In Most Agencies, Account Executives Outnumber The

It Takes A Big Idea To Attract The Attention Of Consumers And Get Them To Buy Your Product. Unless Your Advertising Contains A Big Idea, It Will Pass Like A Ship In The Night. I Doubt If More Than One Campaign In A Hundred Contains A Big Idea.

...consumers Do Not Buy One Brand Of Soap, Or Coffee, Or Detergent. They Have A Repertory Of Four Or Five Brands, And Move From One To Another. They Almost Never Buy A Brand Which Has Not Been Admitted To Their Repertory During Its First Year On The Market.

I Was Doing A Campaign Once For A Manufacturer, And I Couldn't Think Of An Ideas, And I Was Kind Of Desperate About It. The Night Before I Had To Show Something To My Client I Had A Dream, An Interesting Dream. I Woke Up And For Once In My Life I Wrote It Down And Went Back To Sleep Next Morning I Went To The Office And Had That Dream Out Into A Tv Commercial Which Is Still Running Thirty Years After And Which Has Made That Particular Product The Leader In Its Field.

Does Advertising Corrupt Editors? Yes It Does, But Fewer Editors Than You May Suppose... The Vast Majority Of Editors Are Incorruptible.

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