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Ad Agency CEO’s — How To Build A Smart Phone App: 30 Tutorials

Peter · April 6, 2013 ·

An idea… all ad agency CEO’s should learn how to place a Google Ad, Facebook Ad and build a smart phone app. It’s time for them to step up to understanding the digital world before it eats them.

Whether you’re building an iPhone, iPad, Android, Windows, Facebook or cross-platform app, this superb selection of tutorials will help you on your way…

Read more from the source: creativebloq.com

Wasserman + Partners: Ad Agency of The Week (Gets Blogging)

Peter · April 4, 2013 · Leave a Comment

I am building a presentation for the 4A’s on good, bad and ugly advertising agency websites and social media programs from the perspective of business development. In my travels across the globe and my Pinterest advertising agency directory, I happend upon Vancouver’s Wasserman + Partners Advertising.

Wasserman + Partners is the largest full-service agency in British Columbia (that’s in the upper left hand corner of Canada.) Their message:

LET’S LAY IT ALL OUT ON THE TABLE HERE, SHALL WE. WE ARE WESTERN CANADA’S LOCALLY OWNED, LOCALLY OPERATED, SILO-FREE, EGO-FREE, CREATIVELY STRATEGIC, STRATEGICALLY CREATIVE, CAFFEINE GUZZLING, COFFEE-CUP RECYCLING, MILK DRINKING, HIGH ENERGY, LOW DRAMA, KARAOKE SINGING, MICROPHONE SWINGING, FULLY INTEGRATED, FULL-SERVICE, AND FULL-ON INDEPENDENT ADVERTISING AGENCY. ANYTHING WE MISSED THAT YOU’D LIKE TO KNOW?

What I like:

Wasserman’s website is simple, easy to navigate and gets out their brand message without complexity. Look at dozens of agency websites and ask yourself why so much clutter? These guys are into simplicity and isn’t that what much advertising is built on?

Blogs   Wasserman   Partners AdvertisingI think my favorite section is the blog. While it is built into the home page, an element that is often overdone, Wasserman has done an excellent job of incorporating the blog into the page that essentially has two sections: the work and what people are saying. Click on Saying and you go to one of the very rare blogs that delivers personality and a who’s who of the agency staff. In most blogland cases, and this goes for the entire world of blogging, the person or people creating the content are somewhat invisible. Not here. In Wasserman’s case, the blog has become a central part of the web experience and not an appendage. If I had a nock, I’d ask for more post frequency. But, at leaset I am not inundated.

Want more Agencies Of The Week? They are here.

Fantastic Design Reading List Fr: Olli Siebelt

Peter · April 2, 2013 · Leave a Comment

From Olli Siebelt… integrated digital production… Don’t miss *

  • THE ALPINE REVIEW
  • BERG
  • THE BRANDER
  • CONTENTS MAGAZINE
  • EMBLEMETRIC *
  • MEDIUM
  • PANDO
  • PSFK
  • SPRINGWISE
  • THINGS MAGAZINE
  • UNIVERSAL EVERYTHING
  • AIAIAI
  • BLDGBLOG
  • COLLATE *
  • DARKROOM
  • LA COFFEE CLUB
  • MONOCLE
  • THE PARIS REVIEW
  • QUARTZ
  • SVBTLE
  • TWITCH
  • UX MAG

Summly, Nick D’Aloisio, Bloomberg, Charlie Rose and Yahoo! (And Advertising)

Peter · March 31, 2013 · Leave a Comment

The press take on Nick D’Aloisio and his sale of the news app Summly to Yahoo! for a reported $30,000,000 made big news because he is 17. He has much more going for him than just his age.

Watch this really inspiring interview with Nick on Charlie Rose. One of Nick’s main points is that he built Summly, which has been pulled off the iTunes store while its moved into Yahoo! land, as a tool to summerize the news (and soon more) for the small screen. Nick zeroed in on the insight that people under 25 are mobile-phone centric. They use their phones as their first screen, not the second and he built Summly for his kinsmen.  The idea of phone-as-first-screen is a wonderful disrupter.

And, yes, there is more Nick… Here he is on Bloomberg. This interview is a bit more entertainment oriented.

While you are here, go here to see what I do.

How Advertising Agencies Can Grow Their Twitter Followers

Peter · March 22, 2013 · Leave a Comment

Man, agencies like to be followed. Followed by potential clients, future gifted employees, the trade press, ad bloggers and on Twitter.

How to grow on Twitter followers? Here is a link to an academic study on Twitter usage and popularity from The Georgia Institute of Technology. You will need some spare time for this or just scroll down for the chart.

So, what works?…

  1. Network overlap. People follow tweets that their friends follow.
  2. High re-tweet ratio. People love what others love and recommend. Why not ask for the RT?
  3. Activity as in Tweets per hour. Reasonable Tweets per hour that is. I have some friends that are way too prolific.
  4. Audience relevance. Lots of pics of your agency dogs might not cut it.

What dosen’t work?

  1. Negative sentiment.
  2. Overdoing irrelevance. Those pesky dogs again.
  3. Interestingly, the over use of hash-tags. No argument here.

Here is the handy chart:

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I’ve been building social media traffic since 1995 (when I put newspapers online) — Lets talk about how to build an active social media (I mean strategic social media) program for your agency.

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