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+*** START OF THE PROJECT GUTENBERG EBOOK 77052 ***
+
+
+
+
+
+
+ An Idea
+ That Saved a Business
+
+
+
+
+ An Idea
+ That Saved a Business
+
+ _By_
+ Leonard Dreyfuss
+
+ Privately printed for
+ The United Advertising Corporation
+ 1918
+
+
+
+
+ _Copyright 1918
+ by
+ United Advertising Corporation_
+
+
+
+
+The Idea
+
+
+The General Manager of a large Department Store sat in his study
+one night, puffing away at a big black cigar, with a real worried
+expression upon his face. Things were not right down at the Store.
+
+Two months previous he had accepted the position as General Manager,
+and it had been gradually dawning upon him that he was waging a losing
+fight. The Store had an equipment and over-head based upon a total
+annual business of seven million dollars and was barely doing four.
+
+For days he had been reviewing his Organization; the activities of his
+competitors, the possibilities of the City itself, the opportunities
+for the elimination of expense that might serve to reduce the
+over-head. It was a brain racking circle of thoughts and figures that
+seemed to lead nowhere but back to the starting point.
+
+Sitting in his Study he tried his best to find a solution of the
+ever-increasing problem. Musing upon the situation aloud he said,
+“boiled down to a single sentence the problem seems to be this--how am
+I going to get the greatest amount of money in the shortest possible
+time?” The next thought was “to whom shall I look as an example of how
+that can be accomplished--who gets the greatest amount of money in the
+shortest possible time?” Suddenly he sat up as the thought struck him
+forcibly--“why, it’s the Circus that in the shortest space of time
+produces the greatest result.”
+
+He couldn’t shake the idea and the next morning he had determined that
+he would seek out the General Manager of the largest Circus Company
+traveling the Country and ask him to what it was they attributed their
+success.
+
+The General Manager was a man who, like most true Executives, acts on
+impulse, and he made up his mind that he would take the first train to
+where the Circus was showing and talk with its General Manager.
+
+Fortunately the Circus was then located in a City about one hundred
+miles distant, and the General Manager made the trip.
+
+In conference with the Circus man the next day he told him what he had
+in mind. “You folks,” he said, “it seems to me, more than any other
+business, get the greatest amount of money in the shortest possible
+time--how do you do it?”
+
+The Circus man laughed. “It is more simple than you think,” he said.
+“We simply are most careful students of advertising; we plan and place
+our advertising so that ALL THE PEOPLE know when we shall arrive
+and how long we shall stay. We have found that some people read the
+newspapers, a great number; and some ride in Street Cars, quite a
+few; but that ALL PEOPLE who can come to our Circus use the great
+outdoors. Therefore, we spend eighty per cent. of the money we have
+for advertising, outdoors. By the use of outdoor publicity we get our
+greatest ‘punch.’ The Poster offers a use of color and size that
+dominates, and the eye cannot escape it. Then we so build our copy that
+‘he who runs is compelled to read.’ We are specialists in evolving
+compelling copy--we are psychologists who have accurately gauged the
+public’s mind. We cater to the great masses, rich and poor alike. We
+must understand humanity in its entirety. So we use the Poster and
+painted signs--we tell our message in color and size and we reiterate
+it on every Highway and Byway until you cannot escape the message of
+the Circus and its appeal.”
+
+The two men talked for a number of hours, and finally the General
+Manager said, “if your plan is a success for the Circus, why not for
+some other business? Is there any particular reason why your method can
+only be successful for a Circus Company?”
+
+“No,” said the Circus man, “I think the method itself is sound and
+would, to a large degree, prove efficient for mostly any business, if
+as carefully planned as ours.”
+
+The General Manager of the large Department Store, riding back to his
+City, thought over all that the Circus man had told him, and this one
+thought persisted in his mind--“Why not for the Department Store?”
+
+Next day he laid plans for an Outdoor Advertising Campaign. He called
+in his Advertising Manager and a Representative of the Outdoor
+Advertising Company of his City, and said to them, “I want to place
+outdoor advertisements so that, no matter where you stand on any widely
+traveled avenue in this City at any point of circulation, you will be
+greeted by a dominant reminder of our Store. I am going to make this
+Institution _synonymous_ with _shopping_. I am going to so constantly
+reiterate that message, and I intend to do it in so attractive a way
+and with such compelling copy that the public will be unconsciously
+attracted to us in larger numbers than ever before. I am going to
+inaugurate within such changes as will make OURS the finest place
+to shop, rendering unquestionable service and having a ‘come again’
+atmosphere about it; and I will look to the outdoor advertising that
+we will do to help build for us this prestige that, to my mind, is so
+necessary for an Institution such as ours.”
+
+The General Manager was an enthusiast not given to half measures--one
+of those leaders of men who act instinctively and is nine-tenths right.
+
+He said to the Advertising Manager, “I have set a figure of twenty
+thousand dollars as my limit for this Outdoor Campaign, and I want
+you to buy the most dominant Outdoor Display that was ever planned in
+this City. I want to go over every bit of the copy with you before it
+is finally executed, and I want the copy changed every month with a
+complete re-arrangement of both color scheme and message. I want to
+make, as I stated before, _our Institution synonymous with shopping_.”
+
+Seven years have gone by, and the General Manager is President of his
+Company, which is now doing some twelve million dollars’ worth of
+business yearly.
+
+No, the increase of eight million dollars in their business is not
+due entirely to this wonderful Outdoor Campaign that was put forth.
+The untiring energy of the General Manager, his far-sightedness and
+ability in re-organizing his Institution, have all gone to make this
+Department Store the wonderful business it is. It is significant that
+today his Company is still spending eighteen thousand dollars per year
+for Outdoor Advertising.
+
+The General Manager said to me the other day, “I believe in our Outdoor
+Advertising because I have proven its value. It tells my message _to
+all the people_: To the Foreigners and the Illiterates who cannot read
+the newspapers and have money to spend, and who can absorb a simple
+message told to them, pictorially and in large size and color--to
+the _school girl who is the mother of tomorrow_, and to the busy man
+who rides in his motor car to and from his factory and glances only
+occasionally at his newspaper.
+
+“Mind you I hold no brief for Outdoor Advertising alone--I am a
+consistant user of newspaper space, probably the largest in this City
+today, but I attribute the first growth and stimulus of our business to
+the wide-spreading use I made of Outdoor Publicity.
+
+“I do not believe that a Department Store can be successfully
+advertised by Outdoor Advertising alone, any more than I believe it
+can be most successfully advertised by newspaper advertising alone.
+I believe that a Department Store is best served by a judicious
+combination of both.”
+
+This General Manager, as I said before, is President of his Institution
+today, one of the wisest men in the Department Store field in America.
+
+ And the best part of this Story is that
+ it is _absolutely true_ and was told to
+ the writer almost as set down.
+
+
+
+
+NOTE
+
+
+Our organization has the advantage of a merchandising experience
+covering a period of 40 years. We have served clients who have grown
+from infant industry to corporations doing fifty million dollars or
+more per year.
+
+We have carefully collected and compiled sales and advertising data, a
+great deal of which is applicable to all business.
+
+We have a sane, workable plan we should like to present to you.
+
+
+UNITED ADVERTISING CORPORATION.
+
+[Illustration: _Advertising compels the trend of trade_
+
+UNITED ADVERTISING CORPORATION]
+
+
+
+
+United Advertising Corporation
+
+ Samuel Pratt _President_
+ Leonard Dreyfuss _Vice-President_
+ Alfred V. Van Beuren, _Secretary-Treasurer_
+
+
+Specializing in Outdoor Advertising
+
+ _Throughout the United States
+ and Canada_
+
+
+Executive Offices
+
+ ONE WEST 34th STREET AT FIFTH AVENUE
+ New York City
+
+
+Operating and Affiliated Companies
+
+ Newark Poster Advertising Co. _Newark, N. J._
+ Newark Sign Co. _Newark, N. J._
+ New Haven Poster Advertising Co., _New Haven, Conn._
+ New Haven Sign Co. _New Haven, Conn._
+ Bridgeport Outdoor Advertising Co., _Bridgeport, Conn._
+ Van Beuren & N. Y. Bill Posting Co., _New York, N. Y._
+ American Posting Service, _Chicago, Ill._
+ Dallas Poster Advertising Co. _Dallas, Tex._
+ Edwards Co. _Waco, Tex._
+ Consolidated Bill Posting Co. _Louisville, Ky._
+
+
+
+
+ Printed by
+ The Price & Lee Co., of N. J.
+ The Art Press
+ Newark, New Jersey
+
+
+
+
+Transcriber’s notes
+
+
+Extraneous closing quotation mark on page 14 removed. All other apparent
+punctuation errors remain unchanged.
+
+Spelling error “consistant” on page 14 left uncorrected.
+
+
+*** END OF THE PROJECT GUTENBERG EBOOK 77052 ***
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+<div style='text-align:center'>*** START OF THE PROJECT GUTENBERG EBOOK 77052 ***</div>
+
+
+
+<hr class="chap x-ebookmaker-drop">
+<div class="chapter">
+
+
+<h1>
+An Idea<br>
+That Saved a Business
+</h1>
+</div>
+
+
+<hr class="chap x-ebookmaker-drop">
+<div class="chapter">
+<p><span class="pagenum" id="Page_1">[Pg 1]</span></p>
+
+
+<p class="center">An Idea
+That Saved a Business</p>
+
+<p class="center"><i>By</i><br>
+Leonard Dreyfuss</p>
+
+<p class="center">Privately printed for<br>
+The United Advertising Corporation<br>
+1918</p>
+</div>
+
+<hr class="chap x-ebookmaker-drop">
+<div class="chapter">
+
+<p><span class="pagenum" id="Page_2">[Pg 2]</span></p>
+
+
+<p class="center"><i>Copyright 1918<br>
+by<br>
+United Advertising Corporation</i></p>
+</div>
+
+
+<hr class="chap x-ebookmaker-drop">
+<div class="chapter">
+
+<p><span class="pagenum" id="Page_3">[Pg 3]</span></p>
+
+
+ <h2 class="nobreak" id="The_Idea">
+ The Idea
+ </h2>
+</div>
+
+
+<p>The General Manager of a
+large Department Store sat
+in his study one night, puffing
+away at a big black cigar,
+with a real worried expression
+upon his face. Things were not
+right down at the Store.</p>
+
+<p>Two months previous he had
+accepted the position as General
+Manager, and it had been gradually
+dawning upon him that he
+was waging a losing fight. The
+Store had an equipment and over-head
+based upon a total annual
+<span class="pagenum" id="Page_4">[Pg 4]</span>business of seven million dollars
+and was barely doing four.</p>
+
+<p>For days he had been reviewing
+his Organization; the activities
+of his competitors, the possibilities
+of the City itself, the opportunities
+for the elimination of
+expense that might serve to reduce
+the over-head. It was a brain
+racking circle of thoughts and figures
+that seemed to lead nowhere
+but back to the starting point.</p>
+
+<p>Sitting in his Study he tried his
+best to find a solution of the ever-increasing
+problem. Musing upon
+the situation aloud he said, “boiled
+down to a single sentence the
+problem seems to be this—how
+am I going to get the greatest
+<span class="pagenum" id="Page_5">[Pg 5]</span>amount of money in the shortest
+possible time?” The next
+thought was “to whom shall I
+look as an example of how that
+can be accomplished—who gets
+the greatest amount of money in
+the shortest possible time?” Suddenly
+he sat up as the thought
+struck him forcibly—“why, it’s
+the Circus that in the shortest
+space of time produces the greatest
+result.”</p>
+
+<p>He couldn’t shake the idea and
+the next morning he had determined
+that he would seek out the
+General Manager of the largest
+Circus Company traveling the
+Country and ask him to what it
+was they attributed their success.</p>
+
+<p><span class="pagenum" id="Page_6">[Pg 6]</span></p>
+
+<p>The General Manager was a
+man who, like most true Executives,
+acts on impulse, and he
+made up his mind that he would
+take the first train to where the
+Circus was showing and talk with
+its General Manager.</p>
+
+<p>Fortunately the Circus was then
+located in a City about one hundred
+miles distant, and the General
+Manager made the trip.</p>
+
+<p>In conference with the Circus
+man the next day he told him
+what he had in mind. “You folks,”
+he said, “it seems to me, more
+than any other business, get the
+greatest amount of money in the
+shortest possible time—how do
+you do it?”</p>
+
+<p><span class="pagenum" id="Page_7">[Pg 7]</span></p>
+
+<p>The Circus man laughed. “It
+is more simple than you think,”
+he said. “We simply are most
+careful students of advertising;
+we plan and place our advertising
+so that ALL THE PEOPLE
+know when we shall arrive and
+how long we shall stay. We have
+found that some people read the
+newspapers, a great number; and
+some ride in Street Cars, quite a
+few; but that ALL PEOPLE who
+can come to our Circus use the
+great outdoors. Therefore, we
+spend eighty per cent. of the
+money we have for advertising,
+outdoors. By the use of outdoor
+publicity we get our greatest
+‘punch.’ The Poster offers a use
+<span class="pagenum" id="Page_8">[Pg 8]</span>of color and size that dominates,
+and the eye cannot escape it. Then
+we so build our copy that ‘he who
+runs is compelled to read.’ We are
+specialists in evolving compelling
+copy—we are psychologists who
+have accurately gauged the public’s
+mind. We cater to the great
+masses, rich and poor alike. We
+must understand humanity in its
+entirety. So we use the Poster
+and painted signs—we tell our
+message in color and size and we
+reiterate it on every Highway and
+Byway until you cannot escape the
+message of the Circus and its appeal.”</p>
+
+<p>The two men talked for a number
+of hours, and finally the General
+<span class="pagenum" id="Page_9">[Pg 9]</span>Manager said, “if your plan
+is a success for the Circus, why
+not for some other business? Is
+there any particular reason why
+your method can only be successful
+for a Circus Company?”</p>
+
+<p>“No,” said the Circus man, “I
+think the method itself is sound
+and would, to a large degree,
+prove efficient for mostly any business,
+if as carefully planned as
+ours.”</p>
+
+<p>The General Manager of the
+large Department Store, riding
+back to his City, thought over all
+that the Circus man had told him,
+and this one thought persisted in
+his mind—“Why not for the Department
+Store?”</p>
+
+<p><span class="pagenum" id="Page_10">[Pg 10]</span></p>
+
+<p>Next day he laid plans for an
+Outdoor Advertising Campaign.
+He called in his Advertising Manager
+and a Representative of the
+Outdoor Advertising Company of
+his City, and said to them, “I
+want to place outdoor advertisements
+so that, no matter where
+you stand on any widely traveled
+avenue in this City at any point of
+circulation, you will be greeted by
+a dominant reminder of our Store.
+I am going to make this Institution
+<i>synonymous</i> with <i>shopping</i>. I
+am going to so constantly reiterate
+that message, and I intend to
+do it in so attractive a way and
+with such compelling copy that
+the public will be unconsciously attracted
+<span class="pagenum" id="Page_11">[Pg 11]</span>to us in larger numbers
+than ever before. I am going to
+inaugurate within such changes
+as will make OURS the finest
+place to shop, rendering unquestionable
+service and having a
+‘come again’ atmosphere about it;
+and I will look to the outdoor advertising
+that we will do to help
+build for us this prestige that, to
+my mind, is so necessary for an
+Institution such as ours.”</p>
+
+<p>The General Manager was an
+enthusiast not given to half measures—one
+of those leaders of men
+who act instinctively and is nine-tenths
+right.</p>
+
+<p>He said to the Advertising
+Manager, “I have set a figure of
+<span class="pagenum" id="Page_12">[Pg 12]</span>twenty thousand dollars as my
+limit for this Outdoor Campaign,
+and I want you to buy the most
+dominant Outdoor Display that
+was ever planned in this City. I
+want to go over every bit of the
+copy with you before it is finally
+executed, and I want the copy
+changed every month with a complete
+re-arrangement of both color
+scheme and message. I want to
+make, as I stated before, <i>our Institution
+synonymous with shopping</i>.”</p>
+
+<p>Seven years have gone by, and
+the General Manager is President
+of his Company, which is
+now doing some twelve million
+dollars’ worth of business yearly.</p>
+
+<p><span class="pagenum" id="Page_13">[Pg 13]</span></p>
+
+<p>No, the increase of eight million
+dollars in their business is not
+due entirely to this wonderful
+Outdoor Campaign that was put
+forth. The untiring energy of the
+General Manager, his far-sightedness
+and ability in re-organizing
+his Institution, have all gone to
+make this Department Store the
+wonderful business it is. It is significant
+that today his Company
+is still spending eighteen thousand
+dollars per year for Outdoor Advertising.</p>
+
+<p>The General Manager said to
+me the other day, “I believe in
+our Outdoor Advertising because
+I have proven its value. It tells
+my message <i>to all the people</i>: To
+<span class="pagenum" id="Page_14">[Pg 14]</span>the Foreigners and the Illiterates
+who cannot read the newspapers
+and have money to spend, and
+who can absorb a simple message
+told to them, pictorially and in
+large size and color—to the <i>school
+girl who is the mother of tomorrow</i>,
+and to the busy man who
+rides in his motor car to and from
+his factory and glances only occasionally
+at his newspaper.</p>
+
+<p>“Mind you I hold no brief for
+Outdoor Advertising alone—I am
+a <a id="consistant"></a>consistant user of newspaper
+space, probably the largest in this
+City today, but I attribute the
+first growth and stimulus of our
+business to the wide-spreading use
+I made of Outdoor Publicity.</p>
+
+<p><span class="pagenum" id="Page_15">[Pg 15]</span></p>
+
+<p>“I do not believe that a Department
+Store can be successfully
+advertised by Outdoor Advertising
+alone, any more than I
+believe it can be most successfully
+advertised by newspaper advertising
+alone. I believe that a Department
+Store is best served by
+a judicious combination of both.”</p>
+
+<p>This General Manager, as I
+said before, is President of his Institution
+today, one of the wisest
+men in the Department Store field
+in America.</p>
+
+<p class="center">
+ And the best part of this Story is that<br>
+ it is <i>absolutely true</i> and was told to<br>
+ the writer almost as set down.
+</p>
+
+
+<hr class="chap x-ebookmaker-drop">
+<div class="chapter">
+
+
+ <h2 class="nobreak" id="NOTE">
+ NOTE
+ </h2>
+</div>
+
+
+<p>Our organization has the advantage of
+a merchandising experience covering a
+period of 40 years. We have served clients
+who have grown from infant industry
+to corporations doing fifty million
+dollars or more per year.</p>
+
+<p>We have carefully collected and compiled
+sales and advertising data, a great
+deal of which is applicable to all business.</p>
+
+<p>We have a sane, workable plan we
+should like to present to you.</p>
+
+
+<p class="center"><span class="smcap">United Advertising Corporation.</span></p>
+
+<figure class="figcenter illowp83" id="image017" style="max-width: 20%;">
+ <img class="w100" src="images/i_017.jpg" alt="">
+ <figcaption>
+ <p><i>Advertising
+ compels
+ the trend of trade</i></p>
+ <p>UNITED
+ ADVERTISING CORPORATION</p>
+ </figcaption>
+</figure>
+
+
+<hr class="chap x-ebookmaker-drop">
+<div class="chapter">
+
+
+ <h2 class="nobreak" id="United_Advertising_Corporation">
+ United Advertising Corporation
+ </h2>
+</div>
+
+
+<table class="autotable">
+<tr>
+<td class="tdl">Samuel Pratt</td>
+<td class="tdr"><i>President</i><br></td>
+</tr>
+<tr>
+<td class="tdl">Leonard Dreyfuss</td>
+<td class="tdr"><i>Vice-President</i><br></td>
+</tr>
+<tr>
+<td class="tdl">Alfred V. Van Beuren,</td>
+<td class="tdr"><i>Secretary-Treasurer</i></td>
+</tr>
+</table>
+
+
+<p class="ph2" style="margin-top:2em">Specializing in Outdoor Advertising</p>
+
+<p class="center">
+ <i>Throughout the United States</i><br>
+ <i>and Canada</i>
+</p>
+
+
+<p class="center" style="margin-top:4em">
+ Executive Offices<br>
+ ONE WEST 34th STREET AT FIFTH AVENUE<br>
+ <span class="smcap">New York City</span>
+</p>
+
+
+<p class="center" style="margin-top:4em">Operating and Affiliated Companies</p>
+
+<table class="autotable">
+<tr>
+<td class="tdl">Newark Poster Advertising Co.</td>
+<td class="tdr"><i>Newark, N. J.</i><br></td>
+</tr>
+<tr>
+<td class="tdl">Newark Sign Co.</td>
+<td class="tdr"><i>Newark, N. J.</i><br></td>
+</tr>
+<tr>
+<td class="tdl">New Haven Poster Advertising Co.,</td>
+<td class="tdr"><i>New Haven, Conn.</i><br></td>
+</tr>
+<tr>
+<td class="tdl">New Haven Sign Co.</td>
+<td class="tdr"><i>New Haven, Conn.</i><br></td>
+</tr>
+<tr>
+<td class="tdl">Bridgeport Outdoor Advertising Co.,<br></td>
+<td class="tdr"><i>Bridgeport, Conn.</i></td>
+</tr>
+<tr>
+<td class="tdl">Van Beuren &amp; N. Y. Bill Posting Co.,</td>
+<td class="tdr"><i>New York, N. Y.</i><br></td>
+</tr>
+<tr>
+<td class="tdl">American Posting Service,</td>
+<td class="tdr"><i>Chicago, Ill.</i><br></td>
+</tr>
+<tr>
+<td class="tdl">Dallas Poster Advertising Co.</td>
+<td class="tdr"><i>Dallas, Tex.</i><br></td>
+</tr>
+<tr>
+<td class="tdl">Edwards Co.</td>
+<td class="tdr"><i>Waco, Tex.</i><br></td>
+</tr>
+<tr>
+<td class="tdl">Consolidated Bill Posting Co.</td>
+<td class="tdr"><i>Louisville, Ky.</i></td>
+</tr>
+</table>
+
+
+<hr class="chap x-ebookmaker-drop">
+
+<div class="chapter">
+<p class="center">
+ Printed by<br>
+ The Price &amp; Lee Co., of N. J.<br>
+ The Art Press<br>
+ Newark, New Jersey
+</p>
+</div>
+
+<hr class="chap x-ebookmaker-drop">
+<div class="chapter">
+<div class="transnote">
+<p class="ph1">Transcriber’s notes</p>
+<p>Extraneous closing quotation mark on <a href="#Page_14">page 14</a> removed. All other apparent punctuation errors remain unchanged.</p>
+<p>Spelling error “<a href="#consistant">consistant</a>” on <a href="#Page_14">page 14</a> left uncorrected.</p>
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+
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