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Hi fishes! I volunteer with The Art of Good, a creative collective helping small businesses affected by the pandemic. They are seeking a little help from a media professional. Need an SEM POV for a small business looking to change their name and relaunch their brand. This is non-paid. More about giving back while in-between gigs. :) If you can help out or want to learn more, please reach out to me via LinkedIN. Thank you!! www.linkedin.com/in/karenkohn/
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Is it okay to call a sick day as freelancers?
Even W+K has flops every once in a while.

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1. Cash out retirement fund
2. Spend it all on weed
3. Congratulations—you have left the ad industry and entered the cannabis industry.
How do you leave any industry? Start reaching out . Have coffee with people in cannabis (virtually?) meet other people through them. Tell them you are open to jumping over. At some point someone reaches out w a job ...
Following.
I know some dudes who sell weed and coke and stuff. I can ask them how they broke into the industry. I’m pretty sure it’s all just having connections.
Rising Star
Mekanism has a cannabis client
Depends on the place. Few of the bigger cannabis companies have brought in proper CMOs and ad people to shape their brand. For example, Jason White, former Managing Director of W+K Shanghai and VP Marketing of Beats, is now CMO of Cureleaf and was also CMO of another cannabis company prior to. So places like that would understand advertising and have a somewhat organized in-house, but I doubt you’d be doing anything with a Superbowl sized budget. Probably more product demos and educational videos as cannabis as a legal business is still not widely accepted in the US.
Thank you, I’ve followed him for a little which is what peaked my interest.
You can check out any time, but you can never leave. 🎵🎶
Unless you get fired, laid off or age out.
There’s a business market in helping people leave the ad industry.
Pay is not comparable... but there are other perks. 🌲 🌲 🌲
Rising Star
Anomaly LA has Dosist as a client. 🤷🏻♂️
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Not a great industry to enter. It’s a race to the bottom.
Go to your living room? 😂
I worked at one for a year. AMA