Authors: David Ogilvy, Alan Parker
ISBN-13: 9781904915010, ISBN-10: 1904915019
Format: Paperback
Publisher: Southbank Publishing
Date Published: March 2005
Edition: (Non-applicable)
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.
Foreword | 11 | |
The Story Behind This Book | 15 | |
Background | 29 | |
I | How to Manage an Advertising Agency | 33 |
II | How to Get Clients | 51 |
III | How to Keep Clients | 84 |
IV | How to Be a Good Client | 100 |
V | How to Build Great Campaigns | 117 |
VI | How to Write Potent Copy | 133 |
VII | How to Illustrate Advertisements and Posters | 144 |
VIII | How to Make Good Television Commercials | 159 |
IX | How to Make Good Campaigns for Food Products, Tourist Destinations and Proprietary Medicines | 164 |
X | How to Rise to the Top of the Tree - Advice to the Young | 171 |
XI | Should Advertising Be Abolished? | 179 |
Index | 197 |