Channel your passion. Just don’t necessarily listen to it.

Image via Wikipedia My fist hit the table this morning. I was feeling passionate. Really passionate about my work. It's an empowering thing – feeling so passionate about what you do that you're willing to sacrafice your hand. The one you use to write with, which is how you make…

Hey junior, wanna avoid producing #$2=@!. Or how to sell good work.

Image by Slightlynorth via Flickr Fact of life, junior creative: not every client is going to buy your great work. Some will just wear you down until what finally runs is just bad. Why? Politics, bad taste, stupidity, or just plain arrogance. And in a good economy, great agencies fire…

Time to stop pussy footing, creative folks.

Image by musha68000 via Flickr I'm a copywriter and also a social media guy. So a post by Jim Mitchem got me fired up last week. And it also got me thinking about the role that creative folks are playing in the social space right now. The reality is we're…