“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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mParks: Come Out And Play
Suppose you’re the statewide organization that speaks for over 2,000 state, county and local parks and recreation areas. What do you…
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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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mParks: Factory refreshes 80 year old Michigan recreation brand
Inviting residents to “Come Out And Play,” the Michigan Recreation and Park Association today unveiled its new brand identity…
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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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