American advertising pioneer CLAUDE C. HOPKINS (1866-1932) is still renowned today for developing such marketing innovations as coded coupons that could be used to track the success of varying offers. His methods are still prized for their efficacy today. In this groundbreaking 1923 work, written after he retired as president and chairman of one of the world's biggest ad agencies, Hopkins shares the secrets of successful marketing that are just as relevant today as they were almost a century ago. Learn: . how advertising laws are established . the importance of just salesmanship . why businesses must offer service . mail order advertising: what it teaches . what makes headlines effective . understanding customer psychology . how to use art in advertising . how to use samples . the best way to test campaigns . the impact of negative advertising . and much more.
Gain a lifetime of experience from the inventor of test marketing and coupon sampling -- Claude C. Hopkins.
This edition also includes examples of adverts produced by Claude Hopkins through his career. Nobody should be allowed to have anything to do with advertising until he has read this book seven times. It changed the course of my life.
This book is not written as a personal history, but as a business story. I have tried to avoid trivialities and to confine myself to matters of instructive interest....
""ADVERTISING should be judged only by the goods it is conclusively known to sell, at a given cost.
" Told with brutal candor and prodigal generosity, David Ogilvy reveals: • How to get a job in advertising • How to choose an agency for your product • The secrets behind advertising that works • How to write successful copy—and ...
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A veteran copywriter offers advice on how to spark ideas and then capture them in copy, how to write headlines that attract attention, how to make ads believable and motivate readers to act, and how to learn from failure as well as success.
In the original it costs $1,000 (about $20,000 today). In the faulty editions, the price is only $100. Or Hopkins writes: "There is no fixed rule on the subject of brevity". The faulty editions tell the opposite. So in many cases.
That's equivalent to over $25 million today.Claude codified his techniques in 1923 in a book called Scientific Advertising.While this book has been recommended and used by many great marketing minds since Claude's day, his principles remain ...