He's Not A Poet
What The Tour de France Can Teach You About Plan B
Welcome to the 2019 installment of What The Tour de France Can Teach You About Advertising. This is my annual post using the Tour de France, professional bicycling's greatest race and marketing machine, as a metaphor for improving your advertising. (You can get caught...
The 2019 Super Bowl Ad Awards For The Non Poetic
Welcome to the 2019 Super Bowl Ad Awards For The Non-Poetic! Super Bowl LIII is history, the Patriots are once again Super Bowl champions, America is throughly sick of Tom Brady, and it's time to reveal our judging panel's (me and Office Dog) favorites from this...
The Connection Between The Tour de France And Your Advertising Plan
Welcome to the 2018 installment of What The Tour de France Can Teach You About Advertising. This is my annual post using the Tour de France, professional bicycling's greatest race and marketing machine, as a metaphor for how you can improve your company's advertising....
Email Marketing Tips Everyone Can Use
One of my favorite movies is the 1985 film Fletch, starring Chevy Chase as wise-cracking investigative newspaper reporter Irwin M. Fletcher. Though it's 33 years old, there's one line that resonates with me to this day in my daily work. As Fletch's investigation into...
The 2018 Super Bowl Advertising Awards For The Non-Poetic
Welcome to the 2018 Super Bowl Ad Awards For The Non-Poetic! Super Bowl LII is done, the Eagles are Super Bowl champions, the City of Brotherly Love is alive with, umm, celebration, and it's time to reveal our judging panel's (me and Office Dog) favorites from this...
What The Post (And Ben Bradlee) Can Teach You About Content Marketing
Though he passed away in 2014, former Washington Post Executive Editor Ben Bradlee is suddenly very popular again. He's currently being portrayed by Tom Hanks in a new historical drama called The Post, and he was also featured in an HBO documentary, titled The...
Is Your Advertising Keeping You Ahead Of The Pack?
Welcome to the 2017 installment of What The Tour de France Can Teach You About Advertising. This is my annual post using the Tour de France, professional bicycling's greatest race, as a metaphor for how you can improve your company's advertising. (You can get caught...
The 2017 Super Bowl Ad Awards For The Non-Poetic
Welcome to the 2017 Super Bowl Ad Awards For The Non-Poetic! Super Bowl LI is done, the Patriots are again Super Bowl champions, Tom Brady has added a new layer of bland to his legend and it's now time to reveal our judging panel's (me and Office Dog) favorites from...
Don’t Believe The Hype; Storytelling Is Not Dead
Recently, I saw a story detailing the success of MasterCard's branding update. While this type of self-congratulatory "news" is nothing new in ad industry publications, what caught my eye was the photo that accompanied the story, which showed a Mastercard...