The Top Cowboy of Advertising, Jim
Whelan, wants to know:
Are You Ready To Be Super Sized?
Because he’s ready to take you straight to the top!
See your name in lights, in newspapers, magazines,
and on radio and television.
Reach the highest levels of success, fame, and fortune.
The James R Whelan Agency announces the opening of
it’s publicity division.
Jim Whelan outside the 2008 Academy Awards in Hollywood.
Fella cowboys and cowgirls,
This is big. Much bigger than big-time.
It’s enormous, it’s huge, it’s humongous.
It’s mammoth, massive, and super colossal.
Did I miss anything?
Am I going a little overboard?
Perhaps.
But…maybe not at all.
Cowboy Jim has a helluva track record, and since I’m a betting man, I’m
telling you he is the horse to place a bet on.
When he sets his sights on a project with potential, those hardworking folks
at the treasury need to start printing more money.
A lot more money.
They need to do that because there’s going to be a lot more money circulating
wherever Cowboy Jim is a walkin’ and a talkin’.
Like dogs and fleas, like sugar and ants; some things just go together.
Milk and cookies.
Coffee and doughnuts.
Beer and pizza.
Cowboy Jim and money. Cowboy Jim and more money.
Cowboy Jim and money, success, and fame.
Wherever Jim is, money is in circulation, and success and fame are certainly
close enough to call.
You know that old disco tune “It’s Raining Men?”
Everybody has heard that tune, so don’t try to tell me you don’t know it.
Wherever Jim is, they need to change the name of that tune to “It’s Raining Money!”
Halleluya!
Very recently, in Japan, with absolutely no prior experience dealing with
business in a foreign country, he made a television deal with a Japanese
production company.
He was wearing one of his world famous tuxedos, and the Japanese
approached him on the street.
They thought he was a big star.
(And he is.)
This was no pipsqueak of a deal, no courtesy from the host.
Jim dialed back to the U.S. on his cell phone, spoke a few words to a large
television production company here, and then made the Japanese an offer, right
there on the street.
They took it.
There were a good number of zeroes involved in that deal.
This happened on vacation…his first trip to Japan…and he spoke not one
word of Japanese.
Well, he did mispronounce “arrigato” a couple of dozen times, but he’s so
good natured that nobody held it against him.
Well…there was one Japanese chef holding a cleaver that did give him the
hairy eyeball for a minute or two. Then he wanted to try on Jim’s Stetson hat.
Jim wanted to try on his chefs hat.
There was a ceremonial exchange of hats, and photo’s ensued.
(I have to say at this point that the Japanese chef looked much better in a
Stetson than Jim looked in a chefs hat. But everyone had fun.)
Jim is always positioned where preparation meets opportunity.
It’s an area he’s staked out, just like in the Wild West.
Some folks call that luck.
Cowboy Jim is always, always, prepared.
He has made deals in diners, the lobbies of five star hotels, on a nude beach,
(I wish I could tell you that story, but I can’t), and on the hood of a car in a
New York City parking lot.
He regularly chats with folks from all the major networks, including cable.
Magazine editors, and web site owners always take his calls.
If you’re prepared, Jim will provide you the opportunity.
You supply the talent, or product, and Jim will add the pizzazz.
Again, very recently, a major animal rights organization, in concert with several
Hollywood A listers and an auto company, approached Jim about running a major
campaign starting very soon.
Why would they take their business to someone who up until this moment didn’t
do publicity for anyone other than himself?
It’s a huge Texas style project.
This is the kind of thing that normally goes to gazillion dollar ad agencies, with
hundreds, maybe thousands of employees.
But they chose Cowboy Jim.
They chose him because he has the Midas touch.
Because he’ll out zthink his competitors.
Because he’ll walk the extra mile for his clients without being asked.
Because he won’t rest until his client has made it to the top of the mountain.
Because if it takes 93 phone calls to get someone to get on the bus, Gus,
that’s just what he’s going to do.
People just don’t say no to Cowboy Jim Whelan.
He doesn’t even know what the word no means.
The more times he hears the word no, the happier he is.
Most very good sales people will stop at around 8 no’s.
Cowboy Jim will never stop. Most every client he has would rather become
a client than have to tell him…no.
Cowboy Jim likes to joke that no only means “not in the next minute or so.”
It doesn’t mean 15 minutes from now, or a half hour from now, or tomorrow.
Wouldn’t you want this guy in your corner?
I would.
Wouldn’t you want a guy that is the just getting warmed up the 25th
time a television producer has just told him no?
I would.
All your other big time agencies would have already dumped you as a client
by then, and put a lot of distance between the both of you.
Not Cowboy Jim.
When the Whelanator, (That’s a little office humor), wraps himself around
a project, it’s “No Retreat, No Surrender!”
Because that’s the way stand up guys do things.
Because when he says something, he means it.
Because for him, there just isn’t any other way to do business.
Because for him, the top of the mountain is the only place to be.
Here’s a summary for you.
Here is where I boil it all down for you.
There is no other way to say it.
Cowboy Jim is a Rainmaker.
When y’all ring up the receipts, it don’t rightly matter who done what,
how many hours was put in, who spoke ta who, or what the hell all else
went down.
It don’t matter what fancy restaurants y’all ate in, what kind of designer
threads ya was wearin’, what kind of model ya had by yer side, and what kinda martini ya threw back at what not fancy club.
The only ring that matters, the only score that counts, is how much
sweet cash has been generated.
That’s what Cowboy Jim Whelan does, he makes it rain sweet cash.
He doesn’t make excuses, he makes money.
Wouldn’t you want a rain making Cowboy on your team?
