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Loading... The Book of Gossage (edition 2006)by Howard Luck Gossage; Jeff Goodby, Bruce Bendinger (Editor)
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Sign up for LibraryThing to find out whether you'll like this book. No current Talk conversations about this book. process Reissued 2006 (including Disc of Gossage) after having been out of print for years. It's a marvellous book about "The Socrates of San Francisco", the genius Howard Luck Gossage who had his very own ideas about advertising: "People (...) read what interests them. And sometimes it's an ad." Available from The Copy Workshop (for $50.00, incl. shipping). Ordering from Amazon.com should soon be possible again. For more information about Howard Luck Gossage see The Firehouse. no reviews | add a review
Thought provoking writings from The Socrates of San Francisco. With Stan Freberg and Jeff Goodby.
""Nobody reads ads. People read what interests them, and sometimes it's an ad." I heard Jim Mullen use a version of that line many times and always thought it was his until I picked up The Book of Gossage.It was given to me by a planner who said, "Jeff Goodby swears by Gossage's thinking." It was the 1960s when Gossage criticized the industry for talking "advertisingese." Instead he suggested having conversations with people, even if in those days it simply meant a coupon.More importantly he espoused being interesting. Relentlessly pounding people with the same message over and over made no sense to him. If it's interesting, people will remember it. If it's not, no number of forced exposures would make up for the shortcomings. The idea of involving readers and being interesting: Now there are two ideas that hold up." No library descriptions found. |
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