Agency Life
Winning the MAX Awards
Wow, humbled doesn’t begin to describe the way I feel right now. This morning, only a few hours ago, Dragon Army was awarded the grand prize of the MAX Awards, the annual Marketing Awards for Excellence. We won for the campaign we ran last year with Arby’s in our game, Robots Love Ice Cream. I’ve dreamed…
Read MoreMy Startup Grind talk, where I spill my guts, has been changed to March 17th…
We had to move the date of the Startup Grind Fireside chat but the good news is that it will be the first night event at the Atlanta Tech Village’s new event space, which opens that same day! I’m really excited about spilling my guts :) Sign up and ask me some tough questions!
Read MoreOn March 11th I’ll be spilling my guts – come watch!
I’m honored to be asked by Chris Richards and the Startup Grind crew to speak at their Fireside Chat on March 11th. I’ve really enjoyed their past events as the talks are intimate so you get to know the entrepreneur fairly well by the end of it. Things I’ll likely be talking about: – Where…
Read MoreThe truth about the broken relationship between advertising agencies and clients
Yesterday I was on a panel at an AMA (American Marketing Association) event with Del Ross, Mike Racic, and Rick Radermacher, moderated by the great Glen Caruso. The topic was (and I’m paraphrasing), “Why is the advertising agency and client relationship so screwed up?!”. At least that’s what I would have called it. Having been…
Read MoreI wasn’t lying when I said I funded my first company with personal credit cards
Raghu (a great friend and one of my partners at Spunlogic) recently found this print out of the credit cards that laid out their balances and APR as of 6/8/06. As I’ve mentioned before, we self-funded Spunlogic through personal credit cards until we were able to get a line of credit with Suntrust (you can…
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