This document provides advice on how to get a first job in advertising. It recommends focusing a portfolio on products that have unique selling propositions or advantages over competitors. The portfolio should demonstrate an understanding of advertising fundamentals like identifying a product's unique selling proposition and focusing on its benefits in a simple, logical way. Overall, the document emphasizes learning from professionals in the industry and focusing on communicating a product's advantages rather than puns or clever slogans.
Het Lovebrand Model helpt u klanten en medewerkers te vinden en te binden. Het Lovebrand Model creëert ware liefde voor uw merk en vergroot uw reputatie.
Het Lovebrand Model helpt u klanten en medewerkers te vinden en te binden. Het Lovebrand Model creëert ware liefde voor uw merk en vergroot uw reputatie.
Plug M.E. N2U Atlanta's premiere branding and marketing firm brand standards book. This guidebook outlines the brand guidelines and standards of the company and helps to define the overall brand strategy, design, and direction of the company.
Want your own Brand Book? Learn more about working with me here: http://www.endigorae.com/design
How i judge advertising - CLB củ khoai tây Thanh Lâm Trần
Chúng tôi mời 3 khách mời: 2 Planners- Lâm Trần và Cường Nguyễn và 1 Creative- Thành Ngô đến chia sẻ quan điểm: "Tôi đánh giá quảng cáo như thế nào?" Một buổi offline thành công với rất nhiều bài học hữu ích.
We invited 2 Planners- Lam Tran & Cuong Nguyen, and 1 Creative- Thanh Ngo to come and share how they judge/ evaluate advertising work. Brilliant offline event with so much to learn!
...
bởi CLB những chiến lược gia củ khoai tây
https://www.facebook.com/groups/chienluocgiacukhoaitay
A selection of case studies from my time at Designation.com Ltd, a Reading based brand and marketing consultancy. The six examples show many aspects of the work we chose to focus on in 2008.
Stand for something and do something: Breakthrough marketing of big brands.
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Marketing today's modern brands absolutely requires that a brand stand for something that is relevant to consumers -- so that they will want to engage in a conversation with you. Then, the brand has to engage in the conversation consistently, over time and in a variety of channels.
As a case study we'll look at the work Leo Burnett has
done for P&G Secret. The 50-year purpose and heritage
of the Secret brand has been to help women be fearless
by giving them the confidence they need to face any
stressful situation.
Nothing is more stressful than bullying. And, we know
that bullying has long-term effects on self-esteem; for girls to grow up to be fearless women, our imperative was to help them overcome bullying themselves and to
take a stand to help other girls.
Mean “stinks”, and Secret stands against everything that
stinks. But we do it in a powerful and empowering way -
- one that encourages girls to Gang Up for Good.
Versiunea digitala a celei de-a cincea editii a ghidului Public Relations Report, o publicatie anuala dedicata comunitatii de relatii publice din Romania, realizata de Evensys pentru PR Forum 2012. Ghidul include lista agentiilor de
relatii publice importante de pe piata locala, agentii de monitorizare si consultanti online.
Plug M.E. N2U Atlanta's premiere branding and marketing firm brand standards book. This guidebook outlines the brand guidelines and standards of the company and helps to define the overall brand strategy, design, and direction of the company.
Want your own Brand Book? Learn more about working with me here: http://www.endigorae.com/design
How i judge advertising - CLB củ khoai tây Thanh Lâm Trần
Chúng tôi mời 3 khách mời: 2 Planners- Lâm Trần và Cường Nguyễn và 1 Creative- Thành Ngô đến chia sẻ quan điểm: "Tôi đánh giá quảng cáo như thế nào?" Một buổi offline thành công với rất nhiều bài học hữu ích.
We invited 2 Planners- Lam Tran & Cuong Nguyen, and 1 Creative- Thanh Ngo to come and share how they judge/ evaluate advertising work. Brilliant offline event with so much to learn!
...
bởi CLB những chiến lược gia củ khoai tây
https://www.facebook.com/groups/chienluocgiacukhoaitay
A selection of case studies from my time at Designation.com Ltd, a Reading based brand and marketing consultancy. The six examples show many aspects of the work we chose to focus on in 2008.
Stand for something and do something: Breakthrough marketing of big brands.
----
Marketing today's modern brands absolutely requires that a brand stand for something that is relevant to consumers -- so that they will want to engage in a conversation with you. Then, the brand has to engage in the conversation consistently, over time and in a variety of channels.
As a case study we'll look at the work Leo Burnett has
done for P&G Secret. The 50-year purpose and heritage
of the Secret brand has been to help women be fearless
by giving them the confidence they need to face any
stressful situation.
Nothing is more stressful than bullying. And, we know
that bullying has long-term effects on self-esteem; for girls to grow up to be fearless women, our imperative was to help them overcome bullying themselves and to
take a stand to help other girls.
Mean “stinks”, and Secret stands against everything that
stinks. But we do it in a powerful and empowering way -
- one that encourages girls to Gang Up for Good.
Versiunea digitala a celei de-a cincea editii a ghidului Public Relations Report, o publicatie anuala dedicata comunitatii de relatii publice din Romania, realizata de Evensys pentru PR Forum 2012. Ghidul include lista agentiilor de
relatii publice importante de pe piata locala, agentii de monitorizare si consultanti online.
Great product teams understand the importance of dissenting feedback. However, a team might drive toward an inferior product because it fixates on a few pieces of positive feedback, or a persuasive product lead might seek out data to support her pet feature. Moving quickly often requires trusting our intuition, but what is the difference between gut instinct and bias?
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A lecture I had in Aalto University in "Brands in Strategic Marketing"-course on 14.2.2011. Talking about advertising agency role in brand building from the planning perspective.
Here are a few tips on selling from David Ogilvy and other experts. Can you sell?
Enter the Search for the World's Greatest Salesperson. Deadline May 16, 2010 at youtube.com/ogilvy
Advertisement Class, Seventh session
Based on the book: Contemporary Advertising and Integrated Marketing Communications, 15th edition
(All photos/videos - copied from the internet, used only for educational purpose)
The noble art of building brands worth sharing for EURIBPolle de Maagt
The EURIB, the European Institute for Brand management, which was founded by Riezebos and where marketeers are educated in brand, design & reputation management. An impressive line up of guest lecturers (Jeroen de Bakker, Jim Stolze, Renee Peeters, Ingmar de Lange, amongst others) trains the marketeers in branding, digital, positioning and reputation management. A line up that makes me wish I could be a student there.
Very similar to Lessius several days ago, with a lot of practical examples, I try to gently convince the students to create stuff worth sharing. To be maniacal in managing expectations. To create acts, not ads. To not only contact consumers when they have to pay an invoice, but to gradually engage them via campaigns AND programs. And that to do this, you have to change companies from the inside. Not by brute force, but by smart projects.
The noble art of building brands worth sharing for Lessius Interactive Market...Polle de Maagt
Acts not ads. I guess trying to change marketeers to do less advertising and more acts from time to time means you have to preach to new marketeers. Well, preaching might not be the right word but nudging or gently convincing to be more about acts pretty much sums it up.
Gently convincing to create stuff worth sharing. To be maniacal in managing expectations. To create acts, not ads. To not only contact consumers when they have to pay an invoice, but to gradually engage them via campaigns AND programs. And that to do this, you have to change companies from the inside. Not by brute force, but by smart projects.
So, here’s to the new class of marketeers at Lessius Mechelen that is prepared to build brands worth sharing and talking about.
Farewell Digital - it was fun while it lastedDave Birss
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Slideshare won't let me add a YouTube video to a Slidecast. Ho hum. So here's a link to the video mentioned halfway through: http://youtu.be/lsjc2uDi1OI
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PLUS - ignore the notes below. They're gibberish. I'd delete them if I could!
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This talk was done at the Society of Digital Agencies Member's Conference in Montreal.
The audience consisted of the top people from the top digital agencies around the world. They may have been more intimidating if they were less hungover.
The talk is aimed at digital agencies. However, people from other marketing disciplines may still get something out of it.
I mention my book in the talk. If you fancy a peek, you can download a free sample at http://userguidetothecreativemind.com
And you can find out more about my company, Additive, at http://getadditive.com
Some tips to make your first space in the advertising industry.Jesus Melero
Some days ago I was invited by Complutense University to talk about planning stuff to young students. It was fun.
Finishing my presentation I decided to share some tips for finding and don't die in the job searching issue.
Hope they are inspiring.
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How To Get Your First Job In Advertising
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2. Dave Trott How to get your first job in advertising
Introduction
Last year, Campaign and Marketing set out to publish a series
of key pieces about our industry that are worth preserving and
celebrating.
Here’s our latest gem. It’s from the 70s, an era when the heady
mixture of fresh advertising thinking that Colletts, BMP and
Saatchis contributed along with a new wave of agencies was – with
the help of the soon-to-expand media independents – to transform
the face of British advertising.
Dave Trott’s How to get your first job in advertising is part of the
powerful advertising record of that decade. When he wrote it, Trott
was a copywriter at BMP, though soon to immortalise his name at
Gold Greenless Trott.
As well as a blindingly simple, logical and timeless guide to how to
bash a portfolio into shape, this is a definitive explanation of what
our industry is here to do: sell stuff, and build the value of brands
by proving the long-term efficacy of the product.
This piece is topped by CST’s managing director, Nick Simons.
Part of the Cagney Group, the agency is staying true to Trott’s
authenticity.
It is introduced by Peter Souter, the deputy chairman of Abbott
Mead Vickers BBDO, who regards Trott as a brilliant, altruistic,
munificent teacher.
Caroline Marshall
Consultant editor
Haymarket Brand Media
3. How to get your first job in advertising Dave Trott Dave Trott How to get your first job in advertising
want to do funny commercials, some who only want to do classy
commercials. But I’ve never worked with a creative who only wants
to do work that sells.
Selling is what we do. At least, it’s supposed to be. So everything
Dave does, or his creative department does and everything he
teaches is based on logic. The logic of selling.
Not that it has to be boring or repetitive. ITV had a viewer’s poll
of The 100 Greatest Ads Of All Time recently, and four of Dave’s
ads were in it. Viewers don’t vote for ads they’re bored with, they
vote for ads they love.
But for Dave it wouldn’t be enough for the viewers just to love the
ads unless the ads worked towards selling. He constantly reminds
me and everyone we work with that selling is what we do. And,
because it’s selling based on logic, it can be questioned, improved
and measured.
But, of course, nobody will buy anything if they zone out of the ads.
So the work needs to be intrusive, fun, engaging and memorable.
It’s not just airy-fairy, arty-farty “creativity”. He doesn’t expect
advertisers to be patrons of the arts and run commercials purely
for the entertainment and amusement of the viewing public. He
expects them to work.
Foreword Which is perhaps why DAD recently presented Dave with The
Thirty years ago, Grange Hill made its first appearance on the BBC, President’s Award (an accolade which they only hand out once
The Deer Hunter won Best Picture at the Oscars, Steve Ovett was every other year).
the sporting man of the moment and the biggest single on the “hit If I was a client putting a pitchlist together, I’d always make sure I
parade” was The Bee Gees’ Stayin’ Alive. had at least one agency on it that I knew for sure was more interested
And Dave Trott wrote How to get your first job in advertising. in using my advertising budget to increase awareness and sales of
Given the mind-boggling scale of change over the past 30 years, my brand, and not just their agency. And I’d be interested in working
nobody would expect something written at the time to have with a man whose sole mission in life is to help my business. Who
relevance today. And yet some of the best young creative directors wrote down, for the benefit of others, the fundamental principles for
in the business got their start by reading it. doing this 30 years ago. And whose thinking will be just as relevant
That’s because, although trends and styles change, great thinking in another 30 years’ time.
never goes out of fashion. Techniques come and go but great Hopefully, after reading this, you will too.
thinking is always great thinking. And, what I notice is that Dave’s
thinking always starts and finishes with selling. Nick Simons
Over the years that I’ve been in the business, I’ve worked with Managing director
some creatives who only want to win awards. Some who only CST
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an act of supreme generosity. It’s a completely philanthropic helping
hand that has been offered to thousands of British kids.
This book says: “You can do it.” More important, it says:
“Here’s how you get started.” Like all great teachers, Trott uses
his vast intellect to make things simple. Any fool can make things
complicated. But it takes real genius to say: “Look, this is just about
working out why someone should go buy the thing you are selling.”
I suspect Dave has never called himself a “creative”. He’s just a
salesman, albeit one of the three greatest salesmen Britain has ever
produced (the others being the posh Dave’s, Abbott and Ogilvy).
Dave’s natural generosity made him want to help the underdog.
Unemployed people are often made to feel like scum by the
employed. So, in the 70s, he set up the DAD creative workshops.
When it turned out there were more people applying than the classes
could accommodate, he took charge of the failures. Everyone who
failed to get on the night class got invited in to see Dave and he
helped them understand how to be better. But the sheer numbers
who crammed into his agency for these “rejects” nights made him
realise there was a need for a basic instruction manual.
So he sat down and wrote one with the simplicity and clarity that
he brought to his timeless ad campaigns.
Me and Dave I’m slightly embarrassed to have been asked to whet your appetite
The truth is, I’m scared of Dave Trott. Common or garden, hide for this book. The danger as warm-up man, given there isn’t a spare
behind the sofa, run to my momma scared. syllable in the booklet itself, is that you overcook it. I’ve got a feeling
It’s his eyes. Eye donor technology was obviously in its infancy in that all I’m doing here is serving as an illustration of how important
1945 but I’m pretty sure that when they found Hitler in the bunker, it is to sell like Dave Trott. But I’d like to take one more leaf out of
someone had already harvested him. Trott has these unblinking, the book and offer you proof of the efficacy of the product.
scary-ass, jet black, Nazi eyes. He looks like he can use them to scan Twenty years ago, I read How To Get Your First Job In Advertising
you, see right through your skin to what’s inside your heart. Those as a penniless student and came to regard it as my bible. Ten years
eyes just KNOW if you are a vacuous bull artist. later, I was the creative director of the biggest and most-awarded
So I never tried to work at any of his agencies. I admired Dave agency in the country at the time. I firmly believe that without this
Trott but I made damned sure I never went anywhere near him. Just book I’d still be writing photocopier brochures.
in case he looked at me with those eyes and found me wanting. I hope it works as effectively for you.
Then a weird thing happened. Over the years I discovered that
Trott was not, in fact, a cold-hearted monster. He was, more than Peter Souter
anything else, a teacher. A brilliant, altruistic, munificent teacher. Deputy chairman
His ability as a teacher is based on simple generosity. This book is Abbott Mead Vickers BBDO
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Dave Trott How to get your first job
1947
Born in Barking, East London
in advertising
N
1965 inety-nine per cent of people trying to get jobs in adver-
O Levels, A Levels at tising believe they are whizz-kids.
Barking Abbey School The one per cent who know they are not (and are des-
perately trying to learn) are the ones who actually get
1966 the jobs. Unless you realise that you do not, at present, know any
Foundation Art, East Ham Tech more about advertising than your mother, you are no use to a good
agency.
1967-71 In fact, your mother may be more useful because she at least buys
Rockerfeller Scholarship, most of the products that agencies are trying to sell.
Pratt Institute, New York
The most common misconception is that good advertising is clever puns.
1971-80 Everyone trying to get a job in advertising has a portfolio full of puns about
BMP products. A pun is only a figure of speech and should be avoided as a rule.
1980-90 Your scintillating personality will not get you a job either because
GGT many creative directors will not see you, just ask you to leave your
portfolio, which will then be one of up to 100 pun collections they
1990-93 will be looking through to see who gets the job.
BST If you believe that your puns are so amazingly original, then
there’s no point in reading further.
1993-03
WTCS As you are still reading, you obviously appreciate that the portfo-
lio you have at present is not good enough to get you a job.
2003-08 This is every applicant’s first big lesson: start putting a new port-
CST folio together.
You will be asking professionals for a job, so the obvious thing
to do is to ask them what sort of portfolio they will be looking for.
Arrange to see lots of people in the business, learn from them, pick
their brains, use them.
Do not try to con them into hiring you, the way you would expect
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a used-car salesman to behave, because they will just smile nicely The thing that makes one product different from any other prod-
and be polite. uct is called its USP. That’s short for Unique Selling Proposition.
Then the next time when you phone to make an appointment, When you pick a product to advertise look at its competition,
they’ll be out. then find what makes yours different.
Don’t try to tell them what you know: get them to tell you what It does not matter if it’s small, or even if it seems like a negative,
they know. just as long as it has something different. Something you can turn
Forget everything your teachers told you, unless of course you into an advantage.
want to be a teacher. The first thing to find out is the price of your product compared
The speed of your progress in the business will be directly related to the competition.
to your willingness to learn. Is it bigger, or smaller?
You are not doing everything right at present. Therefore, the Can it save your life, is it safer than its competitors?
quicker you learn what you are doing wrong, the sooner you can Do you get more of it? Does it last longer?
correct it. If it does not have any of these (or similar) advantages, then for-
get it and find a product that has.
The second big lesson is: if you want to be patted on the back all of the time You are going to have enough difficulty making up a good portfo-
and told how clever you are, then advertising is the wrong business for you. lio from products with advantages.
If a product does not have at least one advantage, leave it alone.
If you think you are more intelligent than the people who are
criticising your work, if you think “they just do not understand”, Now comes the moment of truth.
then you should become a poet or a painter. When a lawyer takes a case he may be trying to make a man ap-
Advertising is all about communication and if one person does pear innocent (if he appears for the defence) or guilty (if he appears
not understand what you are saying, then you have failed. for the prosecution). Either way he will only mention the facts that
It is no good arguing them into it, because if the ad went into the say what he wants to prove.
papers you couldn’t run around to everyone who bought a copy and
argue them into it. For example, if you are selling a cheap, inferior product, you say: ‘Why pay
more?’ Whereas, if you are selling an over-priced, expensive product, you
Now you have wiped the slate clean, there are just three things say: ‘Buy the best.’
to remember at all times: always tell the truth, always use logic and
always be eager to learn. This is just rhetoric. Similarly, if you are selling a glass of water
that is half-empty, you say it is half-full.
There are certain products (colas, soap-powders, chocolate bars A product which is “common” becomes “popular”.
and so on) which are all more or less the same. As with all rules there are times to break them, but not until you
This makes them very difficult to advertise, so they are best left have learnt to use them properly first.
alone until much later. For example, Volkswagen had nothing to make it different except
At present you are trying to put a portfolio together that will that it was a small ugly car.
make you look good, so pick products that have something differ- The ads then focused on how much petrol and money you saved
ent about them. (because it was small), and about how all the company’s effort went
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into making it better not prettier (because it was ugly). The headline then reads:
Like any good argument it only works because you can believe it. “We give you something they don’t: £4 change.”
You can only believe it because it makes sense.
You can work your way up to this sort of stuff but until you know If you are advertising the expensive shirt, put the two side by side
what you are doing keep it simple. with the price tag still on and use the headline:
Do not pick anything as difficult as Volkswagen yet. “If you can’t find the difference, buy the cheap shirt (and that’s
just what you get).”
The best and simplest way of selling a product is to say: ‘It is better than
what you are about to buy.’ You will never sell a £1 shirt to someone who wants a £5 shirt,
and vice versa, so don’t worry about trying. Just get out of the way
So you are not actually talking people into buying something they of the product. Express the product’s benefits as simply as possible
do not want, you are talking to someone about to buy one thing and let it sell itself.
and converting them into spending their money on your product Do not write “clever” little puns like:
instead. “We’re not asking for the shirt off your back”,
The most obvious (and obvious is usually also the best) way to do “You won’t get shirty about the price” or
this is to compare both products in the ad on the page. “Great patterns, off the cuff”.
If you are selling cheap shirts at, say, £1 each, then you find a simi-
lar shirt for about £5. You can see they’re not selling any shirts, they are certainly not
Put them side-by-side and write the price under each. funny, and they are not particularly clever either.
This is the simplest way of selling. All they are is wasted effort on your part.
People looking at this do not think, “what a clever advert”, they If you stop trying to be clever and just be logical, the product will
think, “what a great product”. end up selling itself.
And this is why the man who makes the shirts is paying you to do
his advertising. Now let’s turn to the mechanics of a campaign.
Now take that a step further. As well as a portfolio of puns, the other thing everyone else who
Put five of those £1 shirts (in different patterns) on the left and applies for a job is going to have is lots and lots of unrelated ads.
the single £5 shirt on the right. They may have a dozen different ads on the same product but
The headline then reads: that does not make it a campaign.
“The shirts on the left cost the same as the shirt on the right.” What does make a campaign is unity of thinking throughout.
So, before you even think about writing any ads, think about what
Or place a £1 shirt on the left, along with a £1 tie, £1 cufflinks, £1 you want to say.
belt and £1 aftershave. And place the £5 shirt on the right.
The headline then reads: As you have already seen, nearly every product has some benefit. Your first
“The outfit on the left costs the same as the shirt on the right.” job is to find this. See why people are buying it at present. When you have
found its benefit, this will become your campaign thought.
Or put the £1 shirt on the right (with the price tag still on) and the
£5 shirt on the left (with the price tag still on). This thought when written into a catchy memorable phrase will
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become the strapline. the strategy becomes: ‘We’re better because we’re smaller.’
It is called the strapline because it is always the last thought that
you leave your audience with. Then a series of different ads with different headlines:
Whether on TV or in the press. “Smaller cars use less petrol.”
Let’s go back to the shirts, and suppose we are selling the cheaper “Smaller cars are easier to park”, or
one. “A single person doesn’t need a six-seater car”
Our benefit is our price, all our advertising is directed towards could all use the same strapline:
telling people how much sense it makes to buy a cheaper shirt. “Mini: we’re better because we’re smaller.”
It is the thought we want to leave them with.
The strapline might become: Getting back to portfolios, this is what it should consist of: four to
“An attractive shirt at an attractive price.” five campaigns, allowing about three to five press ads each.
Forget TV at this point, it is a completely different discipline, and
Every headline we write must then fit in with this thought, be- you should not need it to get your first job.
cause all we are actually doing is expressing the same thought in The best products to choose for your ads are those with consumer
lots of different ways. literature available.
So, if the headline is: If there is something you already know a great deal about, this is
“It’s hard to decide which looks better. The shirt or the price”, an ideal product to choose. The reason for this is that you need all
this will be the strapline on the bottom: the information you can get.
“An attractive shirt at an attractive price.”
Before you even think about writing ads, you should find out everything you
Or if the headline becomes: can about the product. Then the benefit will make itself known to you and
“At £5 it looks good. At £1 it looks beautiful”, then the strapline save you having to invent something that no-one will believe anyway.
at the bottom will still be:
“An attractive shirt at an attractive price.” Motorcars are always good subjects because you can go to the
showrooms and get pamphlets or read the road-tests in the motor-
However, if we changed the strategy and decided to talk about ing magazines.
how well our shirt fits, with a headline that said: Wallpapers and paints are also a good choice as you can get leaf-
“Not everyone with a 15.5-inch neck has the same length arms” lets from a decorator’s shop.
(showing that we come in different arm lengths), then the strapline: Make-up, skincare and shampoos also usually have a product
“an attractive shirt at an attractive price” would not be appropriate. benefit (ask someone you know who uses them).
And medicines usually have leaflets included in the package tell-
If we decide to say you are different in some way, then that is your ing you why they are better.
campaign “thought”.
Each headline is then an expression of the different benefits of If you are a writer you might want to put in a bit of body copy, so
this campaign thought (strapline). it is a good idea to learn the best way of writing either from copies
of the New York Art Directors Annual or the New York One Show
If you are selling a Mini and you decide the benefits of a Mini is the size, then Annual.
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The Design and Art Director’s Annual is also good and has a Not only will it give you a better portfolio but you will find that
copy section. And you can probably order all of these books at any people want to hire a junior who is willing to learn, not someone
library. who thinks he already knows it all.
However, you must remember to write the way people talk, not A person like that is only going to cause a lot of problems later.
the way you think advertising people write – it is greasy, slick and
old-fashioned. The only way to learn how to do good work is to continually ex-
pose yourself to it – read the annuals and go to the awards.
If you are an art director, your portfolio will look similar but you There is another very good book to read called From those won-
will need roughs. derful people who gave you Pearl Harbour by Jerry Della Femina.
Roughs are a good idea for an art director and writers wherever
possible. Pictures always make things easier to look at When people tell you what their favourite ad is, ask them if they
But remember roughs should be just that, quick and simple. can remember the name of the product.
You are not being hired for an ability to draw (the agency hires No-one is going to pay you to do an ad that just entertains.
artists for that), you are hired for an ability to think – beautiful Your works should also shock people where possible.
drawings are no evidence of that. Watch people reading a paper or magazine, just flipping pages.
People who draw earn a lot less money than people who think. You have to stop them turning the page, then make them read it.
Of course, unless your shock is relevant to the product it is
The best kind of portfolio to use is about two feet by three pointless.
feet in black zip-up plastic with a spiral binder for acetate pages,
which costs about £10. Finally, if you do not want to go to the effort of putting a new
That way your work is kept clean, it can’t fall out, it always looks portfolio together now, then you may still be able to get a job in a
neat and simple and not messy. “big, bad” agency on your present portfolio.
However, you will find it a lot harder to get into a good agency
Put campaign ads together. later than it is now.
The rule for positioning work in a portfolio is the same as for body copy; the
best work goes at the front and the back. That way, you get people interested
as soon as they start and leave them on a high note at the end.
When you have learned all this, it is as much as anyone can teach
you and if you have done it all properly you should have a good job
in a good agency.
After that you have to learn yourself, by watching other people.
Keep questioning what they are doing, why does it work, why
doesn’t it?
When you go to an interview ask them what is wrong with your
portfolio.Use every interview to improve your portfolio.
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Thought Leaders series
1. Stephen King – What is a brand?
2. Jean-Marie Dru – Disruption
3. Dave Trott – How to get your first job in advertising
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