One of the best pieces of creative advice I was ever given.
Anne Lamott is the author of one of my favorite books on writing – Bird By Bird . The title itself is one of the first lessons Anne gives us, in which she recalls having to write a long report about birds for school. She was daunted by the size of the project and…
Airing Olympic-themed Commercials Versus Putting your Marketing Budget in the Toilet – A Comparison
Over the course of my 33 years in advertising, I must’ve been handed a hundred “program ads” to write – you know, the kind of ad a company runs in an event program to express support for, say, the dizzying Everest of achievement of the local curling squad. As a junior…



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