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

The essential guidebook on how to make your marketing and advertising more profitable—faster. You already have a great product or service—how do you build a narrative around it that speaks to your customers’ attitudes, interests, and needs? Drawing on established techniques and proven methods, Scientific Advertising by Claude Hopkins eliminates the guesswork from advertising so that you can actually get a measurable and substantive ROI. Students and experts alike will benefit from the timeless principles in this book, such as how to: Create a winning personality for your ads Incentivize people to buy without using sensationalism or empty rhetoric Strategically incorporate visual design elements into ads Harness the power of coupon advertising, product sampling, and direct-mail marketing Run test campaigns to make smarter decisions about your advertising dollars Known as the “father of modern advertising techniques,” Claude C. Hopkins transformed the marketing industry when he published Scientific Advertising, which is largely considered to be the landmark book on direct response marketing and split testing. More relevant today than ever before, Scientific Advertising provides a solid foundation in branding, writing compelling marketing copy, and testing and measuring advertising campaigns that will enhance not only your print marketing plan, but also your digital marketing and e-commerce strategies. Increase your company’s bottom line, stop wasting time and losing money on advertising focused merely on brand awareness or entertainment, and start leveraging salesmanship in advertising to boost sales and attract new customers.

As you are reading this, you are obviously interested in how Marketing actually works and what is actually effective. You already have been through the wringer with all these online marketers who use the same copy-paste template of a sales page, with mailing lists which send you unwanted traffic several times a week and insist that you are stupid enough to believe their hype, over and over and over. The Masters of Marketing Secrets series brings you these classics so that you can make up your own mind. All that has been done with these books is to give you modern versions of them which have been (mostly) cleaned up of typo's and poor editing - and also made available in ebook and paperback so you can study them at your leisure. J. George Frederick lived in those times and wrote about the people and principles of advertising they discovered. His book has been handed around for years, and as you study the other books in this series it starts pulling the pieces together for you.

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

""Most advertising copywriters know their fundamentals. Many of us practice them. Some of us should get back to them. ""Whether one is now studying to go into the field of copywriting, whether he is new in the craft, or whether he has been a practitioner in it for years, his knowledge-and practice-of these fundamentals will determine the extent of his success. ""As Daniel Defoe said, 'An old and experienced pilot loses a ship by his assurance and over-confidence of his knowledge as effectively as the young pilot does by his ignorance and want of experience.' ""So this book will strip down to fundamentals, try to forget the furbelows. For, as time goes on, every line of creative work gets cluttered up with impressive jargon and off-the-beam technicalities, with professional palaver that strays far away from the main objective."" Get your copy today - and learn the secrets of writing ads from the Masters...