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A great story about marketing and advertising:
About 80 years ago ad man Claude Hopkins had a major problem.
Here it is:
It was Hopkins' job to create advertising to sell Schlitz beer.
Schlitz, an unremarkable beer with nothing to recommend it over any other brew was ranked a miserable 15th in sales in the U.S. beer market.
Claude approached this projec
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