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 […]
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 [...]
Since ASCAP achieved the representation of the most important creative advertising festival in the world, the country has connected, competes and wins among the best of the planet. Advanced advertising agencies, in a stimulus to their creative talent, have achieved finalists, as [...]
Today is one of those days when I have nothing to say and nothing to write about. However, one of those where these feelings, I wanted to share. Maybe tomorrow. Good day! PS By the way, yesterday surpassed 10,000 hits on this [...]
With only five days to go before the official period for the publication of the pieces that will participate in ASCAP’s VOLCAN in Costa Rica, we can expect that this will be the official week of the cheaters. I have been reluctantly [...]
Last.FM, a sensational world of resources for enjoying music. It takes a while to understand and some patience. However, the prize is a phenomenal resource for socializing around music, just as it makes the Apple store I normally use pale in comparison. [...]
We can already anticipate, a few steps away from finalizing key details, that for next year 2008 we will have a national contest to choose the duo that will travel to CANNES to the Young Creatives Competition, although we still don’t know [...]
“Come, I need you to give meaning to this heart, that finds no rest if not with you” says the chorus of this song that seems to have been inspired by our thirsty hearts, that to be completely open to you, I [...]
With the ASCAP Volcano just around the corner, and September 30 as the deadline to publish the pieces that will participate this year, I am pleased to tell you that we will have more judges than ever before for the next festival. [...]
