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Honesty New Lead Agency for Stena Metall and Halebop!

June 1, 2010

It’s been an amazing past couple of weeks! Apart from the clients we already work with, we have now won not one, but two major long running pitches and are now the strategic lead agency for both Stena Metall and Halebop.Stena Metall is a big and extremely competent recycling company. In a world full of [...]

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What Bill Clinton And Tiger Woods Could Learn From Amazing Ursula

February 12, 2010

“I did not have sex with that woman… miss Lewinsky” is not a good strategy. Why? Because it’s untrue. If you think back at the Clinton/Lewinsky-affair, the big issue wasn’t really that Bill was unfaithful, but rather that he kept lying himself into a corner. Tiger Woods did the same thing. In Sweden we have [...]

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How About Some Spice With That Fun Theory?

December 10, 2009

This isn’t brand new by any standards, but it reminds me (and perhaps you) that sometimes, bad ass is just… bad ass. The Subaru also seems to carry a bit more fun & punch than those german Volkmobiles, wouldn’t you say? Thanks to Juha for sharing. Similar Posts: I Never Want To Be Anything But [...]

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Will Speak For Money (and Occasionally for Love)

September 29, 2009

The way I see it, public speaking is not about conveying information – books and Google do that much better than I ever can. Instead, I set out to inspire. If I can, on a good day, inspire you out there to take even one action in a powerful direction, things can start to snowball in [...]

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How To Apply for Work at Honesty

September 28, 2009

In these times of economic downturn and agencies firing people left and right, perhaps a couple of ideas for job applications could be in order: I see a lot of people applying for work with us by sending an email with a CV and a personal letter. Most of the time these are people that [...]

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Case: Elgiganten Stole My Girlfriend’s Computer And Wanted Her To Pay For It (True Story!)

September 24, 2009

Here comes a short story on how not to answer customer complaints, a story that I’ve had the benefit to study closely over the past couple of months. Long story short, my wonderful girlfriend got what we in Sweden call “värdelös service” (worthless service in English) from Elgiganten, a chain of stores selling consumer electronics. [...]

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Selling Sears (or Åhléns) With Porn – a Thought Experiment

September 16, 2009

With traditional tag-along advertising, we force our way into peoples homes, or rather, we sneek our way in by way of real value. This has provided us with good reach by simply paying our way in, but it also has its disadvantages – we have to behave like the uninvited guests that we are. I [...]

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Lowe Brindfors Copy the Forsman & Bodenfors SEO Mistakes

September 15, 2009

Last week I wrote about how Forsman & Bodenfors don’t understand how the internet works. In absolute terms, the description was fair, but in relative terms, they are not worse than most of the advertising business. Yesterday we got another painfull piece of evidence to that effect. I’m talking about the brand new website of [...]

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Is Spotify the Darth Vader of Music?

September 8, 2009

As Spotify launched their iPhone app, the crowd cheered. The talented SEO-expert (and comedian) Simon Sundén publishes the follwing graph of Spotify Premium sales that went viral amongst us nerds. Half us us thought is was true, and who knows, it may be. But even if this graphic joke isn’t true, it illustrates something quiet [...]

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The Hang Glider Theory – How to Survive Disgusting Domino’s Pizza Clips and More.

September 7, 2009

I love to theorize about social behavior and how it relates to our behavior on the internet. But sometimes I get the urge to be just a little more practical about things. How can we actually use all this theory? Before we dig into what I call The Hang Glider Theory, let’s gossip a little. [...]

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