How do you start an advertising agency?

Answer 1

How to Start an Advertising Agency
By Randy Wilson


An Advertising business opportunity on the Internet is just exploding with possibilities. This is one of the most profitable endeavors available in the field of Internet advertising. If you have advertising experience and know even the basics of Internet, you have potential to start your own advertising business on the Internet.

There are many areas of the Internet that need to be learned before starting your advertising business opportunity. Multi level marketing, or MLM, is one way of generating advertising and sales at the same time. MLM is a system that allows someone to collect commissions on their own sales as well as on people they recruit under them. This used to be known as pyramid schemes.

MLM has become very popular with product sales, helping the organization build wealth by paying commissions on multiple levels. The concept from an advertising point of view is great, the more motivation you have to recruit people to sell your product, the more your product is out there on the market. Some examples of companies that use MLM are nutritional product lines, make up product lines, and home decoration lines.

Multi level marketing has been around for years and not likely to go away anytime soon. Focus needs to be clear however on what the drive is for the company. If your focus is only on recruiting people to recruit more people, then your product sales are going to suffer. When your product sales suffer, your business as a whole suffers and then no one wants to be a part of the industry. Keep your focus when dealing with MLM with your advertising business opportunity.

Ezines are another emerging way to get a product or service out to the public. Ezines, or electronic magazines, are usually specialized to a certain areas of interest. This is very much like conventional magazines. However, advertising in ezines is low-cost and even occasionally free. Another advertising business opportunity that is wide open.

Ezines in themselves will need advertising to get their word out. A perfectly written ezine does no one any good if no one knows that it is out there to be seen. Finding an audience for your ezine may be easier than you think. Make sure when going into ezines that you know your material and that the writing is concise and accurate.

SEO, or search engine optimization, is a proven method of advertising on the Internet and a field, which is very much in demand at this time. SEO is a system of writing web content that uses specific key words and phrases that will pull the page up when that keyword or phrase is typed into any of the search engines. Knowing how to effectively use keywords to get a site recognized is critical for small businesses on the web.

When you open a search engine such as 'Yahoo!' or 'Google', and type in the phrase Internet advertising, you will get a list of results. Those results are formulated by the words Internet and advertising. Sites that have those two words incorporated consistently throughout the site will come up on the list. These lists are in order by the most hit on sites at the top of this list. Of course, that is where you want your advertising business opportunity clients to be.

Educating your self on these concepts and a few more will allow you to start marketing your Internet advertising business. Becoming an Internet business advertising consultant to companies who are looking to expand their presence on the web is a first step in building your reputation and presence in this field.

You must have a well-written profile centered on your Internet advertising experience and an up to date resume'. Businesses today are being inundated with new, and sometimes bogus, advertising opportunities and you need to stand out above all those other offers. Keep your presence, online and in the field, professional at all times and make sure you can deliver what you promise. With those things in mind, you should be successful.

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Answer 2

The best routes to take are to research the process of starting a business as well as the industry you're interested in.

I recommend checking out the SBA, Entrepreneur, The Start Up Journal & Nolo. All 4 are great informational resources for the new/small business owner. I posted links for you in the source box.

Associations may be a good avenue to explore. These organizations will address many of the thoughts, questions and concerns you'll inevitably have as well as many you haven't anticipated yet. See the source box for some relevant links.

Research, research, research – this cannot be stressed enough. Read as much as you can about the industry. Here are some book titles that are relevant:

* The Advertising Agency Business: The Complete Manual for Management & Operation by Eugene J. Hameroff
* The Advertising Business: Operations, Creativity, Media Planning, Integrated Communications by John Philip Jones
* How to Start and Run Your Own Advertising Agency by Allan Krieff

There are plenty of free informational resources out there. Check the source box for links to articles.

Hope that helps! I wish you much success & happiness in all your ventures!

Answer 3

If you use sales people, you don't need a lot of money to promote your agency. Just pay them a commission. At first you could do your own sales. It's tough though, you might find other people who are better at it.

You need to put together demo adds for them to take around. Unless you have a big budget start with Mom and Pop businesses. Car dealers are good because they always have cheesy adds anyway.

Make sure you contact your state and form an LLC to protect yourself.

I'd get a job at someone elses add agency for a while. You will learn a lot more there than anyone on here can offer you.

Answer 4

There's an awful lot of stuff you need before you embark, but a quick summary would be:

1. You will need experience in the marketing industry - you are either an account manager, a copywriter or an art director.

2. Do a SWOT analysis of your competitive set and establish a market advantage

3. Set out your business objectives and create a business plan - short and long term

4. Having a client as you launch will help!

5. Be single-minded about your proposition. What are your planning and concept strategies and how will you implement them?

6. Above all, be creative. Everyone considers themselves to be highly creative - some proclaim that they are great arbiters of creativity - very few actually are.


Good luck

Answer 5

First, you must have an experienced on this kind of business...then do some research related to this...hired some people who has a background on this level. Look for a place that's fit to this and your connections to other advertisers. Good luck!

Answer 6

you need money ($$$)!!! but to start off small...

you can buy a website, make it a hot spot, start selling advertisements, and make yourself heard.

if you have a website, you can do an affiliate system where people (other websites) sign up on your system, and you host advertisements on their site.

you can have a fundraiser... sell advertisements.

but most importantly, you need money, an education in this department, and maybe even a degree in PR, and advertising. best way to start is work for a existing firm, than branch off once you learn the trade.

best luck
alex

Answer 7

It is able to start a advertising agency by getting some experience in the marketing feild so that it is able to chase the competition. first you should have a capable to attract the client you should think innovatively while promoting the product

Answer 8

The best thing to do would be to go work in an agency for several years, make more contacts, and get a feel for how they work.

Answer 9

You need a client before you can start an agency

Answer 10

Advertise yourself as a start. The results will pretty much indicate how good you are and if you'll be successful at it.