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For the simple statement, this is one of the most difficult thing for people to do. It goes back to our survival instinct fucking each born. If the animals draw attention to themselves in the wild may soon even the main course next meal larger animals. That the fear of chewing and spitting all survived millions of years of evolution, and we are still alive and well in today’s business world.

Fight or flight instincts of the other many of us have not learned to manipulate. It is easier to escape from a new idea to stay and fight instead. With the mentality of the leadership-by-committee this time and the intense public scrutiny, the simplest solution is unfortunately the most popular. These companies often lose the forest through the trees. They tend to be so much on short-term profits that they use to make investments or opportunities that promise long-term benefits, since they require not only focus short-term losses.

It may also be argued that fighting for a new idea—whether that means pushing for the development of a new product, staving off competitors or supporting a slumping brand rather than letting it die—is usually undesirable because of such costs.

Certainly that might be true in the short term, but in the long run, giving up too soon my actually cost your company far more in lost revenues, public outrage or shrinking market share. It requires a different way of thinking. Advertising and promoting your business is an investment in your business’ future. Investments are not mere costs. They come with a benefit.

Let’s get one thing straight from the very beginning. No company ever dominated its industry by operating with a philosophy of fear. And, ultimately, no company can survive if it doesn’t learn to conquer its fear and take chances, make changes.

It is the ability to see past any short-term problems to the bigger, long-term picture that has fueled the meteoric rise of the world’s most successful companies. Nobody knew what Apple was before its history making 1985 Super Bowl commercial.

Apple paid to run that commercial only once, but it ran again hundreds of times around the country and the world during local and national news broadcasts. Stories about Apple and its commercial were front-page news for weeks.

When it comes to advertising, you might wonder what kinds of changes are needed. After all, it’s just advertising. If your ads look like your competitors’ ads, if your messages are strikingly similar, if you talk to yourself instead of your customers, if you worry more about your logo being large enough than the message being attention-getting enough, you need to change.

Now this is just the first step, so we won’t get into any more detail here. The object of this step is to let you know that you need to screw up your courage and prepare to make some changes in your advertising that will have a profound effect on your bottom line.

Fear is the greatest motivator. However, instead of motivating people to act, it usually causes people to freeze or retreat. It takes courage to make the kinds of changes that are needed to survive in today’s crowded, complicated and competitive business environment.

Conquer your fear. Be courageous.•

This article introduced the first of Jeff Berney’s “Twelve Steps to Creating Breakthrough Advertising Campaigns: A creative philosophy to help companies recover from years of playing it safe.” Challenge yourself, your staff and your advertising agency to make a revolutionary transformation of your advertising program. And, remember, even the largest revolution begins with just one step—the first.

Jeff Berney is a freelance idealist, brand evangelist and writer

Okay, a few things to say before I start working. First, it is important to me that I practice, I try as much as possible to preach. This is not always the case and for which I sometimes do not satisfy me. In this sense, I am someone who believes in open communication. I do not know how ulterior motives. I also believe in the good in people and try to man the benefit of the doubt. I also think that people believe in, then the risks must be taken into account that mutual respect has a chance to grow. In that sense, I will take a risk and hope that no one hurt, but respect my goals and try not to destroy it.

Objective: I want to create words and have accepted it into the Oxford English Dictionary. There are several criteria that are necessary to meet, to successfully enter a word in the OED is, you can do it yourself, but I think I have the strategy and said everything was ready. What I believe is that what I will share about me are not made by others, so that instead of the old dream I had. I’ll tell you my idea and I hope to be that you appreciate it, but it remains my ideas to pursue and turn into reality.

One of the criteria for the OED is that a word with a similar definition does not exist.  Or in other words, there must be need for the word.  That’s tough, but I think I have it.  The English language has no word that means “A person or thing that is one’s least preferred.  A person or thing that is one’s most hated.”  This is essentially the opposite of “favorite”.  We can get the idea across, but we have no single word that encapsulates “most hated” with the efficiency that “favorite” has for “most preferred or loved”.  The word I think can solve this linguistic gap is “malrite”.

This surprises me, as languages tend to develop words that they need to express.  It seems to me that in the history of English speaking countries there has been enough broad aggression and localized apathy, jealously and maliciousness to have a need to create this word.  But, I began to doubt the need for such a word, until I began looking into online advertising techniques.
Aside from my personal psychotic ranting on online advertising techniques, I wasn’t really sure what the general public felt about the issue and I certainly wasn’t sure if the industry itself gave any consideration to it.  Then I ran across an article headlined “The Most Hated Advertising Techniques”.  Wow, if there ever was reason to recharge my pursuit of “malrite”,  I have found it.  This was an article that looked into a study that examined people’s malrite aspects of online advertising.  But, the whole thing played itself out awkwardly as it lacked an appropriate word to describe the disgust, disdain and hatred felt by the study’s volunteers.  This article indicated to me that the fact of the matter is that in life we all have our favorite and malrite things, and we need to be able to articulate that.