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 […]
If you are not, let’s assume that you are among the general public, and not a puclicist, advertiser or any media or digital media. So, with everyone leveled up as busy people going about their happy lives, is there anyone out there [...]
Exactly 25 years ago today, Alexandra Franco opened the doors of the Casa de los Niños Montessori in Escazú, the kindergarten that today is called Hometwo. This long journey triggered the modern Montessori movement spread throughout the country in early childhood education. [...]
As customers, we do not have a monopoly on the truth, although we always have the power to decide, to choose whether to approve or reject, to return or leave, to recommend or not, to repeat or discard. I believe that the [...]
Fear paralyzes, curtails, delays, annuls, petrifies, disables. Fear subjugates, subordinates, crushes, stuns and degrades. Fear humiliates, lulls and disarms, fear is a scourge and should not be part of your life. Overcome your fears! Fear is subjective, personal, it is up to [...]
“Disorganized media and advertising clients” This post may sound relevant to media, brands and agencies only. However, for those who are not in these sectors, isn’t it true that we want better advertising, better brands, more value for our money? Who wants [...]
When it’s my birthday is when I think of the story that could be told about me, possibly I’m aiming for too much again if I think something will be said. I guess hopefully someone will say a short phrase, like “the [...]
It has been confirmed once again how the Costa Rican Volcanoes are growing, when the country’s main advertising agency reaches a record number of pieces and collections, which anticipates a new and successful award event for commercial creativity. At the close of [...]
There are ideas that become a giant advertising classic the first time they are aired, as it happened with this Bavaria commercial the night it was aired on Channel 7’s Dancing for a Dream. If you haven’t seen it, it’s time to [...]
No one has won more lions at Cannes than David Droga, now Creative Chairman of DROGA5, his new independent project, who without any major complication achieved a new color in his collection of lions, titanium. The video shows us how those who [...]
There is a dimension that we all have to resolve, as much as the physical, intellectual and sentimental. This dimension of our being is often subordinated and even ignored, but it is clearly as important as the most important and it is [...]
Back to basics. With the YES confirmed at the polls, it is a good time to renew our personal commitments to growth and improvement. Back to basics and back to basics: moving from presence to significance, with God as the guide in [...]
