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• Define your strategy. Write down what you want your ad to say about you or your business. This won't be your headline, it's a direction. Stick to that direction and make sure the headline or concept stays on that strategy. The idea is to leave the consumer with one primary idea about your business. If you're doing a series of ads, make sure they each touch on a different aspect of this core strategy and have a consistent look.

• Don't write too much. Brevity is key, redundancy is boring. Nobody has time to read a sea of type. There are exceptions but not many. White space in your ad, no matter the size, draws attention so there’s no need to fill up every crevice simply because you paid for it.

• The ad ideas that make you laugh and make you a bit nervous are usually the ones that work. One downfall of most clients and writers is that they overthink things and take out everything that might otherwise make their advertising or copy fun or interesting. In the interest of being politically correct, don’t pasteurize the ad too much.

• Avoid tired, lazy, lame, homogenized copy and clich?s. "Operators are standing by!", "Act Now", "But wait...order now and..", "Welcome to my.." so on and so forth. Your goal is to advertise not to make people yawn.

• Write like you're from Mars, then bring it in from right field. What I'm saying is let loose and write with abandon not taking any care whatsoever if it's politically correct. Then DON'T show it to another human being. The next step is t

out your business. If you're doing a series of ads, make sure they each touch on a different aspect of this core strategy and have a consistent look.

• Don't write too much. Brevity is key, redundancy is boring. Nobody has time to read a sea of type. There are exceptions but not many. White space in your ad, no matter the size, draws attention so there’s no need to fill up every crevice simply because you paid for it.

• The ad ideas that make you laugh and make you a bit nervous are usually the ones that work. One downfall of most clients and writers is that they overthink things and take out everything that might otherwise make their advertising or copy fun or interesting. In the interest of being politically correct, don’t pasteurize the ad too much.

• Avoid tired, lazy, lame, homogenized copy and clich?s. "Operators are standing by!", "Act Now", "But wait...order now and..", "Welcome to my.." so on and so forth. Your goal is to advertise not to make people yawn.

• Write like you're from Mars, then bring it in from right field. What I'm saying is let loose and write with abandon not taking any care whatsoever if it's politically correct. Then DON'T show it to another human being. The next step is t

for it.

• The ad ideas that make you laugh and make you a bit nervous are usually the ones that work. One downfall of most clients and writers is that they overthink things and take out everything that might otherwise make their advertising or copy fun or interesting. In the interest of being politically correct, don’t pasteurize the ad too much.

• Avoid tired, lazy, lame, homogenized copy and clich?s. "Operators are standing by!", "Act Now", "But wait...order now and..", "Welcome to my.." so on and so forth. Your goal is to advertise not to make people yawn.

• Write like you're from Mars, then bring it in from right field. What I'm saying is let loose and write with abandon not taking any care whatsoever if it's politically correct. Then DON'T show it to another human being. The next step is t

ch?s. "Operators are standing by!", "Act Now", "But wait...order now and..", "Welcome to my.." so on and so forth. Your goal is to advertise not to make people yawn.

• Write like you're from Mars, then bring it in from right field. What I'm saying is let loose and write with abandon not taking any care whatsoever if it's politically correct. Then DON'T show it to another human being. The next step is to take out the really over-the-top stuff and leave the engaging parts.

• Figure out what idea will trip that switch in the consumer brain you're trying to reach. And that doesn't mean test it to death because that's guaranteed to kill any good idea. It means read what your target audience reads, watch what they watch, meet some of them. This puts you in the mindset of your audience and helps you develop a more effective ad.

• Even a low budget all-type ad or one with simple line art can be very effective. Take your marketing focus, create a good headline and you can have a good ad. Example: Years ago, banks wanted to let everyone know before tax time that you could write off something you purchased if you used a home equity loan. We had a minimal budget to run a campaign of three ads.

The ad strategy: Communicate that a standard purchase that is not ordinarily a tax write off, can be if you use a home equity loan to make the purchase.

Ad visual: The visual was the onomatopoeia “Varooom” (the car sound) and we added some skid marks.

The headline: Write off your 911 on your 1040.
Simple, fun, lots of white space and we got lots of attention for an ad that was about 4x5 inches in size and was very inexpensive to produce.

The biggest compliment I ever got was during a field trip to a cattle farm with a client who was an agriculture rep for a product. (My glamorous life in advertising) One of the cattle farmers we met up with said to the agriculture rep, "I saw your last ad and it was really good. Finally you advertising people let a cattle farmer write an ad."

I wrote that ad. And I am not a cattle farmer, I'm a born and