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#89 David Ogilvy (Confessions of an Advertising Man)

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The Contagious Tension to Entertaining Instead of Selling

The difference between one advertisement and another when measured in terms of sales can be as much as 19 to 1. The key to success is to promise the consumer a benefit, something he hammers in Ogilvy's advertising book. What works in one country almost always works in other countries. We're all way more similar than we are different.

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