Comments on: TRUTH, LIES, AND ADVERTISING

By: Jack

Jack — Sun, 06 Sep 2009 16:16:07 +0000

My Dad who was born in 1905, was emphatic about the truth. He said he liked to go to sleep at night. It was from him that I learned, “Tell the truth and you never have to remember what you said.” I try really hard to life by that. It works. And it is why you can always tell who is inventing stuff and who is not. Thank you.

By: edward boches

edward boches — Fri, 04 Sep 2009 23:36:52 +0000

Ooops, previous post of comment has typos: Here you go.

My mentor, partner and boss Jim Mullen taught me three things. 1. people start reading when they’re interested and stop when they lose interest. sometimes what they’re interested in is an ad (I’ll add to that a blog post). Lesson, be interesting. 2. Tell the truth, you’ll never have to remember what you did or didn’t tell anyone. 3. Buy waterfront property. They’re not making any more of it. My problem is that I only listened to the first two. Your post lives up to 1, reinforces 2, and has nothing to do with 3. But 67 percent good/right/whatever is a decent accomplishment. Now I just have to convince my wife that you are right.

By: edward boches

edward boches — Fri, 04 Sep 2009 23:34:59 +0000

My mentor, partner and boss Jim Mullen taught me three things. 1. people start reading when they’re interested and stop when they lost interest. sometimes what they’re interested in is an ad (I’ll add to that a blog post). Lesson, be interesting. 2. Tell the truth, you’ll never have to remember what you did or didn’t tell anyone. 3. But waterfront property. They’re not making any more of it. My problem is that I only listened to the first two. Your post lives up to 1, reinforces 2, and has nothing to do with three. But 67 percent good/right/whatever is a decent accomplishment. Now I just have to convince my wife that you are right.

By: Dave Trott

Dave Trott — Tue, 01 Sep 2009 10:37:30 +0000

Still in Umbria John.
There’s only one bar that has internet access so I have to have a cold beer or two whe I’m there.
Well. rude mot to.

By: John o'Driscoll

John o'Driscoll — Mon, 31 Aug 2009 17:16:05 +0000

‘cleese and the hundred grand offer.’

must be benton and bowles.

they did have the account after BBDO, and made a bollocks of it.

then it went to BMP. right?

hundred and fifty still sounds a bit high though. if he got it no wonder his latest missus cained him for so much when they got divorced.

hope hols were good.

odee

By: robin

robin — Sun, 30 Aug 2009 00:29:59 +0000

Dave,
Your piece of new media was brilliant.
Amazing how many ECDs who have little or no digital work now insist on it in other people’s books/reels.
Like you said, it’s just a tool.
Reminds me a bit of a famous photographer.
He had bought a fish eye lens for a job.
Thereafter, every shoot, he tried to convince agency/clients to use the lens.
Not only that - he would charge extra for shots with the fish eye lens.
Hope you enjoying your hols.

By: dave

dave — Thu, 27 Aug 2009 11:16:40 +0000

Hi Sunitha,
Yup I’m reading it outside a bar with WiFi connection in the Umbrian mountains.
It’s 42 degrees and so it would be rude not have a cold beer while using their internet.
My kids are here with us (they’re 23 and 25 now) and they always check my blogs before I post them (especially if they’re in them).

By: dave

dave — Thu, 27 Aug 2009 11:02:59 +0000

John O’D,
Yup, I know Tim did the original radio stuff.
As I understand it, this was the agency that got the account afterwards (was it Ogilvy, Benton & Bowles, Burnett, somewhere like that) and they wanted to use him on telly.
Anyway that’s the way I heard it.

By: john

john — Thu, 27 Aug 2009 08:30:29 +0000

Dave,

Your Private View in today’s Campaign is the best i’ve ever read. I’ve instructed the entire creative department to read it (although i’m only a junior copywriter, so they probably won’t listen to me).

Inspirational. Thank you.

By: Sunitha

Sunitha — Wed, 26 Aug 2009 10:40:49 +0000

Hi Dave. A big thank you for all that you write on your blog. While I work in advertising, I read your blog for all your thoughts and ideas on parenting, mentoring and coaching.
This blog really reflects what I think too. I let my daughter smoke her first cigarette at 16 yrs of age. In fact I bought the cigarette and lit it for her ! And this in a so called conservative society in India.
Often as parents, we are guilty of missing the wood for the trees and lose out on the beauty of our children.
Hope you are reading this comment while on your holiday !