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What the hell inspires me? Actually, you can.

Share As a writer and cre­ative per­son, inspi­ra­tion is some­thing I’m sup­posed to know a lot about. I shouldn’t need your help, because I’m inspired to write witty, inter­est­ing things all the time, right? Cer­tainly I’ve got a direct line to the muse? Unfor­tu­nately, there’s no bat phone for writ­ers. Arti­cle con­tin­ues here on agency

Why your advertising sucks part 4: You want it to do everything.

Share Image via Wikipedia Quick, how many copy points can you fit into a 60 sec­ond radio spot? The answer should be one. But many ads that really suck the big one are about two or three things – maybe even more. This is real easy to observe in a print ad. Just open your local

Time to stop pussy footing, creative folks.

Share Image by musha68000 via Flickr I’m a copy­writer and also a social media guy. So a post by Jim Mitchem got me fired up last week. And it also got me think­ing about the role that cre­ative folks are play­ing in the social space right now. The real­ity is we’re not doing all that