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Mail Order Ad by Gene Schwartz’s Copywriting Mentor: Cecil Hoge

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Mail Order ad by Cecil HogeIf you’ve heard the story of a young Gene Schwartz working one day in the mail room and a few short years later becoming a mail order millionaire, then here is an interesting ad.

It was written in 1975 by the man who showed Gene the ropes in the early 50s, Cecil Hoge, the founder and president of the Huber Hoge, Inc.

The promise of this ad is essentially a stone’s throw away from the internet marketing pitches that plague us today…but there’s a key difference.

Most of those offers lack the sophistication of even hinting that they might not be for you.

Not here. [Read more…] about Mail Order Ad by Gene Schwartz’s Copywriting Mentor: Cecil Hoge

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Wrinkles FEAR Her

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Helena Rubinstein came to the United States as a penniless Polish immigrant who went on to build one of the largest cosmetics empires in history.

And direct response advertising played a key role in pushing her products at retail stores from coast to coast.

This ad was created by Ogilvy and Mather in 1952 and is part of an incredible series of 20 or so “page-one advertorials.”

Unlike ordinary advertorials, which are ads formatted to look like editorials or news, these ads are laid out like page one of a major newspaper. [Read more…] about Wrinkles FEAR Her

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Marshall McLuhan Says That TV Killed Bob Kennedy (Gene Schwartz Newsletter Ad)

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Just when you thought you’ve seen every Gene Schwartz print ad there is, another one creeps up from his seemingly endless oeuvre!

This one promotes the Marshall McLuhan Dew-Line Newsletter which looks like it had a modest run between 1968 and 1970.

Gene was probably a partner on this one and you’ll notice one of his easy to identify corporate name selections, Human Development Corporation, as well as the ubiquitous Schwartzian word, “instant,” in the copy: “INSTANT SEX.”

(Darn, I was too late to register the domain!) [Read more…] about Marshall McLuhan Says That TV Killed Bob Kennedy (Gene Schwartz Newsletter Ad)

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20 Year Direct Mail Control: Burn Disease Out Of Your Body

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How many direct mail packages in the alternative medicine market can boast two decades of mailing?

This one, written by Eugene Schwartz and first mailed in 1979, had more stamina than the Energizer Bunny.

It finally stopped mailing in the early 1990s, but not before it raked in untold millions.

The ad sold the book by Dr. Stephen T. Chang: The Book of Internal Exercises. [Read more…] about 20 Year Direct Mail Control: Burn Disease Out Of Your Body

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Why “Armageddon Advertising” Sells

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From 1979-1981, Doug Casey’s full page ads proclaiming “the Great Depression of the 1980s” were in newspapers all over America.

His book, Crisis Investing, became the bestselling financial book in history, hit  #1 on the New York Times Best Seller list, and stayed there for twelve weeks.

There was a nasty worldwide recession in the early 1980s, but nothing even close to a depression.

Did that put him out of business?

Hardly.

He’s run a lucrative consulting firm for the last 30 years and lived in twelve different countries.

In early 1987, economist Ravi Batra’s book, The Great Depression of 1990, was table talk from coast to coast.

It hit #1 on the Times Best Seller List later that year.

There was a nasty worldwide recession in the early 1990s, but nothing close to a full-fledged depression.

Did that put the damper on Professor Batra?

No.

He’s published a parade of books since, including the 1999 doomsday title, “The Crash of the Millennium.”

Casey and Batra are hardly the only prophets of doom to profit from doomsday predictions but the specificity and severity of their predictions catapulted them into the spotlight in a way others never reached.

Amusingly, some of their supporters have claimed they were right — they were just off by a few years and overstated the financial markets crash of 2008. [Read more…] about Why “Armageddon Advertising” Sells

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