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The perfect project (doesn’t exist)

What is a project and which are the different approaches to manage a project effectively? And what are the main pillars of the Agile Project Management approach? Managing a project using an agile approach requires the adoption of an agile mindset by the whole team. One of the key aspects of the Agile approach is that of servant leadership as a key resource to empower teams.

Martina Uggeri
Project Manager Italy & UAE

Pitch perfect – How to bring your creative pitch to the next level

Creative pitches are the craziest and most surrealistic moment of a creative agency’s life. Iconically associated with the advertising industry, they define and sum up how crazy and unpredictable our job can be. But how can you prepare for a creative pitch effectively and bring the pitch experience to the next level?

Giulio Nadotti
The Ad Store Italia

Brands, Subcultures & Social Activism

Subcultures are increasingly influencing Brands. Brands are drawing new inspiration from subcultures and learning from them how to start new dialogs about particularly important topics, such as social activism. Why is this change so important and where does it stem from?

Luca Eremo
The Ad Store Italia

THE M-FACTOR: THE RELEVANCE OF MUSIC IN ADVERTISING

Year 1880. Music and advertising meet for the first time. The product? The first funicular railway on Mount Vesuvius, in Naples, Italy. The song? “Funiculì Funiculà”, a musical invitation to step aboard and try such an innovative means of transportation.

Antonella De Gironimo
Copywriter @ The Ad Store Italia

Covid-19: the new rules

In times like these, the temptation is to try to provide inspiration. I believe nobody can claim to have any or all of the answers for anything right now. That’s quite a mouthful for someone that does not believe in absolutes. What has happened around the world in the past month or so is only unbelievable if you believed in the infallibility of mankind. So let’s begin with the acknowledgement that nobody is an “expert” at anything. Let’s start anew in humility.

Mike Palma
Helping Creative Careers, Agencies & Brands Grow @ mikepalma.wordpress.com

Fashion Email Marketing in the Age of the “New Normal”

Stores closed with stocks hanging on the racks, operations and deliveries hindered, new launches and new shootings canceled or frozen due to travelling bans. There’s no doubt that fashion is one of the industries that has been most heavily impacted by the Covid-19 outbreak.

Cristiano Sturniolo
Founder & Senior Advisor @ The Hitch Lab

THe AD STORE DUBAI OBSERVATORY

A monthly briefing created by the Ad Store Dubai team. Get an insight into Expo 2020 Dubai and the UAE with our selection of news and hot topics. Discover more

Covid-19 Communications Best Practices

With the aim of supporting our clients navigate the Covid-19 crisis and steer their communication efforts in the right direction, we analyzed how brands dealt with the Coronavirus emergency and lockdowns.

Giulio Nadotti
The Ad Store Italia

6 Design Trends for 2020

If 2020 marks the beginning of a new decade, the year 2019 already showed some signs of innovation that will get momentum in the year to come. So, what comes next? In my job I constantly monitor and visit blogs, magazines and websites from different domains and can’t help noticing and spotting current and new styles and trends.

Matthias Kroeger
The Ad Store Germany

The Fashion Industry – Trends & Insights

In an industry made of countless brands of all ages and positionings, the ones that are to survive and thrive will have to be able to correctly interpret and act upon the changes that are revolutionizing not only the fashion industry, but society and business at large. In this article I will try and outline the most relevant changes and trends that fashion brands are experiencing at the moment.

Luca Eremo
The Ad Store Italia

Can we train our creative muscles?

Ever wonder what the most desirable quality is in future leaders? According to a survey conducted by the World Economic Forum, the answer is creativity, described as "The ability to come up with unusual or clever ideas about a given topic or situation, or to develop creative ways to solve a problem.

Daniela Pavan
The Ad Store New York

Five Pillars To Designing A Successful Growth Strategy For Your Agency

Becoming a million-dollar-revenue agency is a dream that many of us want to achieve. It would mean that all your efforts put you on the right track for success and that more doors can soon open to your business.

Daniela Pavan
The Ad Store New York

International Marketing Communications – Challenges and Solutions

When you need to manage international marketing and communication projects to export your brand or product to new countries, it’s useful to take a thorough, humble and well-structured approach to the task, keeping some relevant key aspects in mind and following two golden rules: don’t take anything for granted and rely on the know-how of experienced professionals. Because – it should go without saying – addressing users from different markets is far more complex and riskier than trying to engage an audience you know like the back of your hand.

Angela Melegari
The Ad Store

Powerpoint & takeaway food, the art of presentation design

In our profession, presentations are the core of our work and the way we present, visually, verbally and physically, is key to our job. A presentation is our face, the frontline of what we’re selling, no matter if it’s a budget, a brand strategy, creative stuff or a social media editorial plan. Even the tiniest and least important project deserves to be presented properly.

Giulio Nadotti
The Ad Store Italia

Intelligent Advertising & Storytelling

Marketing is changing. And the approach that we’ve commonly used no longer keeps up with this shift. In the old days, our marketing mix was ruled by Jerome McCarthy’s 4 Ps: Product, Price, Place, Promotion. Now we need to focus on the human side and rather follow another model that we believe to be more consumer-centric - the 4Cs developed by Robert Lauterborn: Consumer, Cost, Convenience and Communication. These should be the bases of every marketing strategy. But what differs between the two?

André Arrátel Torrão
The Ad Store Portugal

Art & Creativity

In my over 15 years of experience as an award winning painter and Creative Director, during which I’ve had the chance to cooperate and come in contact with outstanding creatives and artists – The Ad Store’s founder Paul Cappelli, creative founding partner of TBWA\Hunt\Lascaris John Hunt, Kenian artist Cyrus Kabiru and Moyo Okedigi, Professor at the University of Texas, USA – I have juggled between galleries and ad agencies, and I see a very strong correlation between art and creativity.

Chipika Simanwe
The Ad Store Zambia

Retail Renaissance

A new playbook for the retail & fashion industry to deal with undisciplined consumers. Business leaders are frequently quoting that “the only certainty is change”. They couldn’t be righter but yet so many companies lack the necessary set of attitudinal and behavioral competences that can truly drive change.

Data scientist, marketer and researcher for ISCTE - Instituto Universitário de Lisboa

In The Era Of Individuality, How Can Brands Create Successful Relationships With Their Consumers?

We live in a crazy busy world, overwhelmed every day with pieces of information coming from many sources. We are all online almost 24/7, checking our social media profiles or posting selfies. Computers, mobile phones, tablets -- it doesn't matter the device, we want to be able to have access to whatever we want anywhere, at any time.

Daniela Pavan
The Ad Store New York

THE BENEFITS OF SOCIAL MEDIA LISTENING

How important is it to listen to your target in developing a communication project? We believe that listening is of the utmost importance - the foundation of any creative strategy and project. Read this article and discover a list of the main Social Media Listening tools, why you should use them and to what advantage.

Mustafa Hussein
The Ad Store Egypt

The perfect project management recipe

The right mix of planning, monitoring, and controlling can make the difference in completing a project on time, on budget, and with high quality results.

Mwanza Mpepo
The Ad Store Zambia

CREATIVITY AROUND THE CORNER

Art is all around us but that’s not to say it’s not difficult. Creativity is volatile and unpredictable at times. Often, right at the peak of inspiration, the mind wanders and is bogged down by distractions. Innovation and creation aren’t natural occurrences but the products of thorough cognitive processes that create, update, and transform ideas.

Nader Khalil
The Ad Store Egypt

SEO COPYWRITING: WORDS THAT CONVERT

What is SEO copywriting? How much can it impact on generating traffic to a website, blog, landing page? How can you reach the highest rank in search engines? If you ever asked yourself these questions before reading this article, it means that my SEO copy strategy is working.

Antonella de Gironimo
The Ad Store Italia

Healthcare Digital Revolution

Today, the relations between a brand operating in the pharmaceutical industry and its users are no longer as smooth and streamlined as in the past. It has become multi-faceted. Both doctors and patients have many communication channels to do exhaustive research and get tons of complex information.