Building a campaign timeline backwards from the launch date
Forward planning tends to run out of usable time just when the work matters most, because early tasks quietly expand to fill whatever space is available, and the final...
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Forward planning tends to run out of usable time just when the work matters most, because early tasks quietly expand to fill whatever space is available, and the final...
Read moreAn audience rarely experiences a brand through a single channel alone these days. They might see an advertisement, visit a website, read a social post and speak to a...
Read moreAn objective agreed only after a campaign has already run tends to bend suspiciously toward whatever the eventual results happened to show, which is precisely why the honest...
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A practitioner representing two clients with overlapping or competing interests carries an obligation to...

An embargo is a courtesy extended to journalists, offering advance material on the shared understanding...

Earned coverage carries a credibility that cannot simply be purchased, because an audience understands that...

Most campaigns do not fail for lack of creativity. They fail because too many goals are asked of one plan...

A core promise is the single commitment a brand makes to everyone who engages with it in any way, the one...

A pitch arriving an hour before a publication's daily deadline competes directly with every other demand on...
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