You’re starting an agency and everyone wants you. Which brand do you reject first?

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Chick-Fil-A.

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Samsung

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I haven't even worked for them but I hard agree. Seen a few amazing spots over the years (Elton ostrich anyone?) But everything I've heard from anyone in their orbit are they are the absolute worst clients.

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Los Pollos Hermanos

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I would hang up on Verizon

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Hobby Lobby

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It’s a fun question! Trump 2024 for me.

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My list is long: Samsung, Verizon (actually any telecom), pharma or hospitals, any political campaigns in which their platform ignores civil/human rights, tobacco, NRA, most big banks (nothing against them necessarily, just miserably boring and tedious work in my experience)

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You covered all the bases, couldn't have said it better myself. No banks, never ever.

Anything too big that makes you close to a one-client-agency. It’s too risky, and when a client becomes too big to lose it, you suddenly start bending over backwards for everything. With smaller to medium sized clients you can push back and drop them if you have creative differences without too much at stake.

As for specific brands, I’d give Samsung the middle finger and tell them to go to h311.

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Samsung

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AYEYOOOOOO amen. Hope this is Brusko.

Home Depot

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ATT

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Anything Nestle

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Would you consider Purina as part of Nestle?

Tough to say. Any telecom. Any global CPG.

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Dunder Mifflin

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Respectfully and vehemently disagree.

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Easy; McDonald’s/Nike

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I'm working on some right now

Verizon.

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goya

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You’re not a business until you have a customer. If you’d ever done it, you’d know you’re the one who’s rejected first.

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You seem like the kind of person who watches Disney movies and points out that animals can’t really talk. Some conversations are just for fun, buddy. 😉

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mondelez

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it’s doing well, just the organization is bad in itself but the agency team is very in it together and close knit

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