The Biz: Want to be a Good Boss? Read this….
I came into the advertising business in 1974 at the age of six. I was the manager in a department of one for my dad’s side home business preparing and disseminating press releases via the United States Postal Service. I prepared envelopes sticking the 1″ x 2-5/8″ white labels perfectly straight on number ten sized […]
The Biz: Advertising Agency Origins, Part 2
In the last installment of The Biz, I told you origin stories about my life in the New York ad agency world, including phone stabbings, death threats, and furniture throwing. That was just the start of my eccentric co-workers from whom I learned anger management, or lack thereof. Here’s a few more stories to finish […]
The Ad Biz: Office Stabbings and Media Guy Origins
“Give me your tired, your poor, Your huddled masses yearning to breathe free, The wretched refuse of your teeming shore. Send these, the homeless, tempest-tossed to me, I lift my lamp beside the golden door!” This is the famous passage from the Statue of Liberty poem. New Colossus and its famous last lines have become […]
The Death of the Small Ad Agency
Goldilocks says to choose just the right size agency… With all of my awards show and hockey talk lately, I’ve heard from quite of few loyal readers, that I haven’t given enough attention to the nuts and bolts of the ad business as of late. This got me thinking of my current passion [read: not […]
