I’m just like my idol, Sydney Bristow, but with significantly fewer cool wigs/outfits. Last summer, I started working at McGarrah Jessee (you can see me for .1 seconds in the video around 2:19), and ever since I’ve been traveling to Austin about once a month. So now I have my Boston life and my Austin … Continue reading Living a Double Life
A $25K mistake in a TV “billboard,” the still frames they show while a voiceover says, “Sponsored by blah blah blah.” It was for Pampers and our tagline at the time was, “Pamper the skin they’re in.” I had trafficked out slides (yes, slides, I’m that old) that said, “Pamper the skin their in.” The … Continue reading Things I’ve Survived During a Long Career in Advertising
Do you know why I went into advertising? Because I saw the movie “Crazy People.” In the film, Emory Leeson, played by the fabulous Dudley Moore, gets so stressed out by his job as an “advertising executive” (which, like in most ad movies, is actually a hybrid account executive/creative director/media planner role), that he gets … Continue reading Adventures in Advertising – Part 1
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