You Are Forgettable: How To Ditch Your Boring Brand With Ken Moskowitz From Ad Zombies [AMP 140]

- Passion for Production: From creating commercials as a child and dreaming of being the best disc jockey to turning into a zombie
- Conversions and Reconstruction: Ad Zombies came to life by accident after discovering need to rewrite ad copy to connect with specific customers
- Origin and Evolution: Ad Zombies’ brand positioning of world’s best flat-fee ad copywriting service changes to writing words that sell anything
- More than 103,000 Ad Zombies followers on Facebook attributed to mix of wordsmithing skills and engaging audience to evoke emotional responses
- Missing mark to make memorable ads: Stories and visual noise connect and convert consumers through brand awareness
- Where to start: Consistent messaging peppered through channels; view consumer’s perspective, and take the plunge to try something new
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Quotes by Ken Moskowitz:
- “I was probably the AV-Squad King. I was definitely a nerd. I spent my free time making my own commercials and storytelling. It was fun for me.”
- “Strategically, you want to always think about what your business is: What do you do for a living? What does your business really do? What business should you be in?”
- “We are not afraid to take chances and to put stuff out there. Ad Zombies is a brand that at its core...we write ads. What we really do is entertain and we engage our audience.”
- "Don’t ever be afraid to try new things and don’t go with, “I don’t like this ad.” How do you know 100 million people won’t?"
You Are Forgettable: How To Ditch Your Boring Brand With @spankymoskowitz From Ad Zombies
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Eric: I think as humans, it’s just in our nature that we find people that we look up to. We seek out individuals that we aspire to be like or that motivate us. When I was a kid, I wanted to be like my older brother. When I was a varsity tennis player, I looked up to Andre Agassi because he was the tennis god back in the day. Now, as a professional marketer, you betcha, I have my short list of marketing influencers that I go to for thought leadership and for mentorship. I think the same can be said of company brands. We naturally are drawn and gravitate towards brands that do a phenomenal job of telling their key storylines and unique value proposition, but at the same time can authentically connect with their audience. We aspire, we all have that short list, I know you do, of brands that you look up to. Maybe I’m biased because I’m the brand and buzz manager here at CoSchedule, but I marvel at the way certain brands are able to do that, and that’s the topic of today’s episode. I’ve got just the person to talk all about this. His name is Ken Moskowitz, he is the founder and CEO at Ad Zombies. They have done such a fun and unique way of connecting with their audience and telling their brand story. They have over 1300 followers on Facebook. Ken has some great insights around brand creation. He really challenges us as marketers and questions the things that were doing when we tell our brand. He gives us suggestions on, how can we potentially bring entertainment and humor and true brand storytelling into our copy and our visuals and the way that we tell our story regardless of what industry you’re in and regardless if you’re B2B or B2C. It’s such good stuff. Thank you so much for tuning into the episode of the Actionable Marketing Podcast, I am your host, my name is Eric Piela. I can’t wait to introduce you to Ken. Buckle up because it’s time to get amped. Alright ladies and gentlemen, welcome to another fun episode of the Actionable Marketing Podcast. I’ve got a fun guest, his name is Ken Moskowitz. He is the CEO at Ad Zombie. Ken, welcome to the show. Ken: Thank you so much for having me, Eric. I am stoked to be here today. Eric: I am stoked you’re on the call, this is fun. I did some research, obviously, trying to get to know my guests. I love Ad Zombies, I think it’s such a fun brand. We’ll dive so much into that, Ken. I got to ask you, where are you calling in from today? Ken: Phoenix, Arizona where our headquarters are. Eric: Sunny Phoenix. I’m in Sunny Fargo, North Dakota. Ken: Very similar weather patterns. Eric: It is, we’re going to hit us a balmy 67 degrees, which I love, it’s very spring here. I’m so glad that you’re on the show today. I think we’re going to have some fun talking about branding. I’d love to hear a little bit more about what Ad Zombie does. I think it’s just good for us if we could, I want our listeners to know a little bit about you, Ken. Maybe just give them the 10,000 foot view of your career, where did Ad Zombie come to be, and what you’re really passionate about when it comes to marketing? Ken: Before Ad Zombies was even a concept, before Ad Zombies took its first breath and crawled out of the grave because we’re zombies, we reanimate, my career goes back to the days of broadcasting and radio. I started in the late ‘80s. I thought I was going to be the world’s best DJ, I thought like I was going to be the next Howard Stern. It turns out that after a couple of years in the on air studio, I really found my love was in the production room. It’s funny, if I look back now, I realized that I should’ve known that inherently because when I was 12 years old, I had a makeshift production studio in my bedroom. When I was 13 and I was bar mitzvahed, yes I’m a JFNY that’s Jew from New York. When I was bar mitzvahed, I took as much money as my parents will allow me, and I bought all the equipment I could get to make a production studio, an official studio. I had real to reel tape decks. Instead of making mix tapes of music from the ‘80s because that’s what every cool kid did, I would spend my time there creating commercials. There was something definitely off, I was probably the AV squad king. I was definitely a nerd, and that’s okay, I like that, it worked out well for me. I spent my free time making my own commercials and storytelling and it was fun for me. Go back to when I got into radio thinking I was going to be the best DJ in the world, I had the opportunity to fill in for someone in the production studio, they were going on vacation. Since I was intimately familiar with the production room, I said, “I’ll cover for you.” That was it, I was hooked.



