Tag Archives: advertising

Why your advertising sucks. You forgot why you hired your agency.

Share Some peo­ple who get divorced from or break up with a lover often talk about how they for­got why they ever got involved with their spe­cial some­one in the first place. Or they just won­der what hap­pened to the love. As if it was a mag­i­cal thing that came and went with the wind. These

New post on Agency Blog — Thank you for sharing

Share Part of the creative’s job these days is to develop ways to encour­age shar­ing a new cam­paign. It’s no longer enough to cre­ate bril­liant cre­ative that con­nects with the audi­ence. Now, cre­ative needs to be so pow­er­ful that it encour­ages “engage­ment” and “shar­ing.” Read the rest here.

Personal time. Sometimes you have to take some from social media too.

Share It’s been a few weeks since I posted here and for good rea­son. But this really isn’t the time or place to talk about it. (If you’re my Face­book friend and you know me per­son­ally, you already know why I haven’t posted.) I’ve writ­ten here before about the need to post fre­quently and main­tain

Why your advertising sucks part 6. You’re scared you might offend someone.

Share Ever met some­one who never takes sides. Never makes a clear deci­sion. Always wants the group to decide so he doesn’t run the risk of mak­ing any­one upset. You prob­a­bly called this per­son wishy washy, inde­ci­sive or maybe even weak. And never a leader. Now imag­ine this per­son is your brand. A lot of

What the hell inspires me? Actually, you can.

Share As a writer and cre­ative per­son, inspi­ra­tion is some­thing I’m sup­posed to know a lot about. I shouldn’t need your help, because I’m inspired to write witty, inter­est­ing things all the time, right? Cer­tainly I’ve got a direct line to the muse? Unfor­tu­nately, there’s no bat phone for writ­ers. Arti­cle con­tin­ues here on agency

Are “digital” creatives the future for traditional shops?

Share There’s been a lot of dis­cus­sion lately about what the future’s cre­ative depart­ment should look like and who it should be headed by. Do tra­di­tional shops need to get rid of their old guard and make way for lead­ers and prac­ti­tion­ers steeped in the tra­di­tions of the dig­i­tal shops? Surely they need to get rid

Why your advertising sucks part 5. It’s designed to make you feel good.

Share Too many mar­ket­ing depart­ments spend count­less hours navel gaz­ing, try­ing to find a omni­scient inner-voice. This ora­cle is sup­posed to com­mu­ni­cate who they are as a com­pany and what they need to tell their cus­tomers so that they will finally under­stand the value they offer the world. It never works. Sorry, navel gaz­ers, your belly

Why your advertising sucks part 4: You want it to do everything.

Share Image via Wikipedia Quick, how many copy points can you fit into a 60 sec­ond radio spot? The answer should be one. But many ads that really suck the big one are about two or three things – maybe even more. This is real easy to observe in a print ad. Just open your local

Hey, account guy, where’s your book?

Share Image by Street­Fly JZ via Flickr Every cre­ative in the busi­ness has a port­fo­lio. It’s our call­ing card, our proof of worth, and our stamp of iden­tity all rolled into one. Resume? Why do peo­ple even have those when a book says so much more about your abil­ity to work won­ders day in and day out?