by Freddy J. Nager, Founder of Atomic Tango LLC + IMC Instructor + Occasional Burger Customer So I’m reading IMC The Next Generation by Professor Don E. Schultz, the father of integrated marketing communications. This seminal book offers up brilliant approaches to marketing management (such as value-based customer segmentation and goals-based budgeting) with a large [...]
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by Freddy J. Nager, Founder of Atomic Tango LLC + Business Lit Taste Tester A friend recently gave me Seth Godin’s book Meatball Sundae, and I found that it lives up to its name: it’s a big mess. I won’t provide a full review of a four-year-old book here, but I have to refer to [...]
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"Common sense is the little man in a gray suit who never makes a mistake at addition, but it's always someone else's money he's adding up."
- Raymond Chandler
Let's hear it for uncommon sense: that inner itch that inspires you to stray from the herd, ditch the training wheels and leap into the fast lane. As we all know, it's the risk takers who get their faces on the cover of Wired magazine and their words on National Public Radio. No one ever remembers who won "honorable mention"...
Cool Rules Pronto celebrates uncommon sense in marketing and media. It's written by Freddy J. Nager, the Founder of the L.A.-based creative strategy agency Atomic Tango LLC, and marketing instructor at UCLA Extension and Robert Kennedy College of Zurich, Switzerland.
