Monthly Archives: March 2010

Top 13 things every advertising copywriter should know about SEO

Image by mar­ciook­abe via Flickr Most ad agen­cies have his­tor­i­cally hired spe­cial­ists to han­dle the dig­i­tal part of the equa­tion – leav­ing cre­atives to play and not worry so much about the tech­ni­cal details. After all, they’ve got plenty on their plate learn­ing pro­grams, pro­duc­tion skills, and just crank­ing out killer cre­ative. Who needs another

Casting calls are humbling. And not just for actors.

Image by Hol­ly­wood Poo­dle via Flickr I’ve just spent the last four days watch­ing cast­ing for a series of videos we’re cre­at­ing for one of our clients. Every time I watch a cast­ing ses­sion it’s a mix of emo­tions — embar­rass­ment, awe, pas­sion, grat­i­tude, won­der, and of course, thanks. Usu­ally the ses­sions are all over

Why I blog. Or I’ve learned more here than…

Image by Pere­grino Will Reign via Flickr I had two con­ver­sa­tions with tal­ented ad cre­atives yes­ter­day that reminded me of how far main­tain­ing this blog and my other sites have taken me in the last year. The first was about SEO and the sec­ond was about pro­fi­ciency with devel­op­ment. Nei­ther one of them had been

Channel your passion. Just don’t necessarily listen to it.

Image via Wikipedia My fist hit the table this morn­ing. I was feel­ing pas­sion­ate. Really pas­sion­ate about my work. It’s an empow­er­ing thing – feel­ing so pas­sion­ate about what you do that you’re will­ing to sacrafice your hand. The one you use to write with, which is how you make your liv­ing. My job doesn’t save

Is your brand a community?

Image by Meer via Flickr A com­mu­nity is a place where peo­ple come to gather, do things for each other and orga­nize around com­mon ideals and goals. In com­mu­ni­ties, peo­ple build trust and cre­ate rela­tion­ships that hope­fully last life­times and maybe even gen­er­a­tions. Does this sound like your busi­ness? Maybe or maybe not. But it

Desktop twitter apps. A down-and-dirty review.

Image via Crunch­Base If you’re still using Twit­ter from Twitter.com, I have to say you’re mak­ing it hard on your­self and you’re not get­ting all you can out of it. Desk­top apps are one way to make it eas­ier to track fol­low­ers, respond, orga­nize and mon­i­tor your pro­file or brand. I usu­ally make an effort to

When uncertainty makes things hard, become elastic

Image by pt via Flickr The world is a scary place when no one knows what’s going to hap­pen next. All the mod­els that told us how the econ­omy and mar­kets would behave aren’t work­ing. It’s time for all of us to change but no one knows exactly how. But if you resist change, chances

Top 10 reasons to rant somewhere other than your blog or your Twitter account

Lewis Black via last.fm Some peo­ple love to rant. Even more peo­ple love to rant on a blog. Some blogs were even cre­ated for peo­ple to rant about pol­i­tics, the price of milk, or even their ex’s groom­ing habits. In the non-digital world, peo­ple find that kind of behav­ior repul­sive. They sim­ply don’t want to

Social currency is the new capital

Image by Jim Lin­wood via Flickr Have you worked your ass off so you could get to a place where peo­ple have to come to you? Does you chest well up with pride because you’re an really impor­tant guy or gal?  You’ve got money, pres­tige, things and even a fancy title. Maybe you even belong

The Internet is “just like”..er nothing. So stop saying it is.

Image via Wikipedia Ed note: For the pur­pose of this post, when I say the Inter­net I’m includ­ing all Inter­net mar­ket­ing, includ­ing social media mar­ket­ing. Just about every meet­ing on social media or inter­ac­tive mar­ket­ing there is some­one who says it’s just like ___. You can put what ever you want in that blank because