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Andy Nulman

Interests: working out, jewelry, contemporary art (the wilder the better), mobile entertainment, playing hockey, buying clothes, loud rock music, innovative design, no arithmetic, reading, writing, public speaking, snowboarding

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What I Learned This Week--When Your Title is You

Last Tuesday, I was introduced to a young man who will be working for me this summer as our advertising and promotional coordinator at Just For Laughs. He was introduced as “The New Theo.” That introduction was a massive compliment,... Continue reading

Posted 5 days ago at Pow! Right Between The Eyes! Andy Nulman's Blog About Surprise

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What I Learned This Week--If Your Past Is Your Future, You're History

As a rule, I usually dread corporate strategy meetings for a number of reasons, including but not limited to: They are clichéd To the loudest go the spoils There are few concrete results If perchance something concrete is resolved, it... Continue reading

Posted May 13, 2013 at Pow! Right Between The Eyes! Andy Nulman's Blog About Surprise

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What I Learned This Week--Chewing On Perspectively Modified Organisms

When is a food not a food? To legions of concerned and vocal do-gooders, its when "Big Agri" steps in and toys with Mother Nature to produce Genetically Modified Organisms, aka GMOs. But to people in the marketing biz, it's... Continue reading

Posted May 6, 2013 at Pow! Right Between The Eyes! Andy Nulman's Blog About Surprise

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Hey-- I don't really believe in petitions. They are silent and hidden. The best way to make Montreal a bilingual city is to do things that have visual impact. Stuff like Just For Laughs, C2-MTL, the jazzfest, etc. do the trick beautifully, but this can be accomplished on many levels. You need imagination, guts and the will to carry out the two; even if it's something as small as repeating yourself in both French and English every time you interact publicly, it's a start. Petitions are yesterday; action is tomorrow!

Commented May 2, 2013 on What I Learned This Week--Why Quebec's Language Police Are Good For Anglos AND For Business at Pow! Right Between The Eyes! Andy Nulman's Blog About Surprise

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What I Learned This Week--Let Go The Line

Consider this post a corollary, a sequel or at least a fairly close relative to last week’s dissertation. However, instead of focusing on walls, fences and other so-called “barriers to entry,” this week’s post puts the spotlight on a different... Continue reading

Posted Apr 29, 2013 at Pow! Right Between The Eyes! Andy Nulman's Blog About Surprise

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What I Learned This Week--There Are No More Barriers To Entry

Historians officially record November 9, 1989 as the beginning of the end—the tearing down of the infamous Berlin Wall. I don’t know what day they will set for this landmark event, but it’s one that’s already upon us…for The Business... Continue reading

Posted Apr 22, 2013 at Pow! Right Between The Eyes! Andy Nulman's Blog About Surprise

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What I Learned This Week--Crude, Rude, Inappropriate...and Totally Effective

As videos go, it's a relatively basic one. One fixed camera, shooting a handful of non-professional actors, the majority of them uttering only a simple word or two. Most of the time, these words are profane. (For those outside Quebec,... Continue reading

Posted Apr 15, 2013 at Pow! Right Between The Eyes! Andy Nulman's Blog About Surprise

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What I Learned This Week--Seeing Double

As an Internet marketing transaction, it started off perfectly. I just so happened to be in the market for a new pair of inexpensive reading glasses. I could have picked up a pair of those bargain-bin readers at the corner... Continue reading

Posted Apr 8, 2013 at Pow! Right Between The Eyes! Andy Nulman's Blog About Surprise

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What I Learned This Week--Improvement By Death

My lord, is this blog post impeccably timed! It combines the Passover themes of escape from slavery and death (i.e. the 10th plague, where God smites all Egyptian first-born) with the underlying raison d’être of Easter, namely the crucifixion of... Continue reading

Posted Apr 1, 2013 at Pow! Right Between The Eyes! Andy Nulman's Blog About Surprise

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What I Learned This Week--The Necessity of "Vibe Management"

I’ve been reading marketing/business books ever since my last year of high school, and if there’s a constant among the great ones, it’s being able to distill the main message from 300 or so pages of brilliant babble into one... Continue reading

Posted Mar 25, 2013 at Pow! Right Between The Eyes! Andy Nulman's Blog About Surprise

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What I Learned This Week--The Power of "Who's In The Room"

Given that I am one of the speakers at the upcoming C2-MTL creative conference in May, and given that my years in showbiz and in tech have provided me with a myriad of international contacts, I’ve been put on the... Continue reading

Posted Mar 18, 2013 at Pow! Right Between The Eyes! Andy Nulman's Blog About Surprise

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What I Learned This Week--How to Defeat Defeat

Last week, I was dealt a major blow of crushing disappointment proportions. Nothing life-or-death, no major medical or family crisis, just got the answer I didn't want to receive for something I was not merely looking forward to, but really,... Continue reading

Posted Mar 11, 2013 at Pow! Right Between The Eyes! Andy Nulman's Blog About Surprise

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If they don't have the gall, I would INSIST! I would call the Societe St. Jean Baptise and every other hardliner in the province and complain until I'm blue in the face. Then I'd be sure to gather dozens of cameras and as much media--traditional and new--as I could muster once the sign IS taken down. I'd put the IRON in irony.

Commented Mar 5, 2013 on What I Learned This Week--Why Quebec's Language Police Are Good For Anglos AND For Business at Pow! Right Between The Eyes! Andy Nulman's Blog About Surprise

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What I Learned This Week--Why Quebec's Language Police Are Good For Anglos AND For Business

I've been blogging for close to seven years now, and over that time, I don't think I've ever posted about politics; my subject matters have run the gamut of business, the somewhat absurd, and the generalities of life. But when... Continue reading

Posted Mar 4, 2013 at Pow! Right Between The Eyes! Andy Nulman's Blog About Surprise

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What I Learned This Week--Evening Out Life's Odds

I got into a...well, let's call it an "animated discussion" Sunday night at (of all places!) an Oscar party about (of all subjects!) mathematical probabilities. The argu...okay, "animated discussion," centered on little Quvenzhané Wallis' chances to take home the trophy... Continue reading

Posted Feb 25, 2013 at Pow! Right Between The Eyes! Andy Nulman's Blog About Surprise

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What I Learned This Week--Copping Out and Muzzling the Pitbull

Sometimes, I learn by observing. Other times by reading. I rarely miss by listening, and often am surprised by what I pick up while actually talking. But in my continued quest for constant learning, rarely have I had as much... Continue reading

Posted Feb 18, 2013 at Pow! Right Between The Eyes! Andy Nulman's Blog About Surprise

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What I Learned This Week--How To STAY In

Mid-February marks a very special time in my calendar every year. It's a time of courtship and match-making; of romance, promises of devotion and the start of what could be a beautiful relationship. Forget Valentine's Day; I speak of the... Continue reading

Posted Feb 11, 2013 at Pow! Right Between The Eyes! Andy Nulman's Blog About Surprise

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What I Learned This Week--Just Say Yes

About three weeks ago, I was asked to deliver a keynote speech. And I've been wavering on giving a definitive answer ever since. For the record, it's at a gathering of Young Chamber of Commerce Organizations, so the setting is... Continue reading

Posted Feb 4, 2013 at Pow! Right Between The Eyes! Andy Nulman's Blog About Surprise

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It would do me good to have a vacation DURING the festival, Matthew!

Commented Jan 29, 2013 on What I Learned This Week: Breaking Down Is Good To Do at Pow! Right Between The Eyes! Andy Nulman's Blog About Surprise

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While I hope you;re right, I sadly disagree. Let's meet up in 25 years and see what pans out!

Commented Jan 29, 2013 on What I Learned This Week--Un-Effin'-Real! at Pow! Right Between The Eyes! Andy Nulman's Blog About Surprise

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Send me a pic of the board, Lorne, and I would be honored to post it!

Commented Jan 29, 2013 on What I Learned This Week--Time Stands Still at Pow! Right Between The Eyes! Andy Nulman's Blog About Surprise

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What I Learned This Week--The Strange Math of Creativity

I've been doing a lot of thinking about creativity these days. A heckuva lot. Given my career, my past, my current job, my personality, and my inbred passion for the subject, that's nothing out of the ordinary. But what's taking... Continue reading

Posted Jan 28, 2013 at Pow! Right Between The Eyes! Andy Nulman's Blog About Surprise

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What I Learned This Week--Time Stands Still

By nature, I don't usually harbour much sympathy for multinational corporations or high-flying billionaires, but I must admit I was a little disappointed in the vicious reaction to Cirque du Soleil's recent announcement of fiscal losses and job cuts. For... Continue reading

Posted Jan 21, 2013 at Pow! Right Between The Eyes! Andy Nulman's Blog About Surprise

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What I Learned This Week--Un-Effin'-Real!

As you read this, I am flying home after a 10-day snowboarding vacation in Vail, Colorado; one that has left my body bruised and wracked with throbs of pain. It’s not anything new; I’ve been doing the same thing every... Continue reading

Posted Jan 14, 2013 at Pow! Right Between The Eyes! Andy Nulman's Blog About Surprise

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What I Learned This Week--The Problem With Strangers

The ominous four-word warning is a familiar one to anybody whoever had a mother. “Don’t talk to strangers.” Usually uttered as we were shuffled off to school, the four words were effective at putting the fear of God into us,... Continue reading

Posted Jan 7, 2013 at Pow! Right Between The Eyes! Andy Nulman's Blog About Surprise

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