Helping Your Small Business Find Its Voice
Since launching in 2007, video crowdsourcing company Poptent recently paid out their 5,000,000th dollar in awards. I was one of the first freelancers to start working with them when they started, and I also happened to be the recipient of that five millionth dollar when Olivieri Pasta purchased an animation I did this spring. Even […]
Ask a hundred advertising creatives this question, and you’ll probably get MORE than a hundred answers, which may include responses like: “It should be funny. People remember funny. Funny sells!” “The business name should be mentioned no fewer than three times.” “The phone number should be in there – at least twice — so people […]
Something fun for a Friday morning. I’m not sure the source or the significance. It might have been done “just for fun.” A Google search of the “Absolute Music” slate at the end proved inconclusive. However, it was great for a laugh (especially the shot of the engineer potting down the slide that says “Ringo […]
The great thing about cliches is that they’re really easy to write. Someone’s already done the work, in some cases, many times over (Caution: Video contains some naughty words): But the problem with cliches is that, by definition, they’re predictable and overused. So when you use them in your advertising, viewers and listeners tune out […]
This weekend, we drove past an auto repair place in Tucson, and as we passed by, I heard from an open bay the unmistakable sound of a pneumatic wrench taking the lug nuts off a tire: Here’s what it sounded like… In that brief instant, I was immediately ten years old again, hanging out in […]