Leaders Grasp Nettles.

Advertising Is A Business Of Words, But Advertising Agencies Are Infested With Men And Women Who Cannot Write. They Cannot Write Advertisements, And They Cannot Write Plans. They Are Helpless As Deaf Mutes On The Stage Of The Metropolitan Opera.

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.

Most Readers Look At The Photograph First. If You Put It In The Middle Of The Page, The Reader Will Start By Looking In The Middle. Then Her Eye Must Go Up To Read The Headline; This Doesn't Work, Because People Have A Habit Of Scanning Downwards. However, Suppose A Few Readers Do Read The Headline After Seeing The Photograph Below It. After That, You Require Them To Jump Down Past The Photograph Which They Have Already Seen. Not Bloody Likely.

Play To Win, But Enjoy The Fun.

Always Hold Your Sales Meetings In Rooms Too Small For The Audience, Even If It Means Holding Them In The Wc. 'standing Room Only' Creates An Atmosphere Of Success, As In Theatres And Restaurants, While A Half-empty Auditorium Smells Of Failure.