Claude C. Hopkins

Scientific Advertising is an important work on advertising from the early 20th century and is still used today by those learning the basics and more advanced parts of the advertising field. The author of Scientific Advertising, Claude C. Hopkins, is well known as the father of modern advertising techniques, and this book has been widely used by students of advertising and marketing. This book covers many important aspects of advertising including how advertising laws are established, mail order advertising, headlines, psychology, strategy, budgeting, and more advanced subjects like negative advertising and how to test an advertising campaign.

Scientific Advertising

Scientific Advertising by Claude Hopkins

"Nobody should be allowed to have anything to do with advertising until he has read this book seven times. It changed the course of my life." — Advertising legend David Ogilvy Scientific Advertising begins with a simple declarative statement: "The time has come when advertising has in some hands reached the status of a science. It is based on fixed principles and is reasonably exact. The causes and effects have been analyzed until they are well understood." And in 21 concise chapters, Claude C. Hopkins covers the essence of good advertising. Beyond the points to be made about telling a story using headlines and art, being specific and providing vital information, and using samples and testing campaigns, this book clearly demonstrates why Hopkins was an expert on the best marketing policies. Almost a century after its initial publication, this little volume remains useful to those entering any area of the business world. More than an account of Hopkins's thoughts about good salesmanship, it is a window into a bygone era and the early decades of the American business of advertising.

"Nobody should be allowed to have anything to do with advertising until he has read this book seven times. It changed the course of my life." said Ogilvy of that book. It is a must read for any marketer, advertiser, business person. Especially now that text based advertising has become once again so important. Think Adwords, Tweets, Facebook Updates… Advertising 101…

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Dr. Robert C. Worstell

This book is not written as a personal history, but as a business story. I have tried to avoid trivialities and to confine myself to matters of instructive interest. The chief object behind every episode is to offer helpful suggestions to those who will follow me. And to save them some of the midnight groping which I did. My only claim for credit is that I have probably worked twice as long as anybody else in this field. I have lived for many years in a vortex of advertising. Naturally I learned more from experience than those who had a lesser chance. Now I want that experience, so far as possible, to help others avoid the same difficult climb. Every pioneer should blaze his trail. That is all I have tried to do. I set down these findings solely for the purpose of aiding others to start far up the heights I scaled. Then, with the efforts I here describe, I hope you can now attain some peaks in advertising beyond any of us to date. - Claude C. Hopkins

Scientific Advertising - Masters of Marketing Secrets: From the First Great Copywriter

John E. Kennedy

Albert D. Lasker

All effective modern marketing can be traced to three authors in one time period. If you study the best of the best marketers out there - and then study who they studied - you can eventually find the real basics which make all marketing work. Really work. That is how these books were uncovered. While each separately tells pieces of the puzzle, together they tell the evolution of advertising as it exists today. All the advances made by others since can be directly traced to the breakthroughs made during this time. These five books each tell their own piece to the puzzle. Albert Lasker gave the narrative, telling where he first met John E. Kennedy and Claude Hopkins. When you read those copywriters' works in turn, the lights come on. You'll see where all the new, "modern" breakthroughs have come from and why they get results. All the secrets hidden in plain sight. Just in need of a bit of dusting off... Get Your Copy Today!

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