A very cool quotation from Faris Yakob’s cool book “Paid Attention: Innovative Advertising for Digital World.”
“Working in advertising can make you cynical, but if you can aspire to look yourself in the mirror and see the kind of person your 8- or 14-year-old self would not hate – if you can treat people and customers and clients and vendors and the world with respect;...Top 5 Tweets from folks in Jacksonville. (Frankly, some of these people were just mean.)
Just got back from a fun speaking trip to Jacksonville and their AAF club. As always, I tell the audience I’ll send a signed copy of Hey Whipple, Squeeze This to the person who writes the funniest tweet during the talk. And by funny, I told ‘em, hey, if you think I...Top 3 Tweets from the Crowd at Inbound Marketing 2015. And the winner is….
This is the runner-up. The 2nd best tweet, the silver award-winner, from the audience of nearly 500 at my presentation to today’s Inbound Marketing 2015. “He looks and sounds just like Larry David.” The panel of judges – me, Luke, plus one other guy,...Here’s the most important thing I try to teach my ad students.
I’ve been the chair of the ad department here at SCAD for just over three years now, and I’m all totes cray about teaching. (Totes cray – see how hip you get hangin’ with the college crowd?) Over these last few years I’ve had the privilege of leading a million...A List of Fave Sites for Creative Inspiration.
The other day I asked the tweetverse and my FB Friends, “Please send me links to your favorite sites, the ones you go to for inspiration.” Thanks to all of you who wrote. And below I include the ones most people mentioned. My faves are marked with...
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Luke Sullivan
Author, speaker, and ad veteran available to recharge, reinvigorate, and refocus marketing, advertising, and branding firms.
I give a hugely energetic series of presentations on innovation, creativity, branding, and marketing. I spent 32 years in the trenches of advertising (at agencies like Martin, GSD&M, and Fallon) and I’ve put everything I learned into my book, Hey Whipple, Squeeze This. But for me nothing beats taking the message out and speaking to living breathing audiences at clients, agencies, and conferences. You can book me on the button below.
