How to Write an Inspired Creative Brief (201) (Full Day)
The Best-Kept Secret for Transforming Your Brand
Creative Briefing Mastery Program 201
(Full Day Workshop)
Workshop Description
This full-day workshop will help you get the kind of powerful creative work that builds your sales overnight and builds your brand over time. Led by the author of two critically acclaimed textbooks, How To Write An Inspired Creative Brief and How To Write A Single-Minded Proposition, and former ad agency creative director and corporate advertising executive, this workshop guides you through the entire creative brief-writing process, from articulating your key objectives to crafting an inspired and inspiring single-minded proposition to best practices for briefing.
This engaging, interactive workshop is packed with individual and team exercises, and examples of exceptional creative briefs and creative work inspired by creative briefs. Quite simply, this course will help you better optimize the creative process to improve your marketing effectiveness, efficiency and ROI. In short, it will help you be a better client.
This is the second installment in the ANA’s five-part series “Creative Briefing Mastery Program,” where participants learn the art of crafting compelling creative briefs that captivate audiences and inspire innovation. Participants also get hands-on experience creating a creative brief by taking a step-by-step approach.
Who is this workshop for?
This workshop is for anyone, at any level, who is involved in the development of advertising. It is a great introduction for those new to the creative brief process and a welcome refresher for seasoned professionals.
Workshop Benefits
As a result of this workshop, you and/or your team will be better able to write an inspired creative brief.
This workshop helps attendees increase marketing effectiveness by:
- Learning how to write a Creative Brief that makes the creative team say “I Get It!”
- Learning how to articulate your brand’s attributes with clarity and assurance
This workshop helps attendees increase marketing efficiency by:
- Discovering the elements that make any communication clearer, eliminating confusion
This workshop helps attendees improve marketing ROI by:
- Learning how to inspire creativity that gets your agency to do more effective work faster and with less waste
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Howard is the author of two critically acclaimed textbooks on the creative brief: How To Write An Inspired Creative Brief, 2nd edition, and How To Write A Single-Minded Proposition: Five insights on advertising’s most difficult sentence. Plus two new approaches, both of which are required reading in a growing number of undergraduate and graduate programs in the U.S. He was an award-winning copywriter and creative director at a long list of legacy advertising agencies, notably Hoffman York & Compton in Milwaukee; DDB Direct, Team One Advertising, Direct Partners, Brierley & Partners, Rubin Postaer & Associates, OgilvyOne, Grey Direct West (now G2) and Wunderman in Los Angeles; and Carlson Marketing Group and Campbell Mithun in Minneapolis. He also served as the director of advertising and creative services at Asset Marketing Services Inc., a leading collectible coin retailer, in Minneapolis. He earned his B.A. from the University of Tampa and an MA from Brown University. He lives in Los Angeles. Since 2012, he has volunteered with InsideOUT Writers, Inc., a public benefit corporation dedicated to assisting incarcerated youth. Workshops: What an Inspired Creative Brief Looks Like (101) (Half Day) What an Inspired Creative Brief Looks Like (101) (Virtual) How to Write an Inspired Creative Brief (201) (Full Day) How to Write a Single-Minded Proposition (301) (Half Day) Strategies for an Inspired Creative Briefing (401) (Half Day) Strategies for an Inspired Creative Briefing (401) (Full Day) Speaking Essentials for an Inspired Creative Briefing (501) (Half Day)
Howard Ibach