Mistakes Clients Make: Part 4
We’re back with another installment of our “Mistakes Clients Make” blog. Here’s a quick rundown of the previous blogs you may have missed: Thinking Everyone is your Target Audience Thinking There is Plenty of Time Before the Deadline Thinking Change Happens Overnight The next blog might sound a little out there, a little off the […]
Mistakes Clients Make: Part 3
Previously, on the 5ivecanons “Mistakes Clients Make” blog… We’ve discussed “Thinking Everyone is your Target Audience” in Part 1, and “Thinking There is Plenty of Time Before the Deadline” in Part 2. This week for Part 3 we’ll be discussing… (drumroll, please…) “Thinking Change Happens Overnight.” Now, I know what you’re thinking. “Don’t be absurd, […]
7 Reasons We Made It 7 Years
This week, we celebrate our 7th year in business as a Jacksonville creative agency. And despite all the cliche lines you can think of that a company would use in it’s anniversary blog, I’m going to give you 7 you never thought of. These are the reasons we are still here today: 1. We fight […]
Mistakes we see clients make: Part 2
In our last agency blog, we talked about thinking everyone is your target audience. For our next round of client mistakes, we want to bring up something that’s a little harder to pin down — “Thinking There is Plenty of Time Before the Deadline”. The reason this is harder to discuss is because time is […]
Mistakes we see clients make: Part 1
As a full-service agency, we see our fair share of clients ranging from startups to fortune 100 companies. We see the good, the bad, and the ugly; companies ranging from fantastic clients to ones that don’t even pay. So, we decided to release a blog with a few trade secrets: mistakes clients make. We see it […]
Special Guest Author Series: Buzzwords are for Buzztards
By Guest Author Larry Peters, World Traveler, Genius, Lover, Hater, and All-around Hustler I want everyone – worldwide – to join hands in some good old fashioned hate. For whom, you may ask? For anyone who uses the word “synergy.” I hate you. I don’t even know you and I hate your guts. And you […]
7 Ways to Get Out of a Creative Rut (with pictures)
T-minus 2 hours until your presentation. You’re in your groove — it’s your time to shine. You’re the idea guy (or girl). Your boss is counting on you, the client is counting on you, hell… the whole office is counting on you. And what have you got? Nothing. Nada. Zip. And all of a sudden your sweet […]
There’s no “NARCISSISTIC, POMPOUS DIMWIT” in “TEAM.”
Related: There’s no “WE” in “MY LUNCH”, either. I’m sure you’ve heard about teamwork your whole life. Blather, blather, blather — ‘we all win together if we all work together, there’s no “I” in team’… yet we constantly celebrate individual achievement like there’s no tomorrow. But despite that, people describe themselves in nearly every resume […]
Rise of The Machines: No job is safe
We’ve heard this phrase many times before in movies, the media, and pretty much any reference to the future. Robots are slowly taking over jobs all around the country. Most people feel that it’s only affecting low-income jobs for people with low-level education; although this seems to be most evident, I don’t think that’s the case. […]
Fake News: Are you buying what they’re selling?
We’ve all heard a lot about ‘Fake News’ and ‘Alternative Facts’ lately. We won’t bore you with the details, everyone knows what it means. So why is an advertising agency in Jacksonville writing about it? What does it mean for you? The answer is, most Fake News has one end goal in mind: profits. And […]
