02-16-2014, 04:37 PM
Reason Why Advertising/Intensive Advertising
Here's another classic for you today.
How To Create Great (Successful!) Advertising
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It was six o'clock on a May evening in 1905 when John E. Kennedy sent a
note up to A. L. Thomas, the senior partner of the Lord and Thomas
advertising agency. Thomas was just getting ready to leave the office
when the messenger brought him the note. It read as follows:
"You do not know what advertising is. No one in the advertising business
knows what advertising is. No advertiser knows for certain what
advertising is. If you want to know, tell this messenger that I should
come up. I'm waiting in the lobby downstairs."
It was signed: "John E. Kennedy." Thomas read the note with an amused
smile then handed it to Albert D. Lasker, the junior partner in the firm
and said to him, "Well, you have been asking this question for years
and nobody has yet satisfied you. Maybe here is the answer...You see the
man."
Albert Lasker saw Kennedy that night. It wasn't until 3 o'clock in the
morning before they left the building. And when Lasker left that night,
he had the answer to what advertising was. What Kennedy told him that
night was simple. Advertising is SALESMANSHIP-IN-PRINT.
And as Lasker said at a meeting with his agency staff in 1925:
"It was that in 1905 when Kennedy told it; it was that before anyone had
ever told me, and it will always be that, and nothing else"
(from The Lasker Story As He Told It)
Kennedy had been in the Canadian Northwest Mounted Police and had become
interested in advertising. He told Lasker tales about the long,
lonesome days and nights in the snowy emptiness of Northern Canada and
how he spent them in meditative concentration isolating the fundamental
concept in all of advertising, which was COPY, and how he had discovered
that selling copy that got results was characterized by
SALESMANSHIP-IN-PRINT.
Was Kennedy right? Was this new insight the key to effective advertising?
Kennedy's experience with The Regal Shoe Company, Post Grape Nuts,
Postum Coffee, and Racine Wisconsin’s own Dr. Shoop's Family Medicine
Co. proved beyond a shadow of a doubt that he truly had isolated that
fundamental concept.
After that fateful meeting with Lasker, Kennedy joined Lord and Thomas
and became the highest salaried writer in all of advertising. One of
his first jobs was to write down his principles so they could be taught
to other copywriters in the agency.
Today, the only documents that survive with Kennedy's name on them are
Reason-Why Advertising, The Book of Advertising Tests (which is
basically the same as Reason Why Advertising but with a couple of added
chapters - one of which is purely promotional and non-instructive in
nature), and Intensive Advertising.
The value of the information you are about to gain is limited only by
the extent to which you use it. Many have made millions by following
these principles. Many more have lost millions by ignoring them
(including most of today’s “hottest” advertising agencies). Which path
you choose is entirely your own. The fact that you are considering the
very small investment required to get this report into your hands is a
very good sign.
It’s your choice...
Though its language and examples are dated, this book teaches many of
the tested and most effective methods of one of the advertising greats,
John E. Kennedy. In this instantly downloadable book, you will discover:
# The dangers of opinions in advertising
# What true Salesmanship is
# Why it's dangerous to try to replicate the successful advertising of others
# How to determine the earning power of an ad
# Why simple ads are good
# Why brilliance is worthless without conviction
# The definition of good advertising
# The essential parts of an ad
# The ideal length of advertising copy
# How to write really strong ads
# How to kindle "News Interest"
# How to determine if you have written good copy
# Why some advertisers grow wealthy while others fail
# How to test mail order advertising
# And much more!
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Here's another classic for you today.
How To Create Great (Successful!) Advertising
It was six o'clock on a May evening in 1905 when John E. Kennedy sent a
note up to A. L. Thomas, the senior partner of the Lord and Thomas
advertising agency. Thomas was just getting ready to leave the office
when the messenger brought him the note. It read as follows:
"You do not know what advertising is. No one in the advertising business
knows what advertising is. No advertiser knows for certain what
advertising is. If you want to know, tell this messenger that I should
come up. I'm waiting in the lobby downstairs."
It was signed: "John E. Kennedy." Thomas read the note with an amused
smile then handed it to Albert D. Lasker, the junior partner in the firm
and said to him, "Well, you have been asking this question for years
and nobody has yet satisfied you. Maybe here is the answer...You see the
man."
Albert Lasker saw Kennedy that night. It wasn't until 3 o'clock in the
morning before they left the building. And when Lasker left that night,
he had the answer to what advertising was. What Kennedy told him that
night was simple. Advertising is SALESMANSHIP-IN-PRINT.
And as Lasker said at a meeting with his agency staff in 1925:
"It was that in 1905 when Kennedy told it; it was that before anyone had
ever told me, and it will always be that, and nothing else"
(from The Lasker Story As He Told It)
Kennedy had been in the Canadian Northwest Mounted Police and had become
interested in advertising. He told Lasker tales about the long,
lonesome days and nights in the snowy emptiness of Northern Canada and
how he spent them in meditative concentration isolating the fundamental
concept in all of advertising, which was COPY, and how he had discovered
that selling copy that got results was characterized by
SALESMANSHIP-IN-PRINT.
Was Kennedy right? Was this new insight the key to effective advertising?
Kennedy's experience with The Regal Shoe Company, Post Grape Nuts,
Postum Coffee, and Racine Wisconsin’s own Dr. Shoop's Family Medicine
Co. proved beyond a shadow of a doubt that he truly had isolated that
fundamental concept.
After that fateful meeting with Lasker, Kennedy joined Lord and Thomas
and became the highest salaried writer in all of advertising. One of
his first jobs was to write down his principles so they could be taught
to other copywriters in the agency.
Today, the only documents that survive with Kennedy's name on them are
Reason-Why Advertising, The Book of Advertising Tests (which is
basically the same as Reason Why Advertising but with a couple of added
chapters - one of which is purely promotional and non-instructive in
nature), and Intensive Advertising.
The value of the information you are about to gain is limited only by
the extent to which you use it. Many have made millions by following
these principles. Many more have lost millions by ignoring them
(including most of today’s “hottest” advertising agencies). Which path
you choose is entirely your own. The fact that you are considering the
very small investment required to get this report into your hands is a
very good sign.
It’s your choice...
Though its language and examples are dated, this book teaches many of
the tested and most effective methods of one of the advertising greats,
John E. Kennedy. In this instantly downloadable book, you will discover:
# The dangers of opinions in advertising
# What true Salesmanship is
# Why it's dangerous to try to replicate the successful advertising of others
# How to determine the earning power of an ad
# Why simple ads are good
# Why brilliance is worthless without conviction
# The definition of good advertising
# The essential parts of an ad
# The ideal length of advertising copy
# How to write really strong ads
# How to kindle "News Interest"
# How to determine if you have written good copy
# Why some advertisers grow wealthy while others fail
# How to test mail order advertising
# And much more!
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