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FOR ART'S SAKE
On Thursday, June 21st, the Atlanta Ad Club will hold our fourth annual FOR ART’S SAKE, a silent auction fundraiser and industry networking event. The proceeds of the evening will benefit our Educational Trust Fund. The Atlanta Ad Club’s Educational Trust Fund promotes a higher degree of professionalism in our collective industries. The Atlanta Ad Club funds our community's future through scholarships, financial assistance, and internship sponsorships for students pursuing a degree in advertising, marketing, communications, and design.
We have a terrific evening planned at Gordon Biersch (in Midtown). Catch up with your colleagues and peers, enjoy food & drink, and bid on some wonderful artwork created by people just like you – or you! We hope you will join us.
Gordon Biersch
848 Peachtree Street, NE
Atlanta, GA
Thursday, Jun 21, 2007
06:00 PM - 09:00 PM
Members $20
Non-Members $25
Donating Artists FREE
Walk-Ins (those not registered prior to June 19th) $35
To register click here
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MEMBERSHIP RENEWAL
Want to keep receiving the great benefits of an Atlanta Ad Club membership? Take advantage of the Ad Club’s current discounts! If you renew by July 1, you’ll receive 15 percent off your dues. Flexible Corporate Membership renewals are just $900.
To renew your membership click here
Promo Code:
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WHAT’D I MISS?
May 22 – The crowd packed in at 103 West to honor this year’s Atlanta Ad Club award recipients. Patrick Scullin, Ames Scullin O’Haire (
www.asoy.com), was presented with the Silver Medal award and Dameon Pope, Matlock Advertising & PR (www.matlock-adpr.com
), was honored with this year’s Young Professional award.
The Ad Club also presented three outstanding advertising students with scholarships to aid them as they continue their studies. The recipients were: Matthew Wyne, Tanya Frank and Justin Bajan.
The audience was also treated to a memorable program with Trumpet (www.trumpetadvertising.com
), based in New Orleans. Malcolm Schwarzeneach and Robbie Vitrano detailed the agency’s experience with Hurricane Katrina and its aftermath. From making sure that all their employees were safe to getting the business up and running again, Trumpet described how their business has changed in the two years since the storm.
Their passion and dedication to their business and the New Orleans community was an inspiration to all who attended.
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UPCOMING EVENTS
Creativity SIG FIRST DRAFT
includes copywriters, designers and web wizards hanging out Park Tavern in Midtown. With each meeting, our group continues to grow so come out to meet, mingle and moan with the other creative stars in Atlanta!
No need to register – join us on July 5, 2007 from 6-8 p.m. and the first Thursday of every month!
Come hear John Vitro of VitroRobertson share his insights on the advertising world.
Tuesday, July 10, 2007
11:30 a.m. – 1:30 p.m.
Food 101
1397 North Highland Ave
Atlanta, GA
Registered prior to July 8th
$35 Members
$50 Non-Members
Tables of Eight: Members $325, Corporate Members $300, Non-members $350
Walk-Ins (not registered prior to July 8th)-
Members $45
Non-members $60
Tables of Eight: Members $350, Corporate Members $325, Non-members $375
Agency Open House at Blattner Brunner. Come grab a few drinks, talk shop and tour Blattner Brunner.
Tuesday, July 17, 2007
6-8 p.m.
Blattner Brunner
260 Peachtree Suite
Suite 1100
Pre-Registered by July 15th -
Members $5
Non-Members $15
Walk-In Rate (after July 15th, registered or at the door) -
Members $10
Non-Members $20
Production SIG Happy Hour: Come catch-up with your fellow production colleagues and grab a drink – the first one’s on us!
You can still show up and register at the door!
July 18, 2007
6-8 p.m.
Front Page News, Midtown
Members FREE
Non-Members $5
For more information and to register
click here.
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MEMBER NEWS
The Second Annual JWT Technology (
www.jwttech.com/) / Inc. magazine “Chocolate Rabbit Roast” was held on April 5, 2007. This event is an annual Easter/Passover celebration toasting the success of two great brands working together to ensure client “sweetisfaction.”
DENMARK {the agency} (
www.denmarktheagency.com), received two Healthcare Advertising Awards, a gold and a silver, from the Healthcare Marketing Report, which gives awards for newspaper, radio, video and Web ads. Priscilla Jessup, president and CEO of DENMARK {the agency} was recently presented with a Small Business Award from The Edge Connection, an entrepreneurial training program.
Atlanta-based TG Madison Advertising (www.tgmadison.com) has hired two new senior account executives, Anna Webb and Taylor Chafin. Webb will focus on the agency’s Alzheimer’s Association account and new business prospects. Chafin will work with the agency’s Marriott and Renaissance Caribbean & Mexico Resorts and YouDecide accounts.
Creative Presence Partners (www.creativepresencepartners.com) received a Gold Award in Event Marketer Magazine’s 2007 EX Awards in the category of Best Production of an Event (Consumer). CPP was selected for its work on the 2006 MY COKE FEST produced during the Men’s Final Four in Indianapolis.
redpepper (www.redpepperinc.com), a full-service marketing, advertising, and public relations firm, has expanded its repertoire with the addition of Abby Headrick in the public relations department.
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Thom Gonyeau
2006–2007
Atlanta Ad Club President
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AD RANT
Ad Clubs Matter
Can it be it’s been a year already? I’m fortunate to have led the Atlanta Ad Club. In reality, this is the second market where I’ve been president of an ad club and you can throw a creative club in there as well. Some people would prefer hemorrhoids than endure this sentence, but I see it differently.
At worst, I am an ad club junkie, craving it like a crack rock. At the very least, I am a cheerleader and staunch supporter of the concept. It’s not because it has gotten my company lots of work. In fact, it’s brought me zero dinero. (By the way, it’s not that I would mind if y’all wanted to toss me some business. I promise to do a good job for you. But I digress…)
I believe in affiliation. In our highly evolved lives, I think it is too easy to care only about what’s sitting in front of you at the moment. Ad people are some of the most interesting, clever, articulate people I’ve met. I like hanging around them. I love learning from them. And I really admire what they can do inside a quarter-page ad, radio jingle, TV frame, or over the highway. I mean, these are people that SHOULD have an association (no disrespect to the Rainbow Unicorn Lovers or other such groups).
From my perspective, if we hole ourselves up inside our shops, we miss the chance to be part of something bigger – something that will improve our work, improve our communities, and just may improve our spirit. Despite all the naysayers who worry that involvement will lead to their business being stolen, I’d like to suggest that a vibrant Atlanta advertising community will stimulate your bottom line. And if you’re worried about your clients being stolen, make yourself irreplaceable to your clients.
I am perplexed in a market as big as ours, with more than 40 legitimate agencies, that we sometimes struggle to drum up enthusiasm for the advertising collective. I struggle to understand it, but I know in my gut that good things can come of it. I want to be a part of it and I challenge you to get involved and support YOUR Atlanta Ad Club.
On a personal note, I have truly been honored to be the Atlanta Ad Club president and I hope I have served you well enough. I could not have done it without an energized board of directors and a hard-working executive director team. Thanks. |
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