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Long-time dean of
Madison Avenue
theorists, Reeves
invented the doctrine
of the Unique Selling
Proposition (USP) and
used it to help build
the Ted Bates
advertising agency to
an annual billing rate
of nearly $300 million
by the time he
relinquished the
chairmanship in 1966.
Reeves' USP for Colgate
Dental Cream - "it cleans your breath while it cleans your
teeth" - kept it at the top of the US toothpaste market for
almost a quarter of a century, although, as Reeves
admitted, every dentifrice cleans your breath. He was the
arch-adept at solving the problem which he most neatly
expressed in the story of the client who came into his
office, threw two newly-minted half-dollars on the desk
and said: "Mine is the one on the left. You prove it's
better." His success at building brand-loyalty made the
fortune of a whole range of items, from Viceroy cigarettes
("20,000 filters") to Carter's Little Liver Pills ("Helps you
break the laxative habit"). But possibly his most significant
job was the $1.5 million television-spot campaign which he
wrote for Eisenhower in 1952. Students of democracy are
still arguing about the ethics of selling presidents like soap