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20 Steps To Successful Job Hunting
(As a public service, the following is the distillation of many job hunts and my surfing of wild economic times. Read and share with anyone you know hunting for a job. “The Lint Screen” is working hard to get this economy running full blast.) Your boss asks you if “you have a minute”, and the…
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Our Wacky Biz
If you’re like me, you’re married to my wife and have two sons. You are also earning your daily bread by toiling in the mine shafts of advertising creativity. And if there’s a wilder, more woolly boolly, hurly-burly business, well I’d sure like to know about it! This ad game is chock…
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Wise Words of Encouragement for the Youth of Today
(The following is a commencement address given by Patrick Scullin, ECD of Ames Scullin O’Haire Advertising/Atlanta, to the graduating class of The Huckington School of Advertising Arts & Sciences & Whatnot in Stoneboro, Pennsylvania) Greetings, graduating class of 2008. I am honored to be here and delighted that this P.A. system is working. “Check, one-two.…
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An Adman on “Mad Men”
Television teaches a lot. To people outside the advertising industry, their view of our world was McMahon and Tate. What they knew of our profession was from watching “Bewitched” and seeing Darrin Stephens conjure up brilliant ideas and pitch them to clients as Larry Tate slapped them on the back and cheered Darrin on.…
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There’s Gold in Them Thar Fake Ads
What’s wrong with advertising these days? Advertising people. You grab a chair, I’ll grab a soapbox, let’s bitch this thing out. I recently met with an art director with about eight years experience tugging down a small fortune in salary. He took me through his book of nicely laminated ads and while he had…