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December 19, 2012 | By: Jake Edinger

As if You Needed Another Reason to Like the United Way

Uw-forblog Of course it’s rewarding to donate time and/or money to the United Way. Of course there are intrinsic benefits to helping others—even if you don’t know them.

But the real problem arises when you try to spread the news about your selfless acts without coming across as, well, self-serving.

Not to worry—the United Way is helping with that too. (Is there no end to their compassion?) Now, instead of posting on your Facebook wall about how you’re “so tired from pushing a wheel barrel around a rehab construction site all Saturday” or you “can’t wait to see the faces of the kids who open the gifts you got them,” you can simply select one of over fifteen tongue-in-cheek timeline photos for your profile.

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So, there’s no need to engage in shameless humblebragging. We’ll do it for you! And, hopefully, your Facebook friends who you may or may not know in real life will get a chuckle and some motivation to follow su...

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September 24, 2012 | By: Ross Bradley

Seeing the Forest for the Trees

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It isn’t often as an advertiser that you get to promote a product or service that is almost universally loved. If you stop to think, it makes sense. If everyone likes you, there isn’t much need to promote anything.

When the Missouri Department of Conservation Forestry Division came to us, they knew people liked trees. But in a state that has 14 million acres of forest, it’s pretty easy to start overlooking all that green.

So we started by taking the factory tour and getting out of the office.

Trees actually do a lot more than you first think. Of course you can thank trees for that great deck and the shade to enjoy it, but trees also help children concentrate, bring communities together and reduce stress. When we looked at all the good trees do, we began to wonder what our state would look like without them.

Pretty dismal.

Our goal was to get people thinking about trees but keep the smile that a walk in the woods brings. We crafted an aspirational tagline, ...

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