Är du höstens nya copystjärna?

by Per Robert Öhlin on August 21, 2011

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Har du någon gång tvivlat på dig själv som skribent? Har du upplevt att orden sviker dig när du behöver dem som mest? Har du svårt för att komma igång? Svårt att få idéer? Veta vad som ska strykas? Finna den rätta närvaron? Söka dig under läsarens radar och röra vid läsarens innersta strängar?

Du är inte ensam. Det är frågor som de flesta skribenter ställer sig då och då. Men den erfarna skribenten har en insikter och verktyg för att hitta ut ur problemet.

Den nittonde september startar min nya copykurs på distans i Batteris regi. Vi börjar med ett frivilligt seminarium i Stockholm och redan på kvällen får du ditt första kursbrev. Efter tio veckors hårdkörning vet du om du är höstens nya copystjärna. Läs mer om kursen på Batteri.se.

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Want to be happy, rich, successful?

by Per Robert Öhlin on February 28, 2011

stop pursuing your goals, achieve them indirectly

Stop pursuing your goals. In his book, »Obliquity«, by John Kay presents an idea that flies in the face of corporate practice and process thinking. Kay claims that goals are best achieved not directly, but indirectly. And this is relevant not only in business, but in all areas of life.

The most profitable companies are not the most aggressive profit-chasers. The wealthiest men and women are not the most materialistic. And the happiest people do not pursue happiness in itself. The goals are mostly reached as a spin off from something else: meaning.

Kay leans toward six creative attitudes towards problem solving and life in general.

”Muddling through”. By this he stresses the importance of approaching a dilemma in a non-rational, intuitive way but at the same time according to some kind of plan. Hm… this sound familiar… Ah, yes! In my book, »Let’s get gorgeous«, I wrote something like this: Fix your eyes to the top (a higher purpose) and follow your instincts like a curious fool. In a zig-zag way. Like a child wandering about, devoted and wide-eyed, disrespectful, foolhardy and reinvestigative.

Pluralism. In the business world people tend to think that there is only one solution to a problem. This is wrong, there are more than one answer to a problem.

Interaction. The outcome has more to do with the question ?Why?” than ”What?”. Problem is, in a process-obsessed world the former is much harder to find an answer to than the latter. You can read my more about it here.

Incompleteness. We like to think that we know enough about the nature of our problem. But we rarely do.

Abstraction. Models are always imperfect descriptions of reality. And should therefore be handled with suspicion.

Complexity. The world is far too complex to understand and manage.

Well, what can I say? Kay is one of the few economist who understand the creative mind.

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Konsten att skriva ord som fäster.

by Per Robert Öhlin on February 11, 2011

An expression of an early Hummer idea

I reklambranschen finns människor med många olika bakgrunder. Gemensamt för framgångsrika kreatörer är förmågan att överskrida gränser och trotsa normer, som det så fint brukar heta. Framförallt handlar det om att låta tankarna få ta den väg de själva vill ta, som du tillät dem när du var liten, utan att ditt nitiska, kritiska sinne slår larm och föser tillbaka dem till det normala igen.

En idé blir pratbar först när den kläs i ord. Det är i det här nakna stadiet vi bedömer dem och väljer att förkasta eller vidareutveckla dem.

An expression of an early Burger King idea

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En sann historia.

by Per Robert Öhlin on February 6, 2011

It's spring and I'm blind

En man satt på en trottoar i New York. Framför sig hade han en låda med några mynt och bredvid den fanns en skylt med de handtextade orden »I’m blind«.

En copywriter stannade upp och började prata med mannen. Han sade: Read the full article

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Är det här relevant reklam för choklad?

by Per Robert Öhlin on January 19, 2011

Hur fungerar filmen? Vad kommer att hända i folks tankar och känslor när de ser den? Och ännu viktigare, kommer den att sälja mer av Cadbury’s chokladkakor?

Som professionell copywriter förväntas du kunna svara på frågor som dessa. Och det snabbt. Särskilt när du själv står bakom idén.

Är du det minsta osäker kan jag rekommendera min nya distanskurs i copywriting.

Kursen, Professionell Copywriter, drivs i Batteris regi. Det är en idé- och skrivkurs som sträcker sig över tio veckor och vänder sig till dig som vill vässa förmågan att skriva reklam för tv, radio, print, digitala medier, direktreklam, butiker, pr, säljbrev, kund- och medlemstidningar, samt att forma dynamiska varumärkesmanifest.

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Varför är det här bra reklam?

by Per Robert Öhlin on January 11, 2011

Professionell copywriting med Per Robert Öhlin

Anmäl dig till min nya distanskurs i copywriting så får du veta mer.

Professionell Copywriter är en distanskurs över tio veckor i Batteris regi. Read the full article

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The Santa brand.

December 26, 2010

Jesus, I had no idea. I’ve been heavily manipulated during the last weeks. I guess you have too. All my actions have been forecasted and meticulously planned out by a red, powerful force. And it’ suddenly dawned on me that I haven’t been celebrating christmas at all. I’ve had a brand experience. It’s called *Santa*. [...]

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Luke Sullivan: Great CDs are almost always great people, too.

December 14, 2010

Recently I posted an article about brutal creative directors. My advice was to get your book out there as fast as you can. Now, if I may, a few words on what I think makes a good creative director. I once read that a coach’s main job is to love his players. I think the [...]

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Finally, someone who has the guts to say it.

December 9, 2010

Digital stuff has been bugging me as long as I can remember. But I’ve always felt ashamed to admit it. Imagine my relief when I found a link on Twitter from Brandoholic about Steve Wozniak talking openly about his frustration with tech, and his hesitations about a tech-dominated society. Here’s an excerpt from an article [...]

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Ruthless slayers of advertising.

November 22, 2010

I‘m tired of hearing people proclaiming the death of advertising. My guess is I’m not the only one. Truth to be told, the grim reapers of this industry have been around since Don Draper wore diapers, predicting the future with the finesse of an elephant in ballet slippers. First, what is advertising? It’s the art [...]

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Tore Claesson: Viral is not a strategy. It’s a lottery.

November 11, 2010

Apple’s famous 1984 TV spot reached around 38,000,000 eyeballs watching the Superbowl the only day it ran. YouTube has added  5,879,629 viewers since, (as of November 1, 2010). Nike “write the future” has to date 21,350,482 views . That’s almost 4 times more than Apple’s 16 year old TV spot. On YouTube. But also way [...]

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Nyttigt flum från Mattias Östmar.

November 9, 2010

Mattias är en av få, förutom mig själv, som utgår från Ken Wilbers integrerade teorier. Fast vi förklarar på lite olika vis. Det här är Mattias version, del 1. Om hur man gör budskap intressanta och hur man når framgång i sociala medier.

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The brain is not a video recorder.

November 8, 2010

Yesterday I decided to watch an old favourite. ”Bagdad Café”. A Percy Adlon film. Starring Marianne Sägebrächt, CCH Pounder and Jack Palance. If you missed it, this is a cult movie from 1987, about ”the little café just around the bend”, set in the desert not far from Las Vegas. I wanted to relive this [...]

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Dave Trott: What works v what doesn’t.

November 1, 2010

My wife is Chinese, her religion is Taoist. In Taoism, clairvoyance is accepted as quite a normal thing. But I’m from East London. So I was brought up to believe it’s mumbo jumbo. In fact, anything that didn’t obey conventional, ordinary working-class English standards was just superstition. When we started going out together, Cathy asked [...]

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MINI lets you be a kid again.

October 28, 2010

This morning I came close to being run over by a crazy woman, running like a Kenyan on speed, with her eyes glued to her iPhone. She was soon followed by a bunch of other maniacs, including a bloke in a wheel-chair, all running and stumbling, with their eyes wide open. What’s this all about?, [...]

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What type of creative person are you?

October 24, 2010

Are you a stumbler, a madman, or a lover? Read the following piece from my new book on creativity, “The mental orgasm”, and find out. Creativity is nothing less than a mystery. It’s as profound and complex as life itself. So enigmatic, in fact, that the great artists themselves cannot agree on what it is. [...]

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