By Erika Turan, APR Senior Account Executive When did “sex sells” become the mantra for advertising? I can’t prove it, but I think I can make a convincing argument that there are some Egyptian hieroglyphics out there of a voluptuous young woman who wants to sell cat embalming for your personal tomb. Whenever it started, […]
By Erika Turan, APR Senior Account Executive I went to the grocery store the other day. I shop at a mega grocery store chain, and I really dig the place. Prices are good, people are friendly, and selection is great. Recently, the chain announced a change in its coupon policy. I’m a haphazard couponer at […]
By Erika Turan, APR Senior Account Executive In a previous blog, I offered four tips to create a great internship program based on the experience I’ve had supervising interns for many years. Here are four more tips: 1.Make your intern feel welcome When I was in college, I spent a semester away from my school […]
By Erika Turan, APR Senior Account Executive By my estimation, talented actors have a few options in how to manage their careers: 1. Continue acting, but branch out into sort-of related industries like directing, producing or writing (see: Shirley McClane, Tom Hanks, Julie Andrews). 2. Focus solely on acting, and do it really well (Meryl […]
By: Kaity Dunn Account Associate YouTube has implemented more advertising over the years, and usually when an ad interrupts my video viewing, I’m impatient and a bit resentful of the interruption. But today, I credit the first exception to my disdain of video advertising to toothbrush manufacturer Oral B. In Oral B’s Father’s Day commercial, […]
Kaity Dunn Account Associate 1. Don’t put pressure on yourself to write a perfect first draft. If you critique every sentence as you write, the writing process will feel forced and painful. When writing the first draft, let your ideas flow on the page. You should shoot for a “bad” first draft. The mantra I […]
By Mimi Rasor, APR President Dear Dirk — There are so many things we adore about you being in the family. Like the way you come running any time someone gets ice from the fridge dispenser. And it’s adorable that you will put all of your being into chasing a stick… Doing […]
By Jimmy Caccamo Intern Many of you know of Dove’s most recent advertising ingenuity. The Dove Real Beauty “Sketches” clip (links copied below) has hit another homerun. The clip has 114 million hits in 25 languages stretching to 33 Dove Youtube channels. Does this ad reinforce product loyalty? Does it convert non-Dove brand users to […]
By Erika Turan, APR Senior Account Executive Mass retailer Abercrombie & Fitch recently attracted a wave of negative media attention when its CEO openly stated that the company “goes after the cool kids. We go after the attractive all-American kid with a great attitude and a lot of friends. A lot of people don’t belong […]
By Erika Turan, APR Senior Account Executive Once upon a time, I loved Martha Stewart. I subscribed to her magazine as a fresh-out-of-college, apartment-dwelling single gal, and studied the oversized, matte (not glossy) pages for tips on creating topiary window boxes (still totally going to do that),making a platter of beef wellington (with meringue clouds […]
