http://www.adguymanifesto.com Just another WordPress weblog Sun, 21 Mar 2010 14:51:45 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en I love tea. I drink gallons of the stuff. Mostly green tea but lately a lot of those girly herbal mixes. So a couple years back I discovered those electric teapots. Fill it full of water, set it on the base and it cooks your water up. Great invention. Given ... http://www.adguymanifesto.com/the-fable-of-the-toxic-teapot/ Yes, for years I've been the guy that always said vegans should be shot. I always found it pretty irritating. People would make a big deal about having a label and make everyone around them cook something special at Thanksgiving. What a pain. And all too often they were wearing ... http://www.adguymanifesto.com/an-ad-guy-goes-meatless/ This is the THIRD time I've had to start over in the Ad Biz. I graduated college in 1981 and was already working in an ad agency. My job was doing layouts, lousy illustrations, specing type, pasting up ads and shooting stats. And yes, I used some words that some ... http://www.adguymanifesto.com/the-third-wave-ad-ad-guy-laments/ I'm starting to think so. Here's a great example. A Marketing VP I've known for years called us to help him brand a new company. We met, we got a lot of great ideas and wanted to do a full brand treatment. He loved the idea and offered us about ... http://www.adguymanifesto.com/is-creative-dead/ I will never forget my visit to Dali. We were spending a few days in Torscha in the southern part of the country. It's a good 8 hours south of Addis, half of that on dirt roads. It's a bit of a brutal trek to get there, by Texas standards ... http://www.adguymanifesto.com/new-video-dali-ethiopia/ I've had some time to think about this. You come back from an experience like this and you rethink just about everything you thought you know. In talking about this with my friends, I heard the same question. Why Ethiopia. We've got so much poverty and so many problems HERE. ... http://www.adguymanifesto.com/more-thoughts-on-ethiopia/ We’re feeling pretty good lately. We called a very cool Austin company and offered to do a total rethink of their marketing. For free. If they liked our ideas, they’d hire us. If not, it would cost nothing. So we met with them, talked about their business and did our own ... http://www.adguymanifesto.com/we-just-gave-away-a-free-ad-campaign-and-got-a-new-client-you%e2%80%99re-next/ A lot has swirled through my mind since coming home. Some random thoughts: - I like Ethiopians in general. Everyone I met was kind, gentle, somewhat softspoken and very likable. Even the guy who tried to rob me in Gondar was really nice. - It's a beautiful piece of the planet. ... http://www.adguymanifesto.com/random-thoughts-on-ethiopia/ We were in the Simian Mountains... Stacy felt so horrible about a cold, shaking little girl in the that she took off her stylish down ski jacket and gave it to the little girl. It was plenty big on the girl but she’ll probably wear it for many years. On the ... http://www.adguymanifesto.com/an-ad-guy-goes-to-ethiopia-we-give-things-away/ Wednesday, sept 30. This morning we got up at the crack of, well way before the crack of dawn. We were all leaving the Intercontinental at 4:30 AM. Got to the airport and the usual airport chaos ensued. Our flight to Gondar left at 6:30 am, or so it said. We ... http://www.adguymanifesto.com/an-ad-guy-goes-to-ethiopia-the-simian-mountains/