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James Dowd

Creating Wild: How a Career Accelerator Transformed Talent

We’ve all had hard realizations that the marketing and advertising industry is broken in terms of finding, hiring, and training creative…

4 min readApr 18, 2023

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Creative talent exploration

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James Dowd

The Sorkin Cycle: How Brands Use Stories to Reach Audiences

To grow, brands need to speak to audiences, and to do that they need to communicate in human, authentic, relatable ways — not like cold…

7 min readNov 3, 2022

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Aaron Sorkin

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James Dowd

The Secret to Writing Better: Find Your Jimmy

Welcome! This here is Part 7 of a dumb series of dumb writing tips. In these rants, you’ll discover that whatever you need to write — for…

4 min readNov 3, 2022

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The Secret to Writing Better: Find Your Jimmy

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James Dowd

The Secret to Writing Better: Write Crazy

Welcome! This here is Part 6 of a dumb series of dumb writing tips. In these rants, you’ll discover that whatever you need to write — for…

12 min readNov 2, 2022

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Secrets to writing better

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James Dowd

The Old Boys Club: Why Agencies Continue to Lack Diversity

There’s no question that the marketing & advertising industries — and most others! — lack diversity and inclusion.

9 min readOct 31, 2022

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Ending the Old Boys Club

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James Dowd

Let’s Be Pirates: Why Rebellious Brands & Creative Minds Win

In 1942, Camp Toccoa, GA, companies entirely unlike yours were gathered. These were paratrooper companies of the 506th Parachute Infantry…

10 min readOct 31, 2022

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Disruptive brands

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James Dowd

What Makes a Good Creative Director?

“What makes a creative director a good creative director?”

9 min readOct 28, 2022

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Creative Director

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James Dowd

Combining Brand Archetypes: The Secret to Great Brands

If you’re here, it’s unlikely you’re new to brand archetypes, so I won’t bore you with a 101 on the subject. I won’t explain what brand…

6 min readOct 28, 2022

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Jungian archetypes for brands

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James Dowd

The Secret to Writing Better: Brand Taglines

Welcome to this dumb series of dumb writing tips. Whatever you need to write — for work or fun — follow these tips to think less and write…

9 min readOct 28, 2022

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How to write taglines for advertising

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James Dowd

The Secret to Writing Better: Taking a Dump

I hope you’re not starting with part 4. Seriously, who does that? Don’t worry, I’ve got links for you. Part 1, Part 2, Part 3…you’re…

9 min readOct 26, 2022

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Writing better by thinking less

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James Dowd

James Dowd

Writer and VP/Creative Director at Rebel. Founder at TheCreativeWild.com — a paid talent accelerator for creatives. Writer of the book WriteDumb.com

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