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" Advertising doesn't create a product advantage. It can only convey it. "
Product
Create
Advertising
" Advertising is fundamentally persuasion and persuasion happens to be not a science, but an art. "
Art
Persuasion
Science
" A great ad campaign will make a bad product fail faster. It will get more people to know it's bad. "
Will
Bad
Great
" An idea can turn to dust or magic, depending on the talent that rubs against it. "
Turn
Talent
Magic
" Because an appeal makes logical sense is no guarantee that it will work. "
Because
Will
Sense
" Forget words like 'hard sell' and 'soft sell.' That will only confuse you. Just be sure your advertising is saying something with substance, something that will inform and serve the consumer, and be sure you're saying it like it's never been said before. "
You
Saying
Forget
" If your advertising goes unnoticed, everything else is academic. "
Everything
Your
Academic
" In advertising not to be different is virtually suicidal. "
Be Different
Advertising
Different
" In communications, familiarity breeds apathy. "
Familiarity
Communication
Apathy
" In this very real world, good doesn't drive out evil. Evil doesn't drive out good. But the energetic displaces the passive. "
Drive
Evil
Good
" It is insight into human nature that is the key to the communicator's skill. For whereas the writer is concerned with what he puts into his writings, the communicator is concerned with what the reader gets out of it. He therefore becomes a student of how people read or listen. "
Human Nature
Key
Nature
" I warn you against believing that advertising is a science. "
Advertising
Believing
Science
" Just because your ad looks good is no insurance that it will get looked at. How many people do you know who are impeccably groomed... but dull? "
Will
Good
Insurance
" Nobody counts the number of ads you run; they just remember the impression you make. "
Run
You
Remember
" No matter how skillful you are, you can't invent a product advantage that doesn't exist. And if you do, and it's just a gimmick, it's going to fall apart anyway. "
Product
Fall
Going
" Our job is to bring the dead facts to life. "
Life
Dead
Bring
" Our job is to sell our clients' merchandise... not ourselves. Our job is to kill the cleverness that makes us shine instead of the product. Our job is to simplify, to tear away the unrelated, to pluck out the weeds that are smothering the product message. "
Product
Job
Clients
" Properly practiced creativity can make one ad do the work of ten. "
Make
Work
Ad
" Properly practiced creativity must result in greater sales more economically achieved. Properly practiced creativity can lift your claims out of the swamp of sameness and make them accepted, believed, persuasive, urgent. "
More
Creativity
Lift
" The most powerful element in advertising is the truth. "
Advertising
Most
Powerful
" There is no such thing as a good or bad ad in isolation. What is good at one moment is bad at another. Research can trap you into the past. "
Past
Research
Good
" Today's smartest advertising style is tomorrow's corn. "
Advertising
Today
Style
" We don't ask research to do what it was never meant to do, and that is to get an idea. "
Research
Get
Ask
" Word of mouth is the best medium of all. "
Business
Word
Mouth
" You can say the right thing about a product and nobody will listen. You've got to say it in such a way that people will feel it in their gut. Because if they don't feel it, nothing will happen. "
Feel
You
Say
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