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An Informal History of Advertising
EDITOR'S NOTE: Some have called this ad, from a December 1932 Fortune magazine, the best agency self-promotion ever written. (The agency was Erwin, Wasey & Company.) You're obviously familiar with the business cliche, "Work smarter, not harder." Forget it. Put simply, what separates great agencies from all others is that they work smarter. And harder.

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