So they pay advertising agencies 15% is not true cause they do it their selves.

There are several things to keep in mind. When you advertise, you have two costs — creative and media. For example, if you are producing a newspaper ad, an agency will charge you for the creative time of designing the ad. If you also employ their services to buy the ad space from the newspaper, they will also work with the newspaper to place the ad and will pass along what the newspaper charges to you. Media buying is where the percentages come in. When they place your ads, they get what is called an agency discount, BUT they will still charge you the normal price of the ad. So, they are keeping the amount of the discount for their fee. If you opt to have them do the creative, and you place the ad yourself, you can ask the newspaper, or radio or TV station for the discount yourself. It's called an in-house agency discount. One other thing. If an agency handles something like a direct mail project for you, you can opt to have the agency create the direct mail piece, work with a printer and a mailhouse to complete the entire project. Or, you can have the agency handle the creative only, get the file from them, take it to a printer yourself and work with the post office to mail it yourself. My point is that what you pay to the agency on a project depends on what aspects of the job you have them handle.

My advice is to contact two or three agencies. Ask to see samples of their work. If you like what you see, ask whether they only work on a retainer or on a project-by-project basis. If you have a small business, the latter may be the most cost-effective way for you to go. Perhaps you would use them for large projects, and handle some of the smaller ones yourself. If you do that, it wouldn't make sense to be paying anyone a monthly retainer.

I do have one other suggestion. Freelancers are also an option for you. You may not need to work with a full-fledged agency. I was formerly an S.V.P. of Marketing who left my position and started my own consulting company specifically for small businesses. I'm a one-person show working out of my home, so I can offer more affordable prices for a small business owner. Your freelancer will typically charge by the hour, with the rate depending on where you live. There are sites on the internet where you can find freelancers, such as http://www.ifreelance.com. To find someone locally, start asking around. Are there other small businesses in town who have advertising you like? Contact them and ask who does their advertising. More than likely, one of them is using a freelancer. Your Chamber of Commerce or local SCORE office may also have the name of marketing/advertising freelancers.

An advertising agency or a marketing communications firm might be interested in your newspaper for two reasons:

1. The Media Director of the agency might be interested in reaching what, from your description, sounds like a very tight and well-defined demographic audience. In order to interest a media director, however, you will have to be able to provide detailed information about your newspaper. This would include the following:

• circulation – how many readers do you have?
• demographics – what is the actual demographic makeup of your readership? What is their ethnic makeup? How old are they? What kind of incomes do they have? Do they work in white collar jobs or blue collar jobs?
• distribution – how do you reach your readers? Are you a paid newspaper or a free paper? What is the geographic distribution of your paper?
• how long you've been in business?
• how much are your ad rates? Do you offer a 15% discount to agencies for commission?

As you can see there are a lot of details that you will need to provide in writing or on the web about your publication. This is just basic Media Kit information – every tv and radio station has them, as do all print media vehicles: magazines, newspaper and trade magazines.

Another approach to reaching ad agencies and communication firms is on the basis of submitting stories or press releases that might be of interest to your readers. Agencies are always looking for new outlets for their stories. Such a relationship could prove to be a win-win for everyone.

Good luck.

I would expect a lot more below the line ads and some print ads. Go there and source around. find out the 5 w 1 h and then decide.

Remember to compile your portolio and testimonials rom the employer and clients if possible. It more believeable that college degrees.

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The top ones are

1. McCann-Erickson Philippines
2. Ogilvy and Mather
3. TBWA Santiago-Mangada-Puno
4. BBDO Guerrero-Ortega
5. Ace Saatchi and Saatchi
6. JimenezBasic
7. Lowe-Lintas and Partners
8. Dentsu and Rubicon
9. DM9JaymeSyFu
10. Leo Burnett
11. Publicis Manila
12. Campaigns and Grey
13. J.Walter Thompson

No one can give you a quote because you have no specs to quote. Contact these agencies (call PLDT or your yellow phone book for the contact info of these companies), talk to them about what you want done, and get your quotes