Wine plus Michigan equals . . .
. . . a dream assignment, if you ask me. Why? I like wine, a lot. I also like Michigan, also a lot. Therefore,…
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My home of homes is . . .
… Cleveland, Ohio. It’s where I was born. Where I was baptized. Where I went to college. And grad school. It’s where I worked for the first six years of my career. Until I left. That’s the nature of the advertising business. It’s a big industry and there are always more opportunities away from home. I’ve lived in Chicago. Twice. I’ve lived in Los Angeles. I’ve lived in San Francisco. I live in Detroit. Well, Detroit-adjacent, anyway (or is it Detroit-adjacent-adjacent?). I loved my time in Chicago. It’s a big, sprawling, majestic, old-school kind of city.
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Storytelling…
. . . is something you hear a lot about in the ad business. It can mean different things. The way a narrative unfolds…
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“Copywriter wanted” . . .
. . . is new news here at Factory. We’re looking to add a writer (I actually hate the word “copywriter” because it sounds…
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Sometimes you just know . . .
. . . or at least you have a pretty good idea. You immediately have the impression somebody’s the right person for a job…
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Frank Rose was a bad man . . .
. . . by any measure of what it means to be a bad man. He was abusive to the woman in his life;…
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Be careful . . .
. . . what you agree to. That’s an important takeaway from what transpired this year (and a bit of last year) as we…
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Her name is Izabela . . .
. . . Skonieczka. That last name is pronounced Skoy-nyetch-kuh. At least that’s the way I pronounce it, so it must be right. She…
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Rollin’ & Trollin’ . . .
. . . was the theme here at Factory yesterday. We’re looking to hire a new copywriter and found ourselves in a “fish where the…
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“I’m hiring” . . .
. . . is one of those LinkedIn tropes that drives me up a wall. That’s because 99% of the time when you see…
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What kind of clients . . .
. . . are you looking for? It’s a question I’ve heard a lot since we started Factory. I think when people ask it,…
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Our name is Factory . . .
. . . for a lot of reasons: Detroit, where we live, is a factory town. Cleveland, where I grew up, is a…
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The idea of talent . . .
. . . is a contentious thing, apparently. At least that’s the impression I got from this book I started reading a while back….
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Who gets credit . . .
. . . in the advertising business is a subject much discussed, debated, argued and even, sometimes, ridiculed. On the one hand, advertising…
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“Big” and “small”. . .
. . . are relative constructs, of course. How big does something have to be to qualify as “big” in the common sense…
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The Avengers changed my life . . .
. . . might sound like an exaggeration. But isn’t. Way back in June 1976, the summer when I was 12 years…
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Commercials that don’t suck . . .
. . . are of course wildly outnumbered by those that do. The science fiction writer Theodore Sturgeon long ago tersely framed an observation…
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Car advertising clichés . . .
. . . get me down. Here you have the greatest branded good ever devised. Ever. And this incredible diversity of vehicle types,…
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April 15, 2014 . . .
. . . was a year ago today. It was overcast in Cleveland, Ohio. It was cool outside. And it was the day my…
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“Faith and marketing” . . .
. . . gets about 300 thousand hits on Google. “Marketing and faith” gets about 200 thousand. One might expect more, but one…
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Leaders, managers, bosses . . .
. . . supervisors, superiors, directors, chiefs, captains, head honchos. There’s a reasonably broad vocabulary for describing those in the workplace in charge of…
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The not-so-terrible “terrible twos” . . .
. . . have been on my mind these days. On April 2, Factory celebrates our first second anniversary. We’ll also have a second second…
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