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

No presentations with titles like “Effective management thru visualization!”

 

 

 

 

No slides with lines like “follow your heart to creativity!”

 

 

 

No advice like “let your creativity sparkle brightly!” ever.

 

 

 

 

No fluffy non-speeches like “be more creative in three easy steps!”

 

 

 

 

 

No slides that say “creativity is courage.” Ever.

 

 

 

 

No cliches about “don’t be afraid to try!”

 

 

 

 

 

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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Interns Should Be Paid. With Money.

Recently an ad student at well-known art and design school came up to me and said, “I just had some of my work produced for a real client at a national agency.” Here’s why this is a disturbing story. The kid had done this work, and a lot of other work, for this agency…

Random Thoughts on the Word “Viral.”

If one more person tells me they want something to “go viral” I think I shall retire to my chambers and weep softly until dusk. “Go viral”? Please. Take the Beatles. The Beatles didn’t hold a meeting in the 3rd floor conference room and decide, “Okay, we’re going to…

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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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