Comments for Barrett's Book

Comment on If you’re going to make bad advertising, why not make it REALLY bad? by Barrett Rossie

Barrett Rossie — Tue, 10 Nov 2009 00:12:16 +0000

Note: I was recently in Washington DC. The same goofy poster was in the bank there. So BofA is coast-to-coast with this silliness.

Comment on Piedmont Airlines by Ray Munroe

Ray Munroe — Mon, 09 Nov 2009 23:33:40 +0000

I heard your voice on an Enterprise commercial. I remeber it from when I worked at Clare Burt Studios in Toronto in 1975. Some voices you don’t forget.

Ray Munroe

Comment on alphainventions.com by Barrett Rossie

Barrett Rossie — Mon, 19 Oct 2009 23:56:39 +0000

I’ve looked at Cheru’s site (www.alphainventions.com) about 20 times now and I’m still a little fuzzy on how it works. But I do get a lot of traffic from it. Not sure it’s all “qualified” traffic — but interesting just the same.

Comment on If you’re going to make bad advertising, why not make it REALLY bad? by Barrett Rossie

Barrett Rossie — Fri, 09 Oct 2009 00:46:30 +0000

And I just heard a nasty story about Amex. Seems they are not giving you ANY grace period for a simple late payment. Which really kind of negates the benefits of my Delta Sky Miles Amex card…

Comment on If you’re going to make bad advertising, why not make it REALLY bad? by deannacamp

deannacamp — Fri, 09 Oct 2009 00:35:00 +0000

“At BOA, it’s ok if you’re one day late on card payment–
We get rich on bumping you up to 30% apr and a $35 late fee.

Isn’t collusion illegal? ALL these banks are doing this. Time to reduce my corporate footprint…Dee

Comment on Piedmont Airlines by Barrett Rossie

Barrett Rossie — Tue, 15 Sep 2009 18:27:09 +0000

We’ll have to get Ms Morehead to translate…

Comment on Piedmont Airlines by Mirjana Martic

Mirjana Martic — Tue, 15 Sep 2009 13:59:51 +0000

zdravo draga drugarice!
daj mi se javi da znam da sam dobro spojila Chapel Hill, Damjanovski, art i Gina Morehead!!!!
Ja zivim u Montrealu vec 15 godina.
Ljubac,
Mirjana Marjanovic, zvana Jenny, klupa iza tebe i Biljke (koja BTW zivi u Vankuveru)

Comment on Which Wieden+Kennedy do you prefer? by Barrett Rossie

Barrett Rossie — Wed, 02 Sep 2009 17:12:31 +0000

Ouch! You make great points Ryan. I’m sure W+K has done some great work for their clients on the web. I can’t really defend the current W+K company site, except to say it probably seemed a lot more relevant and impressive a couple years ago.

They have so much great content to share, but the site gets in the way of the sharing.

Comment on Which Wieden+Kennedy do you prefer? by Ryan

Ryan — Wed, 02 Sep 2009 16:32:30 +0000

Hey Barrett, I tend to agree with you. I think there is a certain aspect of cool to the main W+K website but I must say I am a big fan of practical usable websites. I would imagine when they put that website together they thought it would help brand them as a digital agency. What the site really does for me is make it look like they don’t understand the fundamental technologies of the Internet. A website like this tells me they’re more worried about their image than servicing their customers. If a company makes it this difficult for potential customers to use their website, imagine what it is like to work with them!

Comment on Which Wieden+Kennedy do you prefer? by Stuhrling

Stuhrling — Mon, 31 Aug 2009 01:54:04 +0000

Blog. Hands down. While visually I was wowed by the eye candy of the corp. site, I had a headache at the time and all the flash made it worse. Plus, you're right worn out it's welcome and I'm not really impressed by the huge client list either. I'll never get job there.

The blog is approachable, not full of itself and uses the f-word. Cool.;. All the best!!