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Antifunnel

For many agencies the path to a brand idea is a hasty, funnel-like process that cuts ideas without appropriate evaluation. They assume an idea that does not look good, must be bad. When really, it...

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Insight

By Simon Hunter “If we build it, they will come.” “Five percent. If I can only get five percent of my customers to buy another one, I’ll make my targets.” Marketing myopia may work for some people. But...

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Faith in the Potential

By Jennifer Wallace. The process of creating strategic, effective ideas can be (at times) be uncomfortable. In the beginning, you know the task at hand is to “uncover opportunities“–and it means...

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Plug. Unplug.

By Neves Rodrigues Today we are at the cusp of a paradigm shift. A digital time where collective knowledge and intelligence is readily available to feed and challenge the individual mind. A world...

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Chaos

Lawyers use “precedents”; Marketers use the “tried and true”; but creative people throw caution to the wind in pursuit of innovation. Strategic Creativity is the way in which we build solutions for our...

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Be Wrong to be Right

By Paul Newman. Thomas Edison quoted it best: “I have not failed. I’ve just found 10,000 ways that won’t work.” If you’re any bit like me, you’re the kind of person that can’t help but believe that...

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Journeys

by Paul Newman There’s a little old woman with a little white dog on my morning train walk and she always smiles and waves. There’s a guy that walks around Union Square with a cat on his head asking...

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Character & Tough Days

By Jim Moran. “The Entrepreneur’s Commandment List” As my wife was watching a reality show last night, I heard a great line that has stuck with me all day–“the true test of a person’s character is not...

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Happy People

By Jim Moran When I’m thinking about an ideal client, traits like intelligent, decisive, organized, and calm come to mind. But let’s throw in a new one as I don’t often hear it…HAPPY. Yes, I want happy...

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Private equity

By Dennis Fluet The Private Equity industry is so often vilified in the news and in conversation that outside of the industry’s own trade circles you rarely hear anything positive about PE. But as an...

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A pin in the map

By Simon Hunter The next time you visit Google Maps drop a pin on the corner of Eager St and North Wolfe St in East Baltimore. Use the street view function and have a look around. What are you seeing?...

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First Impressions

By Paul Newman “What is branding?” I probably get asked that question at least once a month from friends and acquaintances. I tell them it’s like meeting a person for the first time. Sometimes you like...

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Six Sentence Story

A Six Sentence Story gives an interesting (sometimes humorous) snapshot into peoples lives, likes and behaviors fed by 6 simple direct questions. The idea is to express the personality of a person or...

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Why Brand?

By Dean Crutchfield There’s a lot of confusion about what brand can do for a business. It’s key to recognize that brand is a reservoir of cash that’s not yet on the income statement, and a promise that...

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Private equity

By Dennis Fluet The Private Equity industry is so often vilified in the news and in conversation that outside of the industry’s own trade circles you rarely hear anything positive about PE. But as an...

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A pin in the map

By Simon Hunter The next time you visit Google Maps drop a pin on the corner of Eager St and North Wolfe St in East Baltimore. Use the street view function and have a look around. What are you seeing?...

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First Impressions

By Paul Newman “What is branding?” I probably get asked that question at least once a month from friends and acquaintances. I tell them it’s like meeting a person for the first time. Sometimes you like...

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Six Sentence Story

A Six Sentence Story gives an interesting (sometimes humorous) snapshot into peoples lives, likes and behaviors fed by 6 simple direct questions. The idea is to express the personality of a person or...

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Why Brand?

By Dean Crutchfield There’s a lot of confusion about what brand can do for a business. It’s key to recognize that brand is a reservoir of cash that’s not yet on the income statement, and a promise that...

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Magna Testimonial

  “Five years into Magna’s existence, and having experienced exponential growth, we decided that instead of tirelessly debating how to express all of the exciting things we were doing in words and...

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