You know those guys, don’t you? The ones always posting the first scoop on what happened at ABC&D agency?
Well that’s Adomatica, a staple in the Austin (and national ad scene). He’s never ripped us before, but I felt obliged to stand up for our fellow ad men and women and give him a bit of [...]

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“Wow, cool chart – it’s got a slider. How much do I need to retire?”

“Wait, this slider isn’t working. I’m grabbing the art off the page. WTH?”
It would have been the bee’s knees to manipulate that sliding chart on the homepage, after all I was just there to get into our checking account. This was [...]

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Professional hockey is on it’s way to Austin, TX! Well, it used to be here in the form of the Ice Bats, but now legitimate NHL hockey is a year away.
If you live in the live music capital of the world, you may have seen these OOH and Banner ads:

A couple people we polled wondered [...]

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Picture this… two Stalelifers walk to a big meeting to propose alternative marketing ideas to The Chicago Tribune. Along the way, on Lower Wacker Drive, one of the pair sees a wallet lying on the ground.
Joe: “Kurt, check this out, someone dropped a wallet.”
Kurt: “No way, is there an ID?”
Sure enough, there was an ID. [...]

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One of our favorite partners frowarded this video to our attention. It was created by Geert Desager, a Marketing Manager with Microsoft.
All too often we only know our consumers as statistics on a spreadsheet. When, in fact, the new idealism found in pace-setting companies is all about communication.
When you think about advertising and direct marketing [...]

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