Write The Way You Talk. Naturally.

It Takes Uncommon Guts To Stick To One Style In The Face Of All The Pressures To 'come Up With Something New' Every Six Months. It Is Tragically Easy To Be Stampeded Into Change. But Golden Rewards Await The Advertiser Who Has The Brains To Create A Coherent Image, And The Stability To Stick With It Over A Long Period.

Do Not Address Your Readers As Though They Were Gathered Together In A Stadium. When People Read Your Copy, They Are Alone. Pretend You Are Writing To Each Of Them A Letter On Behalf Of Your Client.

Once Upon A Time I Was Riding On The Top Of A First Avenue Bus, When I Heard A Mythical Housewife Say To Another, "molly, My Dear, I Would Have Bought That New Brand Of Toilet Soap If Only They Hadn't Set The Body Copy In Ten Point Garamond." Don't You Believe It. What Really Decides Consumers To Buy Or Not To Buy Is The Content Of Your Advertising, Not Its Form.

There Are Now Unmistakeable Signs Of A Trend In Favor Of Superior Products At Premium Prices. The Consumer Is Not A Moron, She Is Your Wife.

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.