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Posts Tagged ‘Advertising

26 Nov, 2008

Hockeytown Lingo

Posted by: j3r3my In: Advertising

I grew up in a hockey town. The Victoria Cougars were known to all the locals as the “cats.” When someone asked what you were doing on a Friday night – you were going to the “cats” game and no one questioned what the heck that was. It was interesting to me that the Rochester [...]

24 Nov, 2008

The Grape Escape

Posted by: j3r3my In: Events|Life

Once again this year I managed to get myself and a few friends down to the Calgary Co-op’s Grape Escape at the Round-up center. Every year the suppliers to the Coop liquor store (and the main grocery store) put together and all-you-can-eat / all-you-can-drink show and each year it is a ton of fun. This [...]

18 Oct, 2008

Agency-work and Facebook

Posted by: j3r3my In: Advertising|Technology

Facebook is just a tool. It is a tool for communicating, re-connecting, sharing and sending the occasional “poke.” As it pertains to agency-work, where we are striving to build, drive and help create an experience online for a brand, Facebook should be viewed as this – just a tool. When a client comes in for [...]

15 Oct, 2008

Dear Metallica

Posted by: j3r3my In: Music

I had the displeasure of hearing your latest single and to be completely honest I thought it was a local wannabe metal band being showcased on the “homegrown” show. It’s been a while since you last released an album and the last time anything “Metallica” was in the news – Lars was bashing Napster. I [...]

20 Sep, 2008

Music In Advertising

Posted by: j3r3my In: Advertising|Music

The other night while watching Entourage, I noticed that almost every commercial had a version of a popular song playing in the background. After the second or third round of commercials – and seeing the same group of them play again I made an interesting discovery. Almost every single one was using music from the [...]

01 Sep, 2008

Customer Service goes a long way

Posted by: j3r3my In: Events|Life

I am going to write the abbreviated version of this post. I’m in Toronto on vacation and spent a good portion of the morning at my favorite brewery – Steamwhistle Brewery. I have been to a LOT of brewery tours and have never experienced the level of customer service I have experienced at this particular [...]




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