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Authors: David Ogilvy, Alan Parker
ISBN-13: 9781904915010, ISBN-10: 1904915019
Format: Paperback
Publisher: Southbank Publishing
Date Published: March 2005
Edition: (Non-applicable)

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Author Biography: David Ogilvy

Book Synopsis

David Ogilvy was an advertising genius. At the age of 37, he founded the New York–based agency that later merged to form the international company known as Ogilvy & Mather. Regarded as the father of modern advertising, Ogilvy was responsible for some of the most memorable advertising campaigns ever created. Confessions of an Advertising Man is the distillation of all the Ogilvy concepts, tactics, and techniques that made this international best–seller a blueprint for sound business practice. If you aspire to be a good manager in any business, this seminal work is a must–read.

Table of Contents

Foreword11
The Story Behind This Book15
Background29
IHow to Manage an Advertising Agency33
IIHow to Get Clients51
IIIHow to Keep Clients84
IVHow to Be a Good Client100
VHow to Build Great Campaigns117
VIHow to Write Potent Copy133
VIIHow to Illustrate Advertisements and Posters144
VIIIHow to Make Good Television Commercials159
IXHow to Make Good Campaigns for Food Products, Tourist Destinations and Proprietary Medicines164
XHow to Rise to the Top of the Tree - Advice to the Young171
XIShould Advertising Be Abolished?179
Index197

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