Facebook Google+ Twitter Email Is “Evil Empire” in the Whole Foods Brand Brief? Whole Foods is just a business – driven by the demands of profits and shareholders. Still, they seem to regularly… 0 April 28, 2014
Facebook Google+ Twitter Email Big Data. Big Promise. Big Caution. Big data claims to be the new salvation for all businesses. Because, we’re told, big data will discover amazing new… 0 April 17, 2014
Facebook Google+ Twitter Email Advertising Awards: Protecting the Creative Status Quo As a strategist, creative director and student of advertising’s impact, I love to see advertising that’s challenging and interesting –… 0 April 11, 2014
Facebook Google+ Twitter Email “The Best Ideas Come as Jokes”… But the Best Quotes are Sourced The Quote Recently, at Atomic we came across a funny meme on DigiDay. The piece was a blend of clever… 0 April 7, 2014
Facebook Google+ Twitter Email Using Response Measured Advertising in an OmniChannel World I’ve spent my advertising career in the most immediately measurable of TV disciplines…direct response television. Through that career I’ve seen… 0 January 15, 2014
Facebook Google+ Twitter Email “Practicing on the Bandstand”. Some Thoughts about Miles Davis, Improvisation & Business. Business has a tremendously complicated relationship with improvisation – often preferring a mythological quest for risk-free management and ignoring the… 0 October 18, 2013
Facebook Google+ Twitter Email Succeeding Despite Bad Choices. Thoughts on “The Myth of the Media Shootout” Quite often businesses succeed in spite of specific choices – not because of those choices. Yet most never stop to… 0 October 7, 2013
Facebook Google+ Twitter Email Seven Dysfunctional Ways Ad Agencies Learn the Wrong Lessons In my last post I wrote about agency feedback loops – how important they are and the three tiers of… 0 September 11, 2013
Facebook Google+ Twitter Email Does Your Ad Agency Learn from Hard Results? It’s fundamentally human. The feedback we receive (intentional or unintentional) shapes our actions in the future. Unfortunately, there’s a pile… 0 September 8, 2013
Facebook Google+ Twitter Email The Emotional Impact of Facts Facts used in advertising leave behind emotion. I ran across this thought provoking idea in the Jaques Ellul book “Propaganda”… 0 June 25, 2013