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fandomsecrets2012-07-15 03:17 pm
case) wrote in fandomsecrets2012-07-15 03:17 pm
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⌈ Secret Post #2021 ⌋
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Re: What's your job
Re: What's your job
Have you taken any advertising/marketing/communications classes? If not, taking a few or at least grabbing textbooks might not be a bad idea. If you don't have any experience at all, intern! Without pay if that's what it takes, but the experience is really important. Or try freelancing to build up a portfolio. This is long but thorough, especially about the portfolio parts. It IS harder to build up a copy book than it is to build up an art book, though. People tend to be less impressed with words on a page than when they get to look at amazing graphics. ):
Be careful though, that kind of stuff really doesn't prep you for the pace/scale/organization of an agency. You're technically a "creative," but it's much more business than most freelance writing and there's tons of legal issues and claims that need to be checked and client guidelines to follow. Especially if the client is really anal about campaign guidelines or has rate of like, a new campaign every week or gives you like a week to pitch them a whole organized print/tv/billboards/DM/etc campaign done at once. Are you prepared to stay til like 1 am in the office brainstorming? I had to do that twice last week. ): Overtime all the time is pretty common all around.
Besides that (and maybe before all that), it's really important to figure out where to even apply. There are lots and LOTS of advertising or PR or whatever agencies out there, and they're all of different types (like sure there are the famous industry giants but there are lots of OTHERS too, with much less competition and more space to move up). If you're familiar with any other languages besides English or are very familiar with any niche cultures, writing for a niche market or for a specialized agency as opposed to general market which is vast and broad - could be a good option. Like there are LGBT marketing agencies or agencies specializing in consumers of certain ethnicities (like check out http://ahaa.org/ for examples) or agencies that are purely digital and would have you writing for the internet and so on.
UHHHH did that help at all I am just rambling
Re: What's your job
The point is I don't have a Masters in Marketing. I'm a screenwriting/journalism graduate - but since jobs there are far and in-between (and frankly underpaid) I've been looking into other ways I could use writing skills, and you known, feed myself. I have somewhat of a portfolio, but it consist more of creative texts or journalistic articles. . I'm pretty used to overtime anyway.
To me, it's the business aspect that is the unknown factor.