ADon't listen to Mark. Anyone who says ads come out of "marketing departments" is a hack. I bet his ads have starbursts and "Act now!" all over them.Miami Ad is hot since they have the tie-in with Crispin Porter. They have that other campus stuff, but it's pretty bs. I hear the "Germany campus" is a leased one room office. Miami Ad might train you to do Crispin work, which is loved. Burger King, VW, the original Mini-stuff. They are smart, but its mostly geared towards 20-30 year old, cool guys.VCU, I think is the best. It's crazy expensive. They have you paired with account planners/strategists. I think they consistently bring out the smartest people.Creative Circus is where I went. It's about $3500 a quarter. I think it's the best deal for the $ and that is why I went. It's a really good copywriter school. I think the best CW'er school. Alot of my classmates are at Weiden and Kennedy (Nike), The Martin Agency (Geico), Fallon, BBDO etc. All those shops are brimming with people from those creative schools.Portfolio Center is also in Atlanta with CCircus, but it's a designer's school. If you want to be an art director, you'd get a better design sense there, but your ideas won't be as fresh. The have a copywriting program, but regardless of what Hank Richardson tells you, it sucks it.If you want to do great creative, it's about your idea. People say you can't teach creativity, and that's wrong. In the 2 years at the Circus, I worked on 4 projects a week, with the end of the project resulting most everytime in a stick figure drawing. If something works on paper as a stick figure, once you dress it up, it becomes brilliant.Something on paper that sucks, will suck even more when you've shot it with your clients $.You do it, over and over, and over, and over. You come up with enough hack ideas to where you start to understand what is fresh. You study commercials and read Communication Arts and One Show annuals and learn what makes the great work great. "Good is the enemy of great".There's also Brainco in Minnesota. MN has the best shops in my opinion, but Seattle, Portland, LA, Chicago and NY are brimming with them too. I don't know about Brainco's program at all, but knew a guy at BBDO who went to Brainco first and then switched to Circus.School of Visual Arts is one too. Also Chicago Ad School, but I don't know much about them. Also Weiden has some new thing too. I'm sure it's sell-a-kidney expensive.Any school's going to give you a good book, because it's really about how hard you push your ideas yourself. After a ton of projects and a ton of feedback from real world profs, you'll know what it takes to make a Nike ad work.Next step? Call those schools and get some info. The Circus has admissions reps who will answer your questions about the school. Then go visit if you can. Sit in on classes. Talk to students. Get a feel.Do it. It's a great business. If you don't you'll be writing copy for circular dry cleaning ads or product brochures or annual reports or some other bs. Journalists don't make good ad writers. Thinkers do. Philosophy students. Film students. Psych students. Sociology majors. People who know how to look at something from many angles, because that is what you'll do. You are the poet between the salesey client and the bittter and jaded public. Give the client's product a voice people will listen to.Also, buy "Hey Whipple, Squeeze This" by Luke Sullivan. Buy it tomorrow. Start reading it tomorrow. The sooner you understand "concept", the sooner your work will be good.Good luck and thanks in advance for 'best answer'.Hit me up through my site if you have any questions after you talk to the schools.

AThe buyers online use phrases called keywords to search for an item. Thus the advertising that works for both the consumer and the advertiser is the one based on a good keyword research.In addition, the ads have to portray the product in an unbiased and interesting way. A misrepresentation will neither help the advertiser nor the consumer, because it will be exposed sooner or later. An honest ad will bring repeated sales. More on this subject can be found in the following website:http://www.onlinesalesplus.com

Ait would be yes but ithey a re very expensive and befor you do them its good to have a good amount of pre hand work experiance and when you do it depends where youve gone in your career whether its still the right thing to do or not. masters generally do 2 main things for you . make it much easier to get a job and get you paid more.If you get a masters and have work three years atlest of work behind you you can get a very high level starting job. with a lot of £££ But work the three years first to see if it is worth it only time can tell.

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AIt depends on how much you want to spend. AdWords can usually be pretty cheap because you can decide how much you want to spend and they'll tailor your impressions based on that. You can also limit your exposure to only those located in your region. This is a big help for local businesses.However, I think the best bet for a plumber is to advertise in the Yellow Pages (book and website) and local business handouts. If a person has an emergency plumbing need, the first place they'll turn to is www.yellowpages.com to find local businesses. Make sure you have a listing, and it wouldn't hurt to spend a little extra to make it stand out. Also make sure you have a link to your website. A lot of people want to make sure you're a legit service before calling.I also think that the business papers that are delivered to neighborhoods within your service area would be helpful. Ads in these small papers are usually really cheap, and they're distributed to a large area. Yes, a lot of people throw them away but there are some that just leave them lying around. When they have an emergency, they go in search of them to see if they can find a good plumber with good prices.I hope this helped!

AOne of the advantages to advertising online is the capabilities to track the ad and the resulting sales.

AConsumers would make decisions based on facts and not on ideas that are promoted in ads.All that creative energy could be channeled into something that helps the world.Companies would save $Millions in ad bills.30 minute television shows are now 22 minutes to fit the commercials. They could be 30 minutes.

AAdvertising has 2 sides: the business side of it does client management, account planning, research, media (although a diff department) etc.the creative side does art direction, creatives, retouching, digital imaging etcFirst explore some of the ad agencies and decide what side you like. Then look at what kind of positions are listed at those agencies....target one of those positions...this will help you narrow down your choices. Mind you: Ad agencies do not pay well innitially...but once u r hooked and enjoy the work...you will love it! Also, most agencies don't hire creatives that frequently...but jobs on management side are immense. To succeed on creative...start building your portfolio!