Werbung ist Überzeugung und Überzeugen ist keine Wissenschaft, sondern eine Kunst.
Advertising is fundamentally persuasion and persuasion happens to be not a science, but an art.
Werbung & MarketingWilliam BernbachDu kannst etwas Wahres über dein Produkt sagen, aber niemand wird zuhören. Du musst es so sagen, dass Menschen ein Gefühl zum Produkt aufbauen. Denn wenn sie es nicht fühlen, wird nichts passieren.
You can say the right thing about a product and nobody will listen. You've got to say it in such a way that people will feel it in their gut. Because if they don't feel it, nothing will happen.
Werbung & MarketingWilliam BernbachIt is insight into human nature that is the key to the communicator's skill. For whereas the writer is concerned with what he puts into his writings, the communicator is concerned with what the reader gets out of it. He therefore becomes a student of how people read or listen.
William BernbachIf your advertising goes unnoticed, everything else is academic.
William BernbachOur job is to sell our clients' merchandise... not ourselves. Our job is to kill the cleverness that makes us shine instead of the product. Our job is to simplify, to tear away the unrelated, to pluck out the weeds that are smothering the product message.
William Bernbach