Advertising Is Good For You

Trust me on this

When someone says

“I don’t want to point fingers,”

get ready for a sh*t storm.

Great advice

 

Via  David Dooley.

Clients say the darnedest things

Here's a series of posters created to raise money for the Temple Street Children's Hospital in Dublin.

Each poster relates the kind of comments creative people hear from their clients every day.

Via BB-Blog

And that goes for copywriting, too

Found this on Pinterest. The link to its origin is dead. So I have no idea who created this.

This print was created by Colin Harman and is available for purchase on his site.

 

Presenting to clients can be brutal

Click here to see a humorous take on what's it's like to present advertising ideas to clients.

Good advice for advertising people

Click here to read about a client whom I was tempted to kill.

Via Cakehead

"Clients don't understand their success is reliant on standing out, not fitting in."

— Don Draper

 

Came across this Mad Men quotation while reading the thesis of a friend who's completing her Masters in Graphic Design.

Anonymous CEO talks about what it's like to be an advertising creative these days:

 
And how is the economy affecting YOUR industry?

Found in Advertising Age

Another kind of wordsmith: the double-talker

This week, I was in a conference call with seven people, one of whom is a master of deflecting responsibility.

After the rest of us cobbled out a plan of action, we asked if he agreed with us. Here is his reply.

This guy's also a consummate finger-pointer when things go awry. Try to contain your surprise.

Inspiration

Substitute 'copywriter' for 'designer' and it still works.

Found at Ffffound!

Bad advertising client's spouse

I've only been stiffed by a client twice.

One client was a CPA, the other was a clown.

Literally, a clown.

Some might say it served me right.

Hey, swingers and polygamists, I got your plan right here

Recently I was asked to include in my copy this phrase: A plan as flexible as your lifestyle.

Any twenty-somethings out there feel like that phrase speaks directly to you? Because you're who I was supposed to be targeting.