Business book publisher Ray Bard says all bestselling books share 4 traits:

1: A Big Idea

2: Nuts and Bolts

3: Entertainment

4: Hope

These 4 elements are applicable to your advertising, also. Nuts and Bolts seems to be the one that most people get right away. A Big Idea often shows up. But, conspicuously missing are Entertainment and Hope.

In this episode of The Wizard’s Roundtable, Chris Maddock and I recap our recent Martinis and Marketing class at Wizard Academy where we spent a good deal of time talking about Hope.