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Attention, persuasion and brand building — learned in the field.

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The Cheat Code to their success

Wells Rich Greene cofounder and theatrical brand strategist / 06

Mary Wells Lawrence Learned to Make Brands Perform

She approached the brand as a production in which the airplane, the uniform, and the television spot all had speaking parts.

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Direct-mail copywriter and author of Breakthrough Advertising / 07

Eugene Schwartz Learned to Read the Market Before Writing the Ad

His central insight was disarmingly practical: the advertisement enters a conversation already underway in the buyer's mind.

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Direct-mail copywriter and author of The Boron Letters / 08

Gary Halbert Learned to Put the Mailing List Before the Manuscript

His most portable lesson was not a headline formula. It was finding people who already had a reason to care.

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Direct-response consultant, copywriter, and business author / 09

Dan Kennedy Made Direct Response a Business Operating System

He taught owners to stop treating promotion as an isolated expense and start connecting it to the economics of the whole business.

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ClickFunnels cofounder and direct-response marketing author / 10

Russell Brunson Learned Funnels by Building the Whole Sale

Before selling software for funnels, he learned why the advertisement, the checkout, and the next offer had to work together.

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