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 […]
From Melbourne, we got the stupid ways to die, in reference to the carelessness with which people usually expose themselves in dangerous places. In this particular case by McCann, in relation to the city’s trains and the accidents they seek to reduce [...]
I am convinced that each one of us can contribute to making the world a better place, even at the risk of sounding cliché. We can do it in our homes, in the community we live in, in the country we live [...]
A few days ago I published a post with the campaign of the moment by Dove, called“Sketches“. It has been so well received that it is among the most shared in the world. However, there is another idea from the same brand, [...]
The new advertising creative year has just begun and we are already counting down. So, how about if we all agree and go to 2014 to repeat Lions? In 2008 a Costa Rican agency won the first Cannes Lions, which are something [...]
Every problem is an opportunity. Every limitation is a possibility. Every aspiration can be a realization. Every person can achieve their goals, of course, if you pay the price with discipline, sacrifice, passion and commitment. When I learned about the super humanity [...]
Since last week we have migrated my blog to La Nación, the main media in Costa Rica. Check it out. Periodically we will be uploading the published entries, so that the archive, which to date has more than 1,500 entries, will continue [...]
When in our villages they spoke of someone straight, with good luck or facilities for success, they said that it was someone who “fell standing upright”. When a successful woman married someone with money, they said that “there is nothing like “caer [...]
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 [...]
