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Advertising is fundamentally persuasion and persuasion happens to be not a science, but an art.
William Bernbach
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American
-
Businessman
August 13
, 1911 -
October 2
, 1982
Advertising is fundamentally persuasion and persuasion happens to be not a science, but an art.
William Bernbach
Persuasion
,
Fundamentally
The most powerful element in advertising is the truth.
William Bernbach
Truth
,
Most
,
Most Powerful
In advertising not to be different is virtually suicidal.
William Bernbach
Suicidal
,
Virtually
If your advertising goes unnoticed, everything else is academic.
William Bernbach
Unnoticed
,
Else
,
Goes
In this very real world, good doesn't drive out evil. Evil doesn't drive out good. But the energetic displaces the passive.
William Bernbach
Real
,
Energetic
,
Very
Because an appeal makes logical sense is no guarantee that it will work.
William Bernbach
Work
,
Will
,
Makes
Word of mouth is the best medium of all.
William Bernbach
Business
,
Best
,
Mouth
A great ad campaign will make a bad product fail faster. It will get more people to know it's bad.
William Bernbach
Product
,
More People
,
Ad
Today's smartest advertising style is tomorrow's corn.
William Bernbach
Today
,
Tomorrow
,
Corn
Nobody counts the number of ads you run; they just remember the impression you make.
William Bernbach
Remember
,
Number
,
Ads
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.
William Bernbach
Student
,
Concerned
,
Reader
Properly practiced creativity can make one ad do the work of ten.
William Bernbach
Work
,
Properly
,
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.
William Bernbach
More
,
Persuasive
,
Accepted
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?
William Bernbach
Insurance
,
Will
,
Ad
Advertising doesn't create a product advantage. It can only convey it.
William Bernbach
Product
,
Advantage
,
Convey
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.
William Bernbach
Been
,
Before
,
Inform
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.
William Bernbach
Product
,
Will
,
Happen
In communications, familiarity breeds apathy.
William Bernbach
Communication
,
Familiarity
Our job is to bring the dead facts to life.
William Bernbach
Job
,
Dead
,
Bring
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.
William Bernbach
Past
,
Bad
,
Ad
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.
William Bernbach
Product
,
Advantage
,
Going
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.
William Bernbach
Away
,
Product
,
Clients
I warn you against believing that advertising is a science.
William Bernbach
Science
,
Against
,
Warn
An idea can turn to dust or magic, depending on the talent that rubs against it.
William Bernbach
Magic
,
Rubs
,
Depending
We don't ask research to do what it was never meant to do, and that is to get an idea.
William Bernbach
Never
,
Idea
,
Meant
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