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Companies often use celebrities in advertising because of the name recognition and emotions that a celebrity evokes.  Sometimes this does not always work out so well, as happened with Kellogg’s partnership with Michael Phelps earlier in 2009 after a photograph surfaced of him using a bong at a party and with McDonald’s partnership with Kobe…

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Even though we are still experiencing high unemployment, every recruiter has positions in their company that seem impossible to fill. Sometimes it’s an inconsistency between the expectations of the position and the proposed salary. Or perhaps it’s a position that unrealistically encompasses too many job categories; such as “need knowledge of graphic design, marketing, database…

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They say nothing in life is certain except death and taxes. In my small nook of the world, the other certainty is the little house I pass going to and from work that plants hundreds of impatiens along the roadside every year. They start as small seedlings in early spring, and by the summer they…

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Anybody out there remember Gresham’s Law? No, not the 1960’s police drama — that was Burke’s Law, starring Gene Barry (does anyone remember Gene Barry, for that matter?). Well, you may have encountered Sir Thomas Gresham’s 16th century law in your high school or college economics class. It concerned monetary policy and the relationship between…

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I have been studying and working in graphic design for the past seven years. There are several factors that contribute to making a project or campaign successful and, in my opinion, choice of typeface is the most important. Selecting the appropriate typeface is key. Each type font has a personality and an image… it is…

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I have been in recruitment advertising for 30 years and I have never seen such a downturn in Newspaper advertising as I have in over the past 2 years. I feel the reason is what I call ‘the double whammy”. The first of these whammies are the job websites — it’s much cheaper to post…

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Thanks to Turner Classic Movies I recently got to watch a movie I last saw in 1969. It happens to be one which I’ve mentioned frequently to friends and coworkers when discussing our emerging digital media. The film is a satirical comedy called The President’s Analyst, and while being frighteningly prophetic it also demonstrates the…

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This is the official Sanna Mattson MacLeod blog, where each week you’ll find blog posts from a member of the SMM team. We are a full-service advertising agency, which means you’ll be seeing posts related to each of departments, such as Recruitment, Art, Media, Communication, Creative and — my personal favorite —New, or Social Media.…

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