Scientific Advertising (ePub)

Get to know the methods and principles of successful advertising!
Original 1923 text as preserved in the Library of Congress
This classic advertising book will teach you how to make the most of your advertising budget while measuring your success! Scientific Advertising has been the secret weapon of successful advertisers for decades. When one of the most influential advertising men of all time, David Ogilvy, gives a book as a gift "379 times to friends and colleagues" – you can be sure it's a very special book. 

Why this version and not the free PDF files from the Internet?
You can find free PDFs of Scientific Advertising on the Internet, but we've often seen many serious errors: Words and sentences are missing, sometimes the meaning is twisted. Even most print editions from the last few years available at Amazon contain these errors. For example, Hopkins recounts a story of an expensive hat. In the original it costs $1,000 (about $20,000 today). In the faulty editions, the price is only $100. Or Hopkins writes: "There is no fixed rule on the subject of brevity". The faulty editions tell the opposite. So in many cases. Therefore we decided to produce a version that is faithful to the 1923 original as preserved in the US Library of Congress. So you have the same text as from Hopkin's own pen - even to the original paragraph breaks! 

What you will get from this book
Over 21 chapters, Hopkins presents his decades of experience in marketing, advertising and strategy:
How advertising laws are established: what experts do differently and how they develop their techniques Just salesmanship: how to make your advertising effective Offer service: how to differentiate yourself from your competitors Mail-order advertising: what it teaches you and how it can help you advertise successfully in all media Headlines: how to activate your target group and get them to buy Psychology: the better you understand the forces driving human behaviour, the more powerful your advertising becomes Being specific: convince with precise details Tell your whole story: why you should present all relevant arguments to an interested person Art in advertising: what you should consider when creating and designing advertisements Things too costly: dont't go near them Information: extensive research provides you with the key to success Strategy: how to defeat your competitors Use of samples: why the product is its best advertisement Getting distribution: how to achieve a lot with a smart strategy Test campaigns: how to avoid unprofitable investments through tests Leaning on dealers: Principles for efficient distribution Individuality: stand out professionally from the crowd Negative advertising: why you are almost always more successful with the bright, happy and attractive approach Letter writing: how to reach your customers A name that helps: how a good name increases your sales and at the same time protects you from competing products Good business: how to make the most of your potential

Proven knowledge!
Hopkins wrote his book as early as 1923 and yet to this day many of his methods and principles are highly relevant. "Every time I see a bad commercial, I say to myself,'The man who wrote that commercial never read Claude Hopkins.'... If you read this book from him, you will never again make bad advertising - and never release one," writes David Ogilvy, "nobody should be allowed to have anything to do with advertising unless they have read this book seven times before".