a horrid location.
    • We wrote good ads, and explained that the odd hours were the price you paid for the excellent quality of his work at his price, which is much lower than anyone would expect.
    • The ads were voiced by a well-known an
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    • He doesn't intend to work many hours. He's open from 9:30 am to 2:00 pm, and never open on weekends.
    • He didn't spend much to buy the business, possibly because of its location.
    • He has a horrid location.
    • We wrote good ads, and explained that the odd hours were the price you paid for the excellent quality of his work at his price, which is much lower than anyone would expect.
    • The ads were voiced by a well-known an
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    • We wrote good ads, and explained that the odd hours were the price you paid for the excellent quality of his work at his price, which is much lower than anyone would expect.
    • The ads were voiced by a well-known and loved local personality.
    • The client received over 400 exposures a month, equally rotated through all of the station's dayparts.

    And at the conclusion of six months, and well over 2,400 ads being played to this station's audience, the advertiser had no improvement in business. None. Nada. Zilch.

    Should we be surprised? That a service business in a bad location with hours that most customers couldn't keep, didn't see those people changing their lives to do business on his terms?