Archive for the ‘Trends’ Category

Monday, June 26th, 2006

Canned

Can you really Cannes creative work? By that I mean: are there or can there ever be objective measurements of what makes one product inspired and another pedestrian? Or is it all subjective, as in “beauty is in the eyes of the beholder?”

Can we apply a metric to creativity and validate a dimensional scale? Or, by definition, do we diminish our thinking by creating linear judgments for a product that is produced by muse and synapse?

Monday, May 15th, 2006

Unlearn

A few questions for you…

Did you ever think out of the box? How many times have you heard or used the cliché (I’m guilty for countless mentions….)? How many times do you think you have been successful in accomplishing “out of the box thinking?” What has kept you from success? What were the barriers?

Monday, May 8th, 2006

Walk In

Here’s the question. What do you need to know about your client’s business? How much do you need to know? And on the flip side, how much do they need to know about yours?

  • Frankly, even if I felt I knew the client's products, competition, customers, and brand better than they did—and even if I thought they were doing everything back asswards—it would be downright rude act that way at a meeting. A while back I got a brief filled with proof points that I felt wouldn't hold up under scrutiny. But I gave ...
  • How much do you need to know? Probably more than you know currently. Take the time to get to know the dynamics of your clients business beyond just marketing and you'll develop insights that will add real substance to the work you suggest and present. Strangely enough the clients with whom I have taken the time to explain how we work, ...