It pays to remember that most survey responses come from people who enjoy answering surveys. The rest come from malcontents and ne’er-do-wells.

Do you and your company want to show your customers that you care about human effort? Do you want to support fresh, new, non-box-checking, non-AI films? That's what the CREDO23 Film Festival is for. All the festival proceeds are granted to the filmmakers via our 501c3, after

I refuse to be a high-value customer.

We serve our clients best when we refuse to be servile in the least.

I feel like I'm in my own Fountains of Wayne song titled "Suburban WFH Dad." Suburban work-from-home day must have a meeting today! Wearing a dress shirt with shorts is the remote meeting way. Etc., etc.

Dearest Creative, I didn’t ask if the new client interests you. I asked if you can make them interesting. Love, LCB

A copywriter who can only write for a single medium probably shouldn’t be trusted with that one, either.

Agencies love clients who know enough to know when they don’t know enough. Clients, naturally, feel likewise.

Mediocre advertising doesn’t cause people to think less of you because it doesn’t cause them to think of you at all.

Great advertising hits like a ton of feathers.

Me: Give me a list of historical and cultural events from the past five years, 12 per month. ChatGPT: Here's a list of 12 dates per month with "placeholder" instead of an event. Me: Why would I want that? ChatGPT: ... Me: ... ChatGPT: Here's an image of the six-fingered man

Collaboration is generally good in the macro and sometimes good in the micro. Just remember that no one ever pops up to collaborate with their brain surgeon while lying on the table.

Hard pass, spam.

Are the jackwagons done trying to add extras Ps to the 4 Ps of Marketing, or did I just successfully manage to mute them all?

If commanding respect isn’t high on your agency’s list of capabilities, you’ll soon be quite skilled at jumping through hoops.

On this day in 1980, my own father tossed me into the pokey for failing to rewind a VHS copy of "Race for Your Life, Charlie Brown" before returning it to the Captain Video store in Raytown Plaza.

Great advertising is hard to conceive, hard to produce, and hard to maintain. The greats only made creating it look easy because they made fighting for it a habit.