With proper testing, education and methodology you too can be guaranteed results from your advertising.
The first return on investment from your advertising efforts will be an inquiry about your product. It may be to a salesperson in a store, a phone call or an email.
In any case this is just an inquiry for the goods or service. This is real evidence your advertising is working and generating a return on investment.
But, in either case, it is just an Inquiry for the goods, of one sort or another. It is the first practical evidence that the money spent is earning something tangible in return.
Now it may take twice or three times as much Conviction in Copy to make a Consumer write an Inquiry for goods, and post it, as it would have taken to make that same Consumer inquire verbally for the goods advertised, when passing a store that should sell them.
The ad which pulls consumers into retail outlets must be as full of influence as profitable mail order advertising. The consumer must be fortified against substitution.
Therefore, the Advertisement which sends Consumers to Retailers, should be as full of Conviction as the successful Mail-Order Advertisement, in order to fortify that Consumer against substitution, Don?t keep it, and Here's-something-better.
Because, if the Advertisement fails to thus fortify the Consumer with "Reason-Why" and conviction, it may simply send him to the Retail Store to be switched on to a competing line of goods with which the Retailer is heavily stocked, or which his Clerks favor the sale of in preference to ours. In that case the Advertising we pay for would sell goods for our non-advertising competitors. Half the money spent to "Keep-the-Name-before-the-People" results to day in this substitution of non-advertised articles for the articles advertised through General Publicity or branding.
In contrast to branding "Reason-Why Advertising" or Salesmanship-on-Paper, results are insured and far more predictable. Consumers need only be convinced one time, through "Reason why advertising" or "Salesmanship- on-paper," the product or service is best for them and their use.
But, with "Reason-Why" Salesmanship-on-Paper, results are insured and far more cumulative. Because, a Consumer need only be convinced once, through "Reason-why" or "Salesmanship- on-paper," that the article is what he should, for his own sake, buy and use.
Conviction qualities in copy are shown, by test, to be just as necessary in Advertising design to sell goods profitably today, through Retailers to Consumers, as they are to sell goods direct by mail to Consumers. That is why every Advertisement for goods to be sold through Retailers (against substitution, and "Don't keep-it" influences), should have as much positive selling force, "Reason-why" and conviction in it, as would be necessary to sell the goods by mail direct to Consumers.
He therefore makes a second, third, and further consecutive purchases of the article as a result of having once read a single convincing Reason Why advertisement about it. This is where large and cumulative profits must come to the General Advertiser-on the second, third and continued purchases by Readers of the first advertisement that reached their Convictions.
The difference in Results from Space in which this direct selling force of "Reason-Why" has been used, and in results from similar space filled with "General Publicity," is often more than 60 per cent. Conclusive tests on Copy have clearly proved this, and preceding article cites a vivid example of it from actual experience
The first return on investment from your advertising efforts will be an inquiry about your product. It may be to a salesperson in a store, a phone call or an email.
In any case this is just an inquiry for the goods or service. This is real evidence your advertising is working and generating a return on investment.
But, in either case, it is just an Inquiry for the goods, of one sort or another. It is the first practical evidence that the money spent is earning something tangible in return.
Now it may take twice or three times as much Conviction in Copy to make a Consumer write an Inquiry for goods, and post it, as it would have taken to make that same Consumer inquire verbally for the goods advertised, when passing a store that should sell them.
The ad which pulls consumers into retail outlets must be as full of influence as profitable mail order advertising. The consumer must be fortified against substitution.
Therefore, the Advertisement which sends Consumers to Retailers, should be as full of Conviction as the successful Mail-Order Advertisement, in order to fortify that Consumer against substitution, Don?t keep it, and Here's-something-better.
Because, if the Advertisement fails to thus fortify the Consumer with "Reason-Why" and conviction, it may simply send him to the Retail Store to be switched on to a competing line of goods with which the Retailer is heavily stocked, or which his Clerks favor the sale of in preference to ours. In that case the Advertising we pay for would sell goods for our non-advertising competitors. Half the money spent to "Keep-the-Name-before-the-People" results to day in this substitution of non-advertised articles for the articles advertised through General Publicity or branding.
In contrast to branding "Reason-Why Advertising" or Salesmanship-on-Paper, results are insured and far more predictable. Consumers need only be convinced one time, through "Reason why advertising" or "Salesmanship- on-paper," the product or service is best for them and their use.
But, with "Reason-Why" Salesmanship-on-Paper, results are insured and far more cumulative. Because, a Consumer need only be convinced once, through "Reason-why" or "Salesmanship- on-paper," that the article is what he should, for his own sake, buy and use.
Conviction qualities in copy are shown, by test, to be just as necessary in Advertising design to sell goods profitably today, through Retailers to Consumers, as they are to sell goods direct by mail to Consumers. That is why every Advertisement for goods to be sold through Retailers (against substitution, and "Don't keep-it" influences), should have as much positive selling force, "Reason-why" and conviction in it, as would be necessary to sell the goods by mail direct to Consumers.
He therefore makes a second, third, and further consecutive purchases of the article as a result of having once read a single convincing Reason Why advertisement about it. This is where large and cumulative profits must come to the General Advertiser-on the second, third and continued purchases by Readers of the first advertisement that reached their Convictions.
The difference in Results from Space in which this direct selling force of "Reason-Why" has been used, and in results from similar space filled with "General Publicity," is often more than 60 per cent. Conclusive tests on Copy have clearly proved this, and preceding article cites a vivid example of it from actual experience
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