Self-Promotion Archives - Adpulp https://www.adpulp.com/category/self-promotion/ Advertising News and Know-How Sat, 11 Jan 2025 00:29:03 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.9.1 https://www.adpulp.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/09/cropped-adpulp-logo-reddark-grey-32x32.png Self-Promotion Archives - Adpulp https://www.adpulp.com/category/self-promotion/ 32 32 29582147 Please Buy Adpulp A Coffee https://www.adpulp.com/please-buy-adpulp-a-coffee/ https://www.adpulp.com/please-buy-adpulp-a-coffee/#respond Fri, 10 Jan 2025 16:42:20 +0000 https://www.adpulp.com/?p=39730 Please buy Adpulp a coffee. Dear reader, you have your own reasons for supporting this website and its creators. And I honor your reasons! My reason for asking today is not because we are presently short on coffee. I’m a fiend for the brew. In fact, just this morning my local purveyor poured me a […]

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]]> 37332 Job Number One: Ask Good Questions and Take Good Notes https://www.adpulp.com/job-number-one-ask-good-questions-and-take-good-notes/ Thu, 02 Dec 2021 17:14:32 +0000 https://www.adpulp.com/?p=37333 I started interviewing people when I was 18 years old and a freshman at Franklin & Marshall College. One thing I know about myself—I have a journalist’s temperament, which I bring to the ad business, sometimes successfully. In this new collection of 18 interviews with 19 advertising professionals, there’s a series of successful moments where […]

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]]> 37333 A Book for ‘Ad People’ with Brains https://www.adpulp.com/a-book-for-ad-people-with-brains/ Mon, 08 Nov 2021 16:54:26 +0000 https://www.adpulp.com/?p=37315 One of the best things about Adpulp.com is the people we meet. The site opens many doors and behind many of these doors are amazingly unique people with fascinating stories. My new ebook—Ad Brains: Conversations with Advertising’s Icons, Rebels, and Rulers—captures some of these stories. Ad Brains is now available for $10 from Amazon.com, Kobo.com, […]

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]]> 37315 On BuiltIn.com Now: RFPs Are a Waste of Precious Time https://www.adpulp.com/articles-on-builtin-com-reach-people-who-market-technology/ Tue, 31 Aug 2021 14:32:00 +0000 https://www.adpulp.com/?p=37157 To reach new and more readers, I started to send out articles for publication—articles that would have otherwise appeared in these pages. Technology-focused Built In has been kind enough to run two of my pieces, so far. Here’s the latest: RFPs Are a Waste of Precious Time. Here’s a Better Way to Hire an Agency. […]

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]]> 37157 Selfie Culture Sucks So Hard, And Dove Is Having None Of It https://www.adpulp.com/selfie-culture-sucks-so-hard-and-dove-is-having-none-of-it/ Tue, 04 May 2021 18:32:36 +0000 https://www.adpulp.com/?p=36840 When you’re out and about, do you see people primping for the camera? You don’t have to look far. Selfie preparation is happening all around us, in idling cars, in living rooms, in restaurants and bars, and on the street. So many carefully curated images, so little room for reality. Because reality bites. Reality is […]

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]]> 36840 Adland Podcast Number 9: From Ad Industry Woes To New and Improved Pathways https://www.adpulp.com/adland-podcast-number-9-from-ad-industry-woes-to-new-and-improved-pathways/ Fri, 14 Aug 2020 22:34:07 +0000 https://adpulp.wpengine.com/?p=34664 Two advertising professionals and OG ad critics enter a podcast recording booth… Tune in now to find out what was said. This ep of the adland podcast I chat with @davidburn of @adpulp about trademarks (like adland) paying people for their work, digital debris and much more. Namechecked the @adcontrarian more than once. 🙂 https://t.co/h06dmkJLPN […]

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]]> 34664 These New Holiday Ornaments from Colle McVoy Are Not Like Other Ornaments https://www.adpulp.com/these-new-holiday-ornaments-from-colle-mcvoy-are-not-like-other-ornaments/ Tue, 24 Dec 2019 21:44:34 +0000 https://adpulp.wpengine.com/?p=32066 Colle McVoy is a masterful designer of holiday cards. Every year the Minneapolis agency sends me something new and every year I marvel at the idea and the elegant execution of the idea. This year a small package arrived. Inside the package, I found four beautiful holiday-themed coasters that also act as ornaments for the […]

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]]> 32066 What’s Your “Truth Well Told”? https://www.adpulp.com/whats-your-truth-well-told/ Thu, 21 Nov 2019 17:43:12 +0000 https://adpulp.wpengine.com/?p=31810 Quick. In a sentence tell me what your agency is all about. Come on, we don’t have all day. Ad People Can’t Seem To Sum Themselves Up Darren Woolley is the founder and global chief executive of TrintityP3, an independent global marketing management consulting company. Q. A what? A. He’s a consultant. Over the past […]

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]]> 31810 The Future of Paid Content: Same As It Ever Was https://www.adpulp.com/the-future-of-paid-content-same-as-it-ever-was/ Sat, 18 May 2019 13:45:57 +0000 https://adpulp.wpengine.com/?p=29841 Eight years ago, I had an opportunity to speak to a group of marketing pros in Boston about the future of paid content. I was invited to speak by my friend and former colleague, Sloane Kelley, one of the founders of Geekend, an annual gathering now in its 11th year. I had an audio recording […]

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