2025 has been a year of contrasts—intense, emotional, transformative. It began with a heartfelt farewell and ends with my soul wide open after the magical, peaceful family moments we usually share in Escondida. In between, there was laughter under a sky full of fireflies outside Kuala Lumpur with my grandson Mauricio; a spiritual retreat in […]
In this third entry regarding our advertising industry in Costa Rica, I bring to your screen a first and very simple proposal: let’s celebrate all the differences and since it is better to do it in a single forum, let’s coincide in [...]
At Incae I was taught a definition of strategy that I love. Strategy is about choices, about sacrificial decisions and about deliberately choosing to be different, as proposed by Michael Porter. Strategy is also about knowing clearly when to say no. Success [...]
In the twenty-something years of Tribu (formerly Consumer Publicidad), we didn’t always celebrate like we do now. We all know it and yet, we easily forget it. When we lost in a Pregonero or a Volcán, when we thought we were going [...]
Since ASCAP achieved the representation of the most important creative advertising festival in the world, the country has connected, competes and wins among the best of the planet. Advanced advertising agencies, in a stimulus to their creative talent, have achieved finalists, as [...]
Any professional working with a consumer brand should go to Cannes Lions. The reasons are more than a hundred, but here I copy and paste 10 excellent arguments for an advertiser client to decide to go. Tue 5 Apr 2011 10 reasons [...]
If it were not for La Nación, the past Volcán Festival would have gone completely unnoticed in the mass media. Neither Teletica Canal 7, nor Repretel, I never see it, nor Summa or Monumental, nor La República or La Extra have even [...]
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With really good prizes, La Via Costarricense has launched a new opportunity to participate in the design of La Costa Rica que Querés. I invite you to participate!
Brands that discover their higher purpose are those that transcend and make a big difference. From those that ignite innovation to those that celebrate victory, from those that fill the world with happiness to those that propose life as a journey. With [...]
Last night I was entertained for a while with Animoto, the photos of the meeting we had in August with young professionals in Santa Ana and good music in the background. Great therapy to keep the focus on what has us in [...]
“Carpe Diem“, “Oh Captain, my Captain!”, “I don’t want a product of the environment, I want the environment to be a product of me”, “what you do in life, echoes in enternity” and so much more that comes from…. the movies! Influence [...]
A different way In Costa Rica, it’s even scary to propose! The fable of the pots of lobsters in boiling water could not be truer. While the German or gringas would all be saved, in a collective effort to get out alive, [...]
