So after a full day of work, I have brought all the best of "How to Not Get a Job in Advertising" over to WordPress! I think I will begin new posts on WordPress tonight, and LiveJournal may be out by weeks end. So feel free to check out the new site, I hope you like it as much as this one!

"How to Not Get a Job in Advertising on WordPress.

LiveJournal has been great, I'm ready for the next step. For everyone who has left me comments or reads the blog, please keep reading! I promise to bring you more insights, more stories, and much more advertising in the future.

As BL Ochman said, "I am stuffed with opinions and can't imagine how you'd ever have known that before blogs."

I hope I continue to break the mundane, dazzle, or provide humor for your daily entertainment. You can still reach me at bigwordsadvertising anytime. See you at WordPress!

Here's a quick ad to start your morning. These "Drink Milk" ads are hilarious, even though the concept isn't exactly top notch creative. The copy isn't great either, I know, but enjoy the little extras that make the video worth it. The 3D work is great, I don't know who did it yet, but it's really good.

Check the ad out here, via ads of the world. There are four more ads in the same concept there. Loved em all.

So construction has begun for my new location of "How to Not Get a Job in Advertising". WordPress is harder to use than I thought, until I realized it may have a lot to do with Safari, my OS X web browser. So I am hard at work trying to fix that.



Feel free to check out my progress at HTNGJIA in WordPress! Until the site is completely up and running, I will still be posting here on LiveJournal. So please keep reading, and keep those comments coming! Let me know what you think about my topics, my writing, the new site, or anything in general.

Email me anytime, or just post your comments below. Tomorrow, back to the ads, and maybe a little about my first experience at Ikea (read: insane!)

Today I was watching Mad Men, the AMC drama based on advertising in the 1960s. I've gotten through the first three episodes, and while I like it, I don't love it. While I often long for Entourage to switch to hour-long episodes, I wish Mad Men was in a thirty minute slot. Sometimes the show is great, sometimes it feels like filler.



The line in episode three that really stuck with me was delivered by Rachel Menken, the owner of a major department store. After being asked by main character Don Draper if she had changed her clothes since he saw her earlier, Menken responds, "This is my closet" gesturing to the store around her.

While that line may not have been meant to capture attention, it stood out for me because that is what a passionate person will say about their work. Much in the same way Sam Melfi treats his store Books and Memories like his personal library. He questions everyone who buys books from him, engaging in conversations with some, challenging others. To him, anyone who buys his books is buying them from his personal collection, even as it has grown from a few hundred in his attic to literally hundreds of thousands in a store a block long.

I was reading BL Ochman's blog, What's Next the other day and loved this section:

"For me, and I think for a lot of other serious business bloggers, a blog is a storefront and, once it gains a big enough audience, a global micro-brand. You don't just walk away from a successful blog that took blood, sweat and tears to build because a shiny new object came along."

The blog really has become a personal 'storefront'. So many of them are set up like portfolios, where you can learn more about the writer, their interests, see their work, etc. And I think that is great. It takes a long time to create that for a blog, and can take even longer if you don't write your thoughts down. Since I began this blog I have re-written my vision, taken stock of my interests, and (yes) gotten a job. That's right, I announced that quietly. I wouldn't want to lose my support with the unemployed community.

But this personal storefront becomes a part of us, something we built with our own two hands. When you care about your work like that, when you become emotionally attached to it, you grow alongside your work. And passion is what fuels us. So grow alongside you work, whether it's a department store, dusty book store, or a free blog online. Take pride, take charge, get out there and learn. Best of luck, I'll be here cleaning my storefront.



P.S. Eric Webber has written another section in Advertising Age's Small Agency Diary. It's on how to conduct useful meetings in an agency setting. It's another good read and you can get it here.

So, in my ongoing project of creating a blog worthy of reading, I will be leaving LiveJournal and moving my blog to WordPress. A lot of my favorite blogs are hosted there, including Scary Ideas, Customers Rock!, and Agency Spy.

I am slowly in the process of buying my own domain name, etc. with the hope of establishing myself as a blog writer. I got into this to express my feelings on the ad industry and working in the ad industry, and I want to continue to share that with everyone. I hope to have the new site up and running in a few days, but I will continue to post on here until then. Really sorry for any inconvenience, but thanks for all the great comments and visiting me here at LiveJournal.

By the way, the way LiveJournal comment sections are set up, I don't know the email address of anyone who leaves me a comment. But I would really like to thank you all personally. You have given me the motivation to keep writing, and it really is a rush to wake up in the morning to all your creative inputs.

Best of luck to everyone in the job hunt, and see you all soon.