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Ogilvy on Advertising

By David Ogilvy

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“a book that I recommended recently at work is uh Oulvie on advertising.”

Speaker: Albert Cheng▶ Watch at ~1:19:00approx.

Growth's job is to connect users to your product's value — so staff teams around each stage of the user journey.

As a consumer subscription matures, the biggest lever isn't new users — it's current-user retention and resurrecting the dormant.

Oscillate between finding the right mountain and climbing it — but do it insight by insight, not just at strategy level.

Make your free product a live, rationed taste of everything paid can do — not a walled-off basic tier.

Durable habit-forming products stand on three legs: a tight core loop, a long-horizon metagame, and an accumulating profile.

Don't manufacture virality — instrument where users already share, then make those exact moments 5-10x more delightful.

Set an audacious experiment-volume goal — not to hit it, but to force the conversations that unlock a whole experimentation culture.

Find the moments where users feel bad, and flip the product to reinforce progress instead of failure.

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