You are not too late to enjoy the benefits of social media — you will never be too late — because the spoils in social media marketing go to the company that can maintain its social media participation over the long haul over the long term. Start now, start later, and I guarantee that if you’r...

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Wishing all of you a prosperous New Year! (we can use it...). Please also check out 10 Leading Trends for Social Media in 2009 at Media Transparent. 1) 2009 is the Year of the Mortgage.Historically low interest rates artificially pushed down to stabilize the economy will be a once-in-a-lifetime wind...

Some you lose: We learned late last week that a couple of pitches we'd just done at W+K London were unsuccessful. Very disappointing after all the hard work everyone put in. But that's the way it goes sometimes. Some you win: W+K Portland heard on Friday that their pitch for Levi's US bu...

I had a conversation with my SVP the other day who thought there was some bad blood between me and one of our client contacts. I couldn’t believe he even suggested that! I responded with a big-eyed “No waaaaaaay! That guy loves me over there. Everybody loves me!� Wait a minute, not everybody l...

Then discover… “How to Create a Profitable, Pioneering Business with Purpose, Passion & Meaning…� Is This You? I want to be passionate about my work – I’m bored I feel stuck in a rut – I’m confused about how to move forward I want to start my own business but don’t know what ki...

this is an interesting article from the design council on procuring design services. although i can't imagine many people who would benefit from reading this will be digging round the design council's site. none the less it's worth a read and it got me thinking of all the different ways in which cli...

                                          W+K has had a pretty good conversion record on new business pitches – around 4 wins out of 5 pitches for the last two or three yea...

I had a very interesting conversation this evening where someone asked me “Why do I blog?�….�Why am I trying to do the whole Hard Knox Life thing?�  It’s a question I have seen plenty of other bloggers answer.  Some do it for creativity, some do it to vent and some do it because they j...

Dan and I just finished remixing the live albums for both Sorry About Dresden and The Radials. Both bands gave us similar feedback on our original mix — vocals dominated while the instruments faded at times — so we took a few hours tonight to make the changes. It was worth it, as they bo...