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Flashing the Middle Finger at the Dreaded Middle

Sunday, August 29, 2010

I’m screwed. The flight is full. I need to go where I’m going but there are only middle seats. Isle seat gate keepers refuse to look me in the eye. Creativity has a middle seat and as with airlines, you never want to be in it.

Everything is Social: How Creative Brands Can Earn Social Equity

Friday, April 23, 2010

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There. I’ve summed up conventional advertising in one paragraph, and brought it into the crowded, abundant, consumer centric internet years. Now it’s all about ME, keep your damn interruption marketing to yourself, I’ll find you when I want something you got. Unless ….

Talking with Creative Director – Scott Ballew

Tuesday, February 9, 2010

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PermissionToSuck.com interviews Scott Ballew, V.P Creative Director at Capstrat, an integrated advertising and PR agency in the South East with about 100 employees.

Crowd Source This

Monday, August 24, 2009

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This is a marketer's Public Option: Leverage the intelligence of crowds. Collectively we are smarter that any one of us. This is utterly rational until conventional practice leads us to design by committee and the psychotic paralysis of group think. Harnessing the creative horde - without the pitfalls that brought us the Bay of Pigs disaster - is what Crowdsourcing attempts to do. The long tail has caused an atomization of marketing dollars and crowdsourcing is one of the new spray cans.

More Internet Strategy

Monday, October 17, 2005

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All but universal is the concept of personal space, private space and intimate space. Violate any one of an individual’s invisible concentric orbits with no invitation, and reactions range from mild discomfort to freak-out. Do it on a regular basis and you risk jail-time. Almost certainly then, personal, private and intimate marketing space exists.