Ogilvy on Advertising

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Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group, Sep 11, 2013 - Social Science - 224 pages
A candid and indispensable primer on all aspects of advertising from the man Time has called "the most sought after wizard in the business."

Told with brutal candor and prodigal generosity, David Ogilvy reveals:

• How to get a job in advertising
• How to choose an agency for your product
• The secrets behind advertising that works
• How to write successful copy—and get people to read it
• Eighteen miracles of research
• What advertising can do for charities

And much, much more.
 

Contents

Overture
How to produce advertising that sells
Jobs in advertising and how to get them
How to run an advertising agency
How to get clients
Open letter to a client in search of an agency
a renaissance in print advertising
How to make TV commercials that sell
The secrets of success in businesstobusiness advertising
Direct mail my first love and secret weapon
Advertising for good causes
Competing with Procter Gamble
Miracles of research
What little I know about marketing
Is America still top nation?
Lasker Resor Rubicam Burnett Hopkins

Advertising corporations
How to advertise foreign travel

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About the author (2013)

David Ogilvy (1911–1999) was a business executive who founded the advertising, marketing, and PR agency Ogilvy & Mather in 1948. Throughout his illustrious career, the mogul Time magazine called “the most sought-after wizard in the business” shared his knowledge of the industry in the books Ogilvy on Advertising and the bestselling Confessions of an Advertising Man.

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