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What Is Great Writing, And Where Do Great Design Ideas Come From?

Writing and design—these are the core skills that propel the communications industry forward. Without excellence in writing and design, we would have no great books, films, or architecture, and our advertising would be a complete waste of time and money. Thankfully, there's a universe of talented writers and designers and many are willing to work in corporate communications. In May, One Club put together a video …

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Words Matter; Ergo, The Content That Fortifies Dictionary.com Matters

Words. There are so many of them. It's hard to know them all or to know what they all mean. We used to have a dictionary and thesaurus nearby to look up unknown words. Today, we make a quick visit to Dictionary.com to confirm our hunch, or to get the official version. For instance, here's a word you might see on the SAT or GRE. Unctuous (adjective): excessively smooth, suave, or smug. Maybe you know …

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Chili’s for Dinner? That’s so ‘Ita

A neologism is a term, word, or phrase in the process of entering common use, but that has not yet been fully accepted into mainstream language. A protologism is a word coined by an individual or small group that has not yet been published somewhere independent from the coiners. A homophone is a word that has the same sound as another word but is spelled differently and has a different meaning. Chili's is …

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The Glorification of Personalization in Marcom Is Persistent But Misguided

Since 2014, the Association of National Advertisers has surveyed its mostly client-side members to identify the marketing word of the year. This year the winning nomenclature is “Personalization.” Other top choices in the ANA 2019 Marketing Word of the Year voting: “equality and inclusion,” “data,” and “in-house.” "Personalization is what customers expect," one participant in the survey said. "Every current and …

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What’s Your “Truth Well Told”?

Quick. In a sentence tell me what your agency is all about. Come on, we don't have all day. Ad People Can't Seem To Sum Themselves Up Darren Woolley is the founder and global chief executive of TrintityP3, an independent global marketing management consulting company. Q. A what? A. He's a consultant. Over the past two decades, I have seen more than a thousand agency credentials presentations, either …

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Boots on the Ground: Timberland To Help Plant 50 Million Trees

Brand purpose has plenty of detractors inside the ad industry. For example, Simon White, chief strategy officer at FCB West argues: "When brands advertise their favorite social cause, instead of meeting consumers’ goals, the advertising becomes irrelevant, ineffective and annoying." White adds, "When it comes to advertising, don’t start with your why, start with theirs." It's practical advice and it sounds good …

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Influencers Tell One Story – Their Own

Editor's Note: This is a guest post written by Eric Alt and provided by Epica Press Club. The words are nails on a chalkboard: “It writes itself.” A phrase frequently punctuated with a laugh, the free and easy chuckle of someone who doesn’t have to go and do the writing. Someone who is content to toss an idea into the ether because it’ll cocoon on a tree limb and hatch in two or three days as a magical piece of …

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Copywriters Are Idea Generators. The Words Come Later.

The great majority of people do not know what I, or the thousands of people who do what I do for a living, do for a living. I'm a copywriter. I'm a copywriter who has grown used to following that line of introduction with this explanation: In advertising, a copywriter is the one who typically generates the ideas for the ad campaign. The client may know what they want to convey, but it's up to the copywriter …

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