Tag: Agencies
Trauma bonded
On my first day, they told me I should use my standing desk more because maybe then I'd lose weight.
Heather Hurd
Is work making you sick?
I found myself having to compete against agency peers on client teams and was often excluded from internal client meetings. This was not what I expected from the ‘pitch’, and I noticed other, more junior staff, being treated in the same way.
Shelley Stuart
Fitting in is a failure
The most useful piece of advice I have heard is "In a crowded marketplace, fitting in is a failure. In a busy marketplace, not standing out is the same as being invisible" from Seth Godin.
Natalie Welch
The utterly unemployable entrepreneur
I was very honest with my buyers. I told them I was unstable. Including that, if I was up at 5 am, I was still partying with mates, clients, politicians, and celebrities.
Angie Moxham
AI couldn't match Don Draper
AI would be useless back in the “Mad Men” era. It couldn’t do what Don Draper did. No AI could pull off “It’s toasted.”
Jason Patterson
Good ads wear in, not out
There’s this fallacy that, even if it’s working, an ad should only be run for a couple of months before audiences will get sick of it.
Seb Mackay
The road to hell is paved with good intentions
I worked for a mobile tech start-up in San Diego in the early 2000s. This had some rockstar founders. I was part of their round one of hires.
Brian Jung
Growth, no matter what
I nearly killed my digital marketing agency by onboarding the wrong clients. I fell for the stupid “growth or perish” mantra.
Adriana Tica
Holding hands with the agency president
I had been a copywriter in advertising for about three years by then, which was just long enough to know I didn’t belong in that room.
Kevin Lynch
Saatchi Kate and Addict Kate
By all conventional measures, I was highly successful..but by 2004, I was struggling with addiction to alcohol.
Kate Smith