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 [...]
Article published in Mercados Tendencias magazine. A Lovemark is a brand that has moved from a place in the market, to the heart of a culture. Good morning, iPod. It is a brand that has understood that the consumer not only wants [...]
His 1905 work, “Garcon a la pipe”, sold for $104.2 million, a record price to date for one of his works, a significant appreciation of the record price paid in 1987 for “Nu rose”, for $7.6 million. It is also the highest [...]
I will proceed to summarize the experience from a very personal perspective. To begin with, this was my second trip to Europe and I must admit that going from the relentless cold of Holland to the warm beaches of the south of [...]
