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 […]
This seeking a relationship with God is much simpler than it sounds, especially if we seek Him for a relationship rather than a religion. After all, Jesus’ invitation to Matthew was summed up in one word: “Follow me”. In the following [...]
NEWS –> Festival – Costa Rica Jotabequ Grey, the Church and Tribu DDB, the big winners of Volcán 2010 (01/03/10). In its first expanded edition, the Volcán festival recognized the best advertising creativity in Central America, Guatemala, Honduras, El Salvador, Nicaragua, Panama [...]
Today we could repeat in Tribu enough awards to be Agency of the Year in the Volcán Festival for the second consecutive year. We doubled in finalists to our closest competitor in this contest, jotabeqú, and a little more to Ogilvy, so [...]
Raising the creativity of advertising agencies and commercial communication companies requires a clear understanding of the forces that can improve our competitiveness, so hopefully some key players in the market who are visibly unaware of them will read these paragraphs. And I [...]
The competition has been heating up with the addition of categories and the presentation of all the candidates for Volcanoes. While Tribu DDB has achieved the absolute majority of the finalists, scoring more than any other agency to repeat the top Volcano, [...]
J.K. Rowling Speaks at Harvard Commencement from Harvard Magazine on Vimeo. JK Rowling penned the bestselling Harry Potter page-turners — a spellbinding, seven-installment fantasy of wizards, warlocks and decidedly British texture that brought her from rags to riches. Why you should listen [...]
One fine day in prehistoric times, my mother came up with the wonderful idea of moving me to a bilingual school. Gud morning. While that maternal inspiration was crucial in my life, it happily also led to an early and brief encounter [...]
In attention and appreciation to the courtesy of the response published in the Costa Rica Esencial website, I allow myself to copy/paste it and leave it here for the consideration of the readers of“A fuego lento“. I have allowed myself to add [...]
The remarkable and competent government authorities have reported that the new country brand, Esencial Costa Rica, was achieved with a process that began in 2008 and whose cost amounted to $650,000 dollars. Therefore, the first thing I must say is that by [...]
The creative advertising world applauded “ The Most Popular Song” at Cannes 2012, awarding it Lions and a Grand Prix. Because a simple idea can be powerful enough to influence a country, make a difference and contribute to making it a better [...]
A few days ago I published a note that claims that creativity that wins at festivals is 7 times more effective, according to the Gunn Report. That is to say, advertising creative awards, such as Cannes, Ojo, Volcán or Pregonero, nowadays have [...]
First of all, I remind you of Zanders’ rule #6: don’t take yourself too seriously. Then, the question always jumps to a simple “and what are the first 5 rules?”. The answer then is to be expected: they don’t exist and it [...]