If you only read six advertising books, make them: Pick Me, Darling You Can't Do Both, Writing You Way Ahead in Advertising, The Belief Economy, Chew With Your Mind Open, and Hey Whipple Squeeze This

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My Books

Both “Hey Whipple” andHey Whipple, Squeeze This and Thirty Rooms
“Thirty Rooms to Hide In” are available on Amazon.

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“This Place Sucks. I Should Leave. Seriously.”

Most of the time it was probably real bad being stuck down in a torture dungeon. But some days, when there was a bad storm outside, you’d look through the bars of your little window and think, “Boy, I’m glad I’m not out in that.” –From “Deep Thoughts by Jack Handey.”…

Writing To The 2014 Customer.

What follows is one of the single most interesting passages I’ve read in my 50-some years of reading. It’s from a marvelous book called 1939: The Lost World of The Fair , by David Gerlernter. It paints a picture of an America that no longer exists. “Question: What is…

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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.

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