This actual craigslist ad features a headline that demonstrates the advertiser does not know his audience at all. Graphic artists never read copy—or anything else, for that matter.
GRAPHIC ARTIST PLEASE READ
Date: 2009-12-02, 12:50PM CST
Reply to: lewispitzele@sbcglobal.net
We are a mobile phone distribution company. We represent for distribution a company that offers a service for $50 dollars a month including tax and free 411 with operators for unlimited call and text and 100 gig a bites of web. We are looking for a graphic artist who would like to take a chance on doing some work, so we can pitch your work to the parent company. You would work for the president of the distribution company and he would pitch the concepts to the parent company. If you can use something like this in your portfolio and would like to take a chance of getting pa big account give me a call or email me at your earliest convenience. Ask for Lewis 773-327-2100
2 comments:
so true. designers don't like to read! (too much)
"take a chance of getting pa big account give me a call" is an easy read for any designer, "wolf tickets for sale" :)
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