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eROI New York City Video – 2 Years Raw

Ryan Buchanan — Mon, 21 Dec 2009 02:20:32 +0000

Major props to the very talented Chris Masagatani who is our NYC Director and also an amazing video creator and producer. The video says it all, but I just want to reinforce how proud I am of Chris and Kavita for being one of our true bright spots this past year. eROI New York City has also done an awesome job staying connected to HQ in P’town. Check it out – the video makes you feel like you are in NYC – raw yet refined – is that possible?

eROI New York – 2009 Review from Christopher Masagatani on Vimeo.

Will eROI take PAF Battle of the Bands for 3rd Straight Year?

Ryan Buchanan — Thu, 07 May 2009 14:58:16 +0000

Alcoa presents (sorry, that’s the beginning of a TV commercial of “The Catch” in the 1982 NFL NFC Championship flashback when Dwight Clark levitated to grab a perfect pass from Joe Montana to lift the 49ers over the Cowboys). But, I digress. My mind faded to the dramatic music to Monday Night Football, but it’s now back on the prize – bragging rights to the Third Annual PAF Battle of the Bands at Someday Lounge in Old Town / Chinatown, Portland, Oregon where the creatives show their true colors after dark. If you want to take a look at videos from prior year’s Battle of the Band, now is your time to really soak in some entertaining video for 2008. It’s going to be almost impossible for eROI to win it for yet a third year in a row, but we’re going to bring our “A” Game. Check it (this is PAF’s main event email and all the info is below):

BATTLE OF THE BANDS

DATE:
Wednesday June 17, 2009

TIME:
6:00 pm

PLACE:
Someday Lounge
224 NW 5th Avenue
Portland, OR

COST:
$300 per band

Yes, it’s time once again for the infamous PAF Battle of the Bands. And if you haven’t guessed, the theme this year is the 90′s.

Ahhh, remember Jon Bon Jovi, Dee Lite, Madonna, Nirvana and the most wonderful of all, M.C. Hammer?

So put on your pantaloons or your plaid shirt (or both) and sign up your band for a chance at glory.

Sign-up Deadline is May 30th

Do you know your membership status? Join the dynamic men and women of Portland’s Creative Services
Contact the PAF office, 503.224.2623, or jamie@portlandadfed.com.

PLEASE WRITE A HAIKU COMMENT ON YOUR LOVE OF 90′S ROCK BANDS, RAP, POP MUSIC, ANY OF IT. CONTINUE THE INSPIRATION!

Agencies are Tired of Giving Away Ideas

Ryan Buchanan — Sun, 11 Feb 2007 18:41:58 +0000

Here’s a novel concept. I read a great MediaPost article, then took action, and it profoundly helped my business. If you are like 99.9% of creative agencies out there, you pitch business on an informal or formal basis and give some of your ideas away in hopes of tempting the prospective client to actually pay you for strategy and idea implementation. Up until this past week, we at eROI have given our ideas away in the form of a custom proposal. Thankfully, as an interactive agency that works with many other agencies, we seldomly do full-blown pitches with spec creative work. However, we have had several prospects and even current customers take our ideas without paying for them and either implement them in-house, or use an intern, or hire another agency to do at least a piece of the work.

In short, we haven’t protected ourselves until now. And, protection is a good thing – it prevents pregnancies, STDs, and a substantial loss of money if your ideas are taken without any compensation. You may ask, “aside from condoms, what sort of protection are you referring to?” We recently created a 2-page document that is similar to a Non-Disclosure Agreement, but is much less intimidating. We now require all prospective creative clients to sign this before our discussions and custom proposals. So far, so good. I’ll let you know when we receive our first pushback on this new process. Until then, I highly recommend other agencies to do the same.