You now have to decide what ‘image’ you want for your brand. Image means personality. Products, like people, have personalities, and they can make or break them in the market place.
DAVID OGILVYNever stop testing, and your advertising will never stop improving.
More David Ogilvy Quotes
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First, make yourself a reputation for being a creative genius. Second, surround yourself with partners who are better than you are. Third, leave them to go get on with it.
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Never stop testing, and your advertising will never stop improving.
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On the average, five times as many people read the headline as read the body copy. When you have written your headline, you have spent eighty cents out of your dollar.
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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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It is flagrantly dishonest for an advertising agent to urge consumers to buy a product which he would not allow his own wife to buy.
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Don’t bunt. Aim out of the ball park. Aim for the company of immortals.
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The headline is the ‘ticket on the meat.’ Use it to flag down readers who are prospects for the kind of product you are advertising.
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Every advertisement should be thought of as a contribution to the complex symbol which is the brand image.
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Our business is infested with idiots who try to impress by using pretentious jargon.
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It strikes me as bad manners for a magazine to accept one of my advertisements and then attack it editorially – like inviting a man to dinner then spitting in his eye.
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Advertising is only evil when it advertises evil things.
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The more informative your advertising, the more persuasive it will be.
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What really decides consumers to buy or not to buy is the content of your advertising, not its form.
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Advertising reflects the mores of society, but it does not influence them.
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What you say in advertising is more important than how you say it.
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