E. St. Elmo Lewis

Thinkers1872 to 1948Advertising writer

Works

  • Side Talks about Advertising, The Western Druggist, 1899

In Thinking Tools

Known for

An American advertising advocate commonly credited with the sequence attention, interest, desire, and action that became the AIDA model.

Caveat: The attribution rests largely on E. K. Strong's 1925 account, and a three-step version of the formula appeared anonymously in Printers' Ink in 1898.

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