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 the early days of our agency, located in the room of my parents’ house that my brother Carlos vacated, the then Consumer had its first network: a Mac 512 and a Mac SE, my brother’s computer and mine. From one desk [...]
Jorge Galeano’s memory will live forever in our memories, because his role was crucial in the beginning of our company. Que de Dios Goce, Jorge opened the first accounting books, made the first financial statements and came to put order in that [...]
We brought him from McCann-Erickson with a mission, to make him the first digital artfinalist in the country. As a young master of graphic arts, Fernando turned to Mac to learn the new way of making art. He dedicated, on one long [...]
Alvaro Fernández entered our agency with the credentials of Doña Rotunda on his chest, a character created for the National Lottery that made havoc, history and provoked big smiles. With us, he dedicated much of his talent to Cofal, as well as [...]
When I proposed to Marjorie González to move from GM (Gutiérrez Machado), a respectable agency of those years, she accepted for reasons that I still don’t understand, since she decided to join an embryonic company and the one she was joining as [...]
Legendary Hernán Ortega, the first advertising creative graduated from a university, recognized, great, successful and with a great trajectory up to that moment, Hernán accepted to join Consumer, which honored me, moved me and gave me great confidence, strength and impulse. With [...]
The jails are full of people who thought they had found a shortcut. The courts keep seeing cases of every type, flavor, color and size related to those who thought they could cut a corner, jump a roadblock or circumvent a process. [...]
Today is Publicist’s Day and this is a very good thing. On my side, I do not even know at what time I have already added more than 35 years of being an advertiser. Advertising is the occupation, activity, profession, art and [...]
It seems that the end of the usual menu is near, as well as the typical way of ordering food or drinks in a restaurant. Unfortunately, the bill will keep coming and therefore, we will have to keep ringing the American Express. [...]
A few days ago I heard an opinion that left me cold: Intel’s exit was completely inevitable. Really? And why Israel, being outside the Asian production zone and despite being a country with high costs in general, is the chosen destination for [...]
At the end of this Holy Week, we arrive once again to Easter Sunday. We go through Lent, Palm Sunday, Maundy Thursday and Good Friday, the stories, recreations, processions, celebrations, masses, traditions, cults and everything that happens with more intensity during Holy [...]
A few years ago when we were preparing the Osa Campaign, the one that brought thousands of tattoos to our skin, what I said in that environment could have been adverse and aggressive to the idea. I was simply wrong, as the [...]
