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Guns. Americans are obsessed with guns, the power to kill, and the right to possess lethal firepower. In most American states you can carry a weapon openly wherever you go. According to Giffords Law Center:  Carrying openly visible guns in public can quickly turn arguments fatal, be used to intimidate and suppress the First Amendment […]

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Millennial angst. It’s a thing, and the thing that it is isn’t good for the economy. Millennials are doing far worse financially than generations before them. The net worth of Americans aged 18 to 35 has dropped 34 percent since 1996, according to research released by Deloitte. When a generation reels, the impacts are felt […]

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Agencies rise and agencies fall. Let’s start with the bad news. Barton F. Graf, the small indie agency in NYC, like Wexley School for Girls in Seattle (and other “hot shops” before it), is closing down. Jeff Beer writes about advertising for Fast Company. When learning of the closing of Barton F. Graf, he pondered […]

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The Googs wants to do no harm. But monopolies, by definition, do harm. And when it comes to delivering news to your digital doorstep, the Mountain View-based technology company has no equal. Last year, Google made $4.7 billion from its news products. The journalists who create that content deserve a cut of that $4.7 billion, […]

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Advertising is not created in a vacuum. For advertising to work, a campaign must fit into the larger context of the customer’s life. Say you want to sell designer jeans to 20-somethings…the customers’ ability to pay the inflated prices will impact the results, thus the economy’s health is always a factor in a campaign’s success, […]

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“El presentador de noticias de 88 años” is a new effort to fight ageism from Fundación Las Rosas in Santiago and Chilevisión. The Chilean TV channel recently brought legendary Chilean anchorman Javier Miranda, 88, back to the primetime news show to deliver a special announcement about the value of senior citizens participating in today’s aging […]

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A job with the federal government may not be the most exciting job, but it offers some stability and the benefits are great. The downside, as we continue to learn, is that the federal government routinely sputters and like a normal business that’s poorly run, shuts down. During the present shutdown, now in its 3ist […]

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Do you know what ghosting is? It started with online dating, but the practice of disappearing in the middle of a project you’re working on, or a job interview you’re in the middle of, is now widespread. It’s a sickening trend and its end is not now in sight. The LinkedIn post I made about […]

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How are you feeling about tax time this year? Corporations, for the most part, are feeling good about reduced tax burdens, but what about individuals operating a business in today’s gig economy? Boulder-based Made, a marketing agency specializing in brand transformation, partnered with TaxAct to help freelancers and contract workers manage their tax needs and […]

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The stock market is on fire. So, why are advertising agency stocks are languishing on the vine? According to The New York Times, WPP, which owns agencies including Y&R and Ogilvy & Mather, said annual net sales may be flat or grow up to 1 percent as it reported that the measure shrank in the […]

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