Hey, Whipple, Squeeze This: A Guide to Creating Great Advertising

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John Wiley & Sons, Apr 11, 2008 - Business & Economics - 304 pages
In this new edition of the irreverent, celebrated bestseller, master copywriter Luke Sullivan looks at the history of advertising, from the good, to the bad, to the ugly. Updated to cover online advertising, this edition gives you the best advertising guidance for traditional media and all the possibilities of new media and technologies. You’ll learn why bad ads sometimes work, why great ads fail, and how you can balance creative work with the mandate to sell.
 

Contents

A Guide to Creating Great Ads Chapter 1 Salesmen Dont Have to Wear Plaid
1
A Guide to Creating Great Ads Chapter 2 A Sharp Pencil Works Best
17
A Guide to Creating Great Ads Chapter 3 A Clean Sheet of Paper
37
A Guide to Creating Great Ads Chapter 4 Write When You Get Work
81
A Guide to Creating Great Ads Chapter 5 In the Future Everyone Will Be Famous for 30 Seconds
117
A Guide to Creating Great Ads Chapter 6 But Wait Theres More
131
A Guide to Creating Great Ads Chapter 7 Radio Is Hell But Its a Dry Heat
149
A Guide to Creating Great Ads Chapter 8 Big Honkin Ideas
175
A Guide to Creating Great Ads Chapter 10 Only the Good Die Young
207
A Guide to Creating Great Ads Chapter 11 Pecked to Death by Ducks
237
A Guide to Creating Great Ads Chapter 12 A Good Book or a Crowbar
271
A Guide to Creating Great Ads Chapter 13 Making Shoes versus Making Shoe Commercials
297
A Guide to Creating Great Ads NOTES
317
A Guide to Creating Great Ads ACKNOWLEDGMENTS
323
A Guide to Creating Great Ads INDEX
325
Copyright

A Guide to Creating Great Ads Chapter 9 Toto I Have a Feeling Were Not in McCannErickson Anymore
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Luke Sullivan is an award-winning copywriter with nearly thirty years in the business at some of the elite agencies in America-Fallon McElligott and the Martin Agency, and now GSD& M In Austin, Texas, where he is Group Creative Director. He has more than twenty medals to his credit in the prestigious One Show, the Oscars of the ad business.

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