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 […]
INFIRMA has acquired a VUTEK, and although it looks like just another large format digital printer, it has a particular condition: it is one of the best in the world today. In fact, it is used to exhibit photography and art in [...]
On Thursday afternoon at Cannes 2006, Maurice Saatchi rescued a concept that would make life easier for all of us if we applied it. His presentation was boring in the extreme, although I enjoyed it from the front row especially attracted by [...]
Ay ay ay, let’s laugh at me… Santo gives us another example of the power of insight when it is taken to an innovative way to discover it with a new lens. Life is how you take it, no matter how you [...]
Today I’m including as an attachment that you can download to your computer, a complete chapter of the book The Lovemarks Effect, which includes the Saatchi Saatchi Forum, for you and for a limited time. It will be on the blog for [...]
Now that we have a Wendy’s in Tribu’s neighborhood, I remembered this commercial from Saatchi NY and the creative team led by Tony Granger, precisely who won the 2007 Cannes Agency of the Year Lion a few months ago. I think you’ll [...]
Today we finally received the signal we were waiting for: it’s official. Movistar, our new big client has chosen us to be their creative partner in Costa Rica for an unprecedented launch in the country. Although until just a few weeks ago… [...]
Last night the results of Young Lions were announced, the creative duos that will represent our country in Cannes in the categories of Cyber, Print and Film. They were chosen by a jury made up of 19 renowned colleagues and friends of [...]
It is with great joy that I share with you some happy news: Costa Rica’s participation in Cannes is the largest in our short and successful history at Cannes Lions. With 58 entries for the country, the participating agencies will try to [...]
In this third entry regarding our advertising industry in Costa Rica, I bring to your screen a first and very simple proposal: let’s celebrate all the differences and since it is better to do it in a single forum, let’s coincide in [...]
At Incae I was taught a definition of strategy that I love. Strategy is about choices, about sacrificial decisions and about deliberately choosing to be different, as proposed by Michael Porter. Strategy is also about knowing clearly when to say no. Success [...]
In the twenty-something years of Tribu (formerly Consumer Publicidad), we didn’t always celebrate like we do now. We all know it and yet, we easily forget it. When we lost in a Pregonero or a Volcán, when we thought we were going [...]
