PETER SHANKMAN

There’s a HARO advertiser coming up tonight that in my opinion, is just doing something brilliant. Check out Go Miniman, Go! A brilliant use of film, animation, and brand to bring us all back to something we remember. And I’m totally stuck on the song now, and want a copy to run with. Well done to all. And I really mean that. This has NOTHING to do with them being a HARO advertiser. It’s a brilliant campaign.

Apparently, Facebook has not lifted the 5,000 friend cap, despite articles to the contrary. Damn it! Well… I guess… Just hang out until they do? It’s not that I don’t want to be friends with you. And before y’all start with the definition of a “friend,” or “why would anyone want 5,000 friends,” etc., know that I consider everyone I meet on the same initial scale – I’m an optimist – perhaps the last optimist about humans as a whole – I assume people are good until they prove otherwise. What’s that great line from MIB? “A person is smart. People are idiots.” I believe in persons. In other words, add me as a friend, and if I can help [...]

Gotta tell ya… I’m getting pretty tired of hearing that. Was having a conversation the other day with someone via IM. She asked me where I was, and I told her I was talking from the lobby of the W hotel in Times Square, waiting to have a drink with someone who runs a marketing firm. “The W Hotel?! What a tough life! Will you please do some work?!” she IM’d back. It was around 3pm. She didn’t know I’d closed two deals, brought three new advertisers to HARO, and gotten one client onto CNN. Not bad for someone who, according to my friend, had to be nagged to “do some work.” It’s not the first time I’ve heard that [...]

You know you want one… Model: Amanda Forbes, Account Exec at Fry, Hammond, Barr

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