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 […]
Today I walked into a meeting at Comunicación Corporativa / Ketchum and found 5 Volcanes at the reception desk. That’s right, not one, not two, not three but five awards collected at last Saturday’s Volcano Festival. This is the case that even [...]
At about 15 minutes before midnight, we celebrated in Tribu the 4th consecutive Volcano for Agency of the Year. After a demanding and not at all complacent awarding, this year’s jury distributed prizes among several companies, although once again we scored enough [...]
We all want success and fame. We want to be admired, respected and even applauded. Right? On a Volcano, in Cannes, Hollywood or in a public square, on stage or at home. Yet, when someone asks: Who has achieved real success, few [...]
Since Volcano hasn’t happened yet, I don’t have much new to tell you. What I can think is that it will be the prelude to a pitched battle next year for several reasons. If we consider this week’s competition, we could expect [...]
“Start at the end and work your way back to the beginning” is Andrew Stanton’s summary of storytelling. With English subtitles, I think you will want to apply his ideas every time you are going to speak in public, give a presentation, [...]
The COMUNIDAD de Empresas de Comunicación Comercial de Costa Rica presents the Pellizco y su Volcán. It is the local championship of advertising and commercial creativity, as the first Central American stage in the direction of the world. For sure we will [...]
We usually ignore our areas of greatest opportunity, so it should come as no surprise to discover them on radio. Here are some of the best pieces from last year’s Cannes, so the spaces are in sight and sound. However, it should [...]
. The race for the first lion for Central America is open, and in 2008 the question could be answered: Who hunted the first lion? What agency achieved the first? Who starts the harvest? Gold, silver or bronze? Does the color of [...]
There is much to learn from the elegance and class with which the world’s most famous actors applaud each other. With great dignity and solid attitude, the cameras focus on the winner, not without glancing at those who were competing for that [...]
TRIBU / Saatchi Saatchi won a gold, two silvers and a bronze in the Caribbean, to start 2008 very well in their legitimate quest to be creative winners at festivals as well. For many years we have won as a company and [...]
And Ogilvy Costa Rica the most awarded agency. Brutal! That’s how LatinSpots reads today about the results in the Caribbean 2008, so we’ve started the year off on the right foot and in the right direction, and we’ll have plenty of reason [...]
I highly recommend this book published by Lawrence Harrison and Samuel Huntington, as it helps to understand the reasons why there are countries prone to development, while many of us live in others prone to underdevelopment. Unfortunately for us Latin Americans, we [...]
