Hail to the Copywriter in Chief: Call Me a Groupie; I Don't Care ["Creative Class" Barf Alert]

Advertising Age ^ | 19 Jan 2009 | Millie Olson

[Teacher317]

This HAS to be a joke, right? Who would hire this dunce to be a copywriter?

Journalism majors routinely possess the lowest average SAT and ACT scores of all majors at American universities. Intellectuals, they ain't.

[sig226]

I can’t remember the name of the ad exective, but he wrote a book on marketing and used Gablinger’s beer as an example of failed strategy. He noted that the idea behind the product was good. It was the first light beer. But the product itself was awful. He said that the best marketing strategy would be for the company to sell less of it, therefore it would take longer for everyone to find how bad it was, and the company would remain in business. :)

[sausageseller]

Amazing how the Internet is devoid of any info on Lynda Pearson and Millie Olson.

These two San Fran amazons sure don't want anything about them out there.

[visualops]

Advertising is the bastion of poor grammar and the usurpation of vocabulary so it stands to reason she would love the vacuous batherings of the O.

[oblomov]

Well, I found a LinkedIn profile for Millie Olson:

Millie OlsonCEO at Amazon Advertising

San Francisco Bay Area
Current Co-Founder/CEO at Amazon Advertising
Past EVP/Executive Creative Director at Ketchum Advertising
VP/Creative Director at JWT
VP/Associate Creative Director at Needham, Harper and Steers
Copywriter at N.W. Ayer
Editorial Assistant at Seventeen Magazine

Education Colorado College

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Millie Olson’s Experience
Co-Founder/CEO
Amazon Advertising
(Privately Held; 11-50 employees; Marketing and Advertising industry)

1996 — Present (13 years)

EVP/Executive Creative Director
Ketchum Advertising
(Marketing and Advertising industry)

1982 — 1994 (12 years)

VP/Creative Director
JWT
(Marketing and Advertising industry)

1977 — 1982 (5 years)

VP/Associate Creative Director
Needham, Harper and Steers
(Marketing and Advertising industry)

1973 — 1977 (4 years)

Copywriter
N.W. Ayer
(Marketing and Advertising industry)

1970 — 1973 (3 years)

Editorial Assistant
Seventeen Magazine
(Public Relations and Communications industry)

1969 — 1970 (1 year)

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Millie Olson’s Education
Colorado College
BA, English, 1964 — 1968

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Additional Information
Millie Olson’s Websites:
My Company
My Blog
Millie Olson’s Groups:
Alliance of CEO’s

[VoiceOfBruck]

ZDS

[LittleBillyInfidel]

My two great HIGH SCHOOL Journalism teachers would have ripped this so called ‘’writer's’’ column to shreds. Had I written frags, started sentences with a conjunction, derived and used such a piss poor ‘’hacksaw’’ metaphor, or EVER employed the word ‘’stuff’’ - as used here twice, I would have been sent back to 6th Grade.

[DesertRhino]

This persons husband is ok with her fantasizing about another man like that? Sick..

[TheCipher]

One of Obama's most poignant refrains came late in the campaign: "America, we are a better country than this.

Hmm , she left out his other poignant ones such as :

We are the ones we have been waiting for

and without the teleprompter ....

Uhh .. ummm. uhh .ummm. yeah that's what I said

[kcvl]

Millie Olson, co-founder/president, Amazon Advertising, San Francisco

[ridesthemiles]

Excuse me miss but you got some kool-aid on your dress.”

The dress is soaked and dripping on the carpet.......

Wonder how much formal education this twit has to put aside her brains and spout this drivel???
Wonder what her words will sound like in a few months or years???

[ridesthemiles]

Millie Olson, co-founder/president, Amazon Advertising, San Francisco””

Another perfect example of why San Francisco whould be fenced in and de-contaminated with haste.

[Names Ash Housewares]

[Doc Savage]

That ain’t Kool Aid pal.....it’s white, it’s gooey, and comes from black testicles!

[bpjam]

Let’s pretend that there is no ‘conservative’ or ‘liberal’ America, but there are liberals and there are conservatives. And we just inaugurated a liberal.

If you are giddy every time you hear his voice or see him without a shirt on, you too are a liberal. There are no ‘conservatives’ who are ‘thrilled’ about Obama. There is no such a thing. There are only tremendous misconceptions about who IS and who is NOT conservative and what it is about Obama that they might occasionally agree with (when he is pretending to be a conservative to throw off the media).