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Websites with Linger
Two years ago, my wife and I took an amazing trip to Northeast France and Belgium. We spent four days in Bruges, which is maybe Europe’s most picturesque town. Bruges is home to some of Belgium’s best beer destinations, including several amazing beer bars, beer-themed restaurants and a brewery museum that showcases Belgian brewing circa [...]
Decking Our Walls
Underwhelmed by the thought of another agency lobby with a flat screen mindlessly cycling through our work and potentially burning images into the retina of our clients’ eyes – Pop Art decided it was time to get some real art on the walls. Selecting art that portrays the culture of an agency is not an easy [...]
I say potato, you think Vichyssoise. Let’s talk.
In my 10+ years of managing projects, teams and client expectations, I’ve come to the conclusion that the most common threat to the success of relationships and projects is simple lack of communication. Why simple? Because usually the simplest misunderstanding at the outset of an engagement is where it all starts to skid downhill. For example, [...]
Sticky Wall 2.0
This year, Pop Art participated in Colaboratory for the first time, Portland Ad Fed’s revolutionary new internship program. We had three different interns over six weeks, from both the design and writing disciplines. Each intern was here for just eight working days (Monday – Thursday), which was some of my initial hesitation in participating in the [...]
iPhone 3.0 and Amazon Kindle: How Much Will They Pay?
When Amazon rolled out the Kindle iPhone App (iTunes link), it lacked one key feature: the ability to purchase new books or subscriptions through the iPhone. You still have to go to Amazon.com to get your content, then sync your account via iPhone. (And yes, I’m totally spoiled for whining about a simple extra step [...]
Managing During Hard Times: A First-Timer’s Perspective
What’s a new manager to do during their first real big downturn? There’s a lot of conflicting feelings, obligations and advice about how to manage during a recession. I’ve been sorting through it in my own mind, and have developed my own mental checklist. Know Yourself I went through the “dot-bomb” back in 2001, but I was [...]
How to Time Your Holiday Email Marketing
A friend of mine writes and manages the online marketing for a local online retailer, and asked via Facebook about how to time her holiday email marketing to her customers. I’d been tweeting (thomschoenborn on Twitter) about a webinar from Nielsen Online about online holiday shopping, and she shot me a message asking about Black [...]
Motrin Messes with Mommy-Bloggers and Loses
This morning, Annie told me about a Motrin ad that a bunch of mom-bloggers were angry about because it was critical of babywearing. She was really upset about it, and convinced that it was an intentional slam on mothers. Since I work in marketing, and Annie majored in Sociology, we tend to have conversations like [...]
Who is Pop Art?
In the course of re-launching the website for our interactive agency, we wanted to bring the Pop Art people forward. After all, Pop Art is in the business of interactive advertising and marketing services. Services that are provided by people who like to laugh, explore geeky things, and do great work. The question became, “What [...]
