Author Archives: Roy H. Williams
Failure: The Key To Success?
A Monday Morning Memo from The Wizard of Ads If you don’t have a few failures, you’re not taking enough chances. Nobody can be right all the time, and the big companies didn’t become big by “playing it safe”. So goes the cover story in the May issue of Fortune magazine. Here’s a summary: “Sergio &hellip Continue reading
Escape the Dungeon of Depression
A Monday Morning Memo from The Wizard of Ads “I have made a captive of myself and put me into a dungeon, and now I cannot find the key to let myself out.” Nathaniel Hawthorne “As the lack of sleep wore me down, a sense of hopelessness enveloped me. I knew that nothing I did &hellip Continue reading
Ernie and Laurine
A Monday Morning Memo from The Wizard of Ads “Just as I was to enter the 7th grade at St. Mel’s I was stricken with rheumatic fever and was confined to bed for almost a year and was in a wheelchair for another. When my physician heard that a tutor had been employed for me, &hellip Continue reading
Emily Lives Inside Herself
A Monday Morning Memo from The Wizard of Ads Born into a wealthy family in 1830, Emily has her photograph taken at the age of 18, then lives a remarkably uneventful life until she quietly passes at the age of 55. It will be the only photograph ever made of her. Incredibly shy, Emily asks &hellip Continue reading
Eighty Pair, All Colors
A Monday Morning Memo from The Wizard of Ads Inside my boots today, one sock is black and the other is a pale shade of green. That’s why I’m wearing the boots. I’m wearing the socks because they are the only clean ones I own. A number of weeks ago, I made a grand speech &hellip Continue reading
Do People Hear More Than You Say?
A Monday Morning Memo from The Wizard of Ads “That’s a really great toupee you’re wearing. Where did you get it?” “I’ve always liked pants like those. Are they coming back in style?” “Are you always this funny when you’re drunk?” Even though the speaker didn’t actually say, “That toupee isn’t fooling anyone, those pants &hellip Continue reading
Don’t Get Your Panties in a Bind
One of the More Unusual Monday Morning Memos Friends with important degrees from important universities are often outraged when they learn that I charge a lot of money for the benefit of my private observations. When I cheerfully and openly admit to these friends that I do, indeed, fabricate all that I know, or think &hellip Continue reading
Does Your Ad Dog Bite? (Or Is It Just A Show Dog?)
A Monday Morning Memo from The Wizard of Ads Most ad campaigns have no teeth. Heavy with style but light on substance, these toothless campaigns remind me of the little Pekingese dog that sits on every Grandmother’s porch. “Bark, Bark, Bark,” says the Pekingese dog, but you, me, and Grandma know he isn’t going to &hellip Continue reading
How Are You Connecting The Dots?
A Monday Morning Memo from The Wizard of Ads How Are You Connecting the Dots? A Monday Morning Memo for the Clients and Friends of Williams Marketing “Don’t refuse to go on an occasional wild goose chase. That’s what wild geese are for.” Anonymous “In order for you to profit from your mistakes, you have &hellip Continue reading
Choose To Be Lucky
A Monday Morning Memo from The Wizard of Ads I decided to become a coin collector during the summer of the second grade and my decision became official when I put it in a letter to my grandmother. When my father came home that night, I asked if I could search through his pocket change &hellip Continue reading
