“I don’t know the rules of grammar… If you’re trying to persuade people to do something, or buy something, it seems to me you should use their language, the language they use every day, the language in which they think. We try to write in the vernacular.” David Ogilvy
If there’s one consistent mistake I’ve made over the years, it’s trying to be too smart.
How does “great” thought or complicated writing help anyone if they can’t understand it?
See, I believe in original thought, and want to make marketing and communications a better profession. I told Valeria Maltoni years ago that I can help businesses and nonprofits become better global citizens by improving communications.
Unless my concepts and ideas are too complicated for the general practitioner.
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