All the texts I’ve recently published in The Slow Burn have been born from a desire to share and inspire. I emphasize this because I recognize that it wasn’t always like this. In the past, when I called myself a publicist and entrepreneur, my writing was often driven by a need to build my personal […]
In attention and appreciation to the courtesy of the response published in the Costa Rica Esencial website, I allow myself to copy/paste it and leave it here for the consideration of the readers of“A fuego lento“. I have allowed myself to add [...]
The remarkable and competent government authorities have reported that the new country brand, Esencial Costa Rica, was achieved with a process that began in 2008 and whose cost amounted to $650,000 dollars. Therefore, the first thing I must say is that by [...]
The creative advertising world applauded “ The Most Popular Song” at Cannes 2012, awarding it Lions and a Grand Prix. Because a simple idea can be powerful enough to influence a country, make a difference and contribute to making it a better [...]
A few days ago I published a note that claims that creativity that wins at festivals is 7 times more effective, according to the Gunn Report. That is to say, advertising creative awards, such as Cannes, Ojo, Volcán or Pregonero, nowadays have [...]
First of all, I remind you of Zanders’ rule #6: don’t take yourself too seriously. Then, the question always jumps to a simple “and what are the first 5 rules?”. The answer then is to be expected: they don’t exist and it [...]
Every day, advertising influences the world intensely, profusely and repeatedly with creative ideas to change the world. The Cannes Lions International Festival of Creativity and the Bill Melinda Gates Foundation know this, and have teamed up to promote the use of creativity [...]
A couple of years ago I bought on iTunes a full-length movie with a single theme: Helvetica. (In the video, prologue of the movie) I’ve watched it a couple of times and I enjoy it enormously, because between loving it and loving [...]
Today The Openhouse Project presented the third video talk of It’s Personal, a series that reminds us how personal it is to achieve a relationship with God. In this video that I include here is the most important fragment for you to [...]
With less than two weeks until my next marathon, these videos are a marvel for motivation as I write with a cold and torn to shreds from an extremely untimely flu. The variables for a marathon, as for almost everything in life, [...]
When you count the years in decades and one or two are no longer enough, it is time to recognize the ball or pineapple, whatever you want to call it, but clearly the amount of time that has accumulated as in my [...]
I spent 10 years of my life at McCann-Erickson, from the first as an advertiser to the last as an employee. Today I have little left of that company, as I have changed and so has McCann. However, the affection and appreciation [...]
Hold a focus group.
