LONG COPY IS GOOD
For decades, we’ve been told that people don’t like reading long copy. They’re busy. They don’t have time to read our ads.
Maybe.
old palmolive ad by claude hopkins
Long copy can work, as long is it matters to your reader.
What if the truth was that people just didn’t have time to read long ads that didn’t provide them with much value?
The Hopkins approach took this old adage to task time and time again. Long copy can sell, as long as it is helpful to the customer.