Archive for January, 2011

Stop Me If You’ve Already Heard This Joke, Quip, Jest, Drollery

The Atlantic‘s blog recently ran a post on the genesis of a joke that’s making the rounds in a big way. We may be behind the curve on this one, but this joke hits so close to our hearts that we just have to help viral-ize it: Twitter’s Best Joke: An SEO Copywriter Walks Into a [...]

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Bring Local Flavor to Your Marketing Campaigns With Transcreation

How do you ensure that your campaign maintains the impact of the original without having to launch new creative in each market? This is where marketing “transcreation” comes into play. Transcreation is a freer form of translation, closer to copywriting. The result is a text that’s linguistically and culturally adapted for specific countries and/or regions, be it for Latin America, Africa, Europe or even local U.S. Hispanic markets.

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Happy 10th Anniversary to the Content Bureau!

Happy New Year to all, and Happy Birthday to the Content Bureau–our baby copywriting agency “all growed up.” Ten years ago, we were a tiny operation serving our first large tech client, PeopleSoft, and an assortment of small companies who loved our work—and kindly referred us to their friends. Here’s what a few of our early [...]

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