Saturday, October 30, 2010

The Brand Denigration Theory.

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Some time ago when I worked on the west coast--yes, I have spent time out of Manhattan--I developed something I call "The Brand Denigra...
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Friday, October 29, 2010

The tyranny of numbers.

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Back about a decade ago I worked on the server business for IBM. The market trend at that time in the business was all in the direction of c...
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Thursday, October 28, 2010

Liking.

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At the risk of being called a troglodyte, a cretin, a flat-earther or a red-state Senator, I must herein admit that I don't understand t...

More Churchill.

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If you want to learn how to be a great creative or a great client you'd be better served by reading about Winston Churchill than you wou...
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Wednesday, October 27, 2010

Ed Butler, my-ex boss.

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One of the things my ex-boss Ed Butler taught me I've carried with me for almost two decades. Ed, like so many of his generation, served...
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My father and the day after.

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By some anomaly of my birth date, I was in first grade when I was just five. I never felt unable to keep up with kids who were, at least fro...
Tuesday, October 26, 2010

Quotation of the day.

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Such is the cosmic comedy of life, we spend our days on conference calls on mute. Talkative people silenced by bureaucracy and propriety. Ou...

Leo Cullum, 1942-2010.

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Leo Cullum published 819 cartoons in "The New Yorker."
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Winston Churchill on Advertising.

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As long-time readers of Ad Aged know, I am an inveterate and eclectic reader. I read a lot on a lot of different topics. However, when I am ...
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Monday, October 25, 2010

Client stories.

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It seems that every client between here and kingdom come (whatever that means) has decided that the creating stories of clients who use thei...
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