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Content Marketing vs. Direct Response Marketing: How to Do Both Better

The trouble with most copywriters is that…they don’t think in terms of selling. – David Ogilvy

In a gloriously 1970s video directed at direct response writers, the Father of Modern Advertising (and Don Draper inspiration), David Ogilvy pleads for direct response marketers to teach their “general advertiser” brethren how to write ads.

As you can see, he’s very direct about his feelings on the matter.

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Better Business Writing: Ogilvy and Rolls-Royce

The advertisement above is arguably one of the most famous in American history.

At 60 miles an hour the loudest noise in this new Rolls-Royce comes from the electric clock.

This combination of 18 words that could have been typed out by a monkey on a keyboard catapulted Rolls-Royce sales to the moon and made it one of the best-known cars of the late 20th century.

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