by Freddy J. Nager, Founder of Atomic Tango, LLC + Social Media Realist Lots of people sharing a Harvard Business Review blog about what it means to be professional in the social media era. It begins with a compelling example of how the Susan G. Komen Foundation bungled its recent image problems, while Planned Parenthood [...]
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by Freddy J. Nager, Founder & Fusion Director, Atomic Tango LLC “Sincerity is everything. If you can fake that, you’ve got it made.” — George Burns The movement du jour amongst us liberal marketers is “authenticity.” It’s the impassioned belief that companies should be open and honest about who they are and what they stand [...]
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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.
