If You Can’t Be Brilliant, At Least

Some Manufacturers Illustrate Their Advertisements With Abstract Paintings. I Would Only Do This If I Wished To Conceal From The Reader What I Was Advertising.

Most Headlines Are Set Too Big To Be Legible In The Magazines Or Newspaper. Never Approve A Layout Until You Have Seen It Pasted Into The Magazine Or Newspaper For Which It Was Destined. If You Pin Up The Layouts On A Bulletin Board And Appraise Them From Fifteen Feet, You Will Produce Posters.

I Have A Theory That The Best Ads Come From Personal Experience. Some Of The Good Ones I Have Done Have Really Come Out Of The Real Experience Of My Life, And Somehow This Has Come Over As True And Valid And Persuasive. People Love To Read Stories. They Like To Know You As A Real Person Who Has Your Struggle, Pain, Success And Failure, Etc. One Well-known Example Is Jared Fogle's Weight Loss Story Which Made Millions Of Dollars For Subway. Start To Collect Your Stories From Today And Use Them In Your Ad Campaigns.

The Worst Fault A Salesman Can Commit Is To Be A Bore. Foster Any Attempt To Talk About Other Things; The Longer You Stay The Better You Get To Know The Prospect, And The More You Will Be Trusted.

Experience Has Taught Me That Advertisers Get The Best Results When They Pay Their Agency A Flat Fee. It Is Unrealistic To Expect Your Agency To Be Impartial When Its Vested Interest Lies Wholly In The Direction Of Increasing Your Commissionable Advertising.