April 16, 2026
Tag: mid century adversiting postcards
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It’s Yours for FREE!
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Offers of free gifts that motivate customers to become involved with a product or brand is not the invention of internet advertisers. Advertising postcards have been around since the start of the postcard era. During the 1950s and 1960s, postcards offering free gifts were popular as a “business-to-customer” method of sales communication. The emergence of…
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December 29, 2022 6 Comments
What was George Bernard Shaw thinking when he wrote, “Those who can, do; those who can’t, teach.” It has been a thorn in the side of every teacher since it appeared in Man and Superman in 1903. If Shaw had ever met Herr Doktor Franz Cizek, he would never have written such an outlandish insult. Cizek did it all, very well!