Marketing

Honesty Part 2 – The Story of Starting an Advertising Agency

December 23, 2010

So I finally got my first day off from work in what feels like a lifetime. It also feels like a blink of an eye. So amazingly much has happened this year, and at the same time, I have never had a year pass this quickly on me before. I’m sitting here at one of [...]

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True Story: We Survived an Emergency Landing and Went by Ambulance Plane to The Pitch

August 25, 2010

How the hell can you end up in a seduction lecture, an emergency landing, a fire truck and an ambulance plane, all on the way to a client presentation? And can you still pull off the presentation? It sounds incredible, but this is that story: A few months ago one of our biggest clients asked [...]

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The Google Man at Marketing Week London

June 30, 2010

Man that was tough. I’ve been lucky to have been scheduled in the first slot of the day at most talks I’ve done so far, but today I got the very last slot. And it was crazy hot in Olympia’s Pillar Hall in London where my Marketing Week talk was scheduled. Some talks are easier [...]

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Walter Naeslund Speaking at Marketing Week Live in London

June 21, 2010

Super happy to announce that I will be speaking at Marketing Week Live at Grand Hall Olympia in London next week June 29. Amazing gig that I’m really looking forward to. For some reason I’ve never had a chance to speak in England. I hope we have the same sense of humor. The topic of [...]

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How To Cheat Your Client and Why You Shouldn’t

May 5, 2010

Every gold rush has it’s opportunists. The gold rush of viral marketing is no exception. Before we leave the gold rush phase and move into a more mature market, agencies will keep running around waving YouTube views in the faces of marketing managers to show off how creative they are. But are they really? There [...]

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