The Tillamook Cheese Loaf Love Tour made a stop in Olympia last week and GCI was there! The cute baby loaf VW was parked outside of Ralph’s Thriftway and the Tillamook crew was passing out delicious samples & coupons. Of course we had to bring our four-legged friends who love cheese as much as we do. To see if the tour is coming to your town check out the Loaf Love Tour website. Sunshine, Ralph’s Thriftway & Tillamook Cheese, we couldn’t have asked for a better day!
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Tags: advertising, olympia is awesome
At the end of every work day Tugs, being the environmentalist that he is, carpools home with Paul. Sometimes Tugs will be busy working (aka sleeping) on something and loses track of time so Paul has to go looking for him.
Last week Paul was ready to leave the studio for the day and had to go on the hunt for Tugs. He searched high and low without any success until he heard some rustling upstairs near the bathroom. Assuming Tugs had found something interesting to play with, Paul decided to check the bathroom.
Once in the bathroom, Paul hears the rustling again but this time in the storage closet. To his surprise instead of Tugs, Paul finds a baby Opossum. Now most everyone would have probably screamed and ran away, especially when they were expecting a cat but not Paul. He gathered himself, ran downstairs to get his camera and some towels to grab the little guy with.
He picked up the baby Opossum and managed to get him out of the storage closet. Once downstairs, the Opossum squirmed free and had the run of the studio for a bit but Paul got some great shots as proof of his brave tale.
Posted in Funny Stuff | Tags: around the office
GCI has a lot of June birthdays so we like to celebrate them all at once at what we like to call ‘Junetasum’. This year to commemorate the birth of Jenny, Sandy, Paul & Carly, the GCI team headed over to The Mayan for a delicious Mexican lunch and then returned to the studio for Connie’s made-from-scratch vegan red velvet cake with cream cheese frosting & vanilla ice cream. The highlight of the event was when Sandy jumped up on a chair at The Mayan wearing a sombrero! Sorry there’s no pictures of that, they would be too hot for our blog anyways. Needless to say, it was a great way to celebrate birthdays!
- Carly
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When asked by the Washington Traffic Safety Commission for help on the new distracted driving campaign, GCI jumped at the opportunity to help warn others about the dangers of using a cell phone while driving. The team went to work creating a strong logo, web presence, and informational rack card after diligently researching case studies and reading stories after stories of heart-wrenching tragedies caused by distracted driving. GCI also utilized social media as a communication tool by creating a Facebook page to help notify and engage with the public. The goal for each piece is to inform and save lives.
Check out these links to get more information about the new law:
www.facebook.com/texttalkticket
Posted in Current Projects | Tags: branding, Design
If you missed our last e-blast scroll down a bit and check out the post titled, “Real Life Customer Service Tales”. Since we sent that out we have managed to train Tugs to be our new phone wizard. He’s been getting quite pooped.
It's fool-proof! If the phone rings, I'll wake up!
-Paul
Posted in Funny Stuff | Tags: around the office, e-blasts, gci, paul
On our homepage, you’ll find an icon to sign-up for our G-whiz e-blasts (which are pretty much incredible.) If you aren’t getting them, then you’re only getting half the impact of some of our blog posts!
What else? Our portfolio is continuing to grow. You should be sure to take a look at some of the slick design work that has been happening around GCI.
Bottom line? Don’t be a square! Click the GCI logo at the top of the page and get ready for some awesomeness.
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The GCI team celebrated Memorial Day this year like many other Americans, with a good old-fashioned BBQ. The three-day weekend started out rainy & cold, having many of us believing our BBQ fun was going to be limited to indoors this year. But Monday afternoon the clouds parted and sunshine beamed down on us. The day spent at the Miller’s and Lovelady’s was absolutely gorgeous. The festivities included a satisfying feast of hamburgers, huge slabs of ribs, delicious black bean burgers (of course, we couldn’t leave out our vegetarians) a fresh cilantro salad, potato salad, strawberry cream pies, homemade peanut butter & chocolate chip cookies and so much more yumminess.
Paul thoroughly enjoying his ribs
With it being such a beautiful day, a brave few decided they would try out their rafting skills out on the lake. The challenge was that not only was the water chilly, but we only had access to old cheap floaties that hardly any of us could fit on. Enjoy the hilarious videos of our attempts!
Captain Donnie!
After the fun of rafting we headed back for some intense ping-pong action. A few rounds later, we decided that regular ping-pong was not enough of a challenge. Being the creative folks that are, we kicked it up a notch by playing with seven people at a time and with random items we could find in the garage. Enjoy the madness !
- Carly
My customer service stories are from England. Years ago my husband and I were living there with our two small children. One day I scheduled a cable guy to come to the house and, like in the U.S., I was marooned at home waiting. He finally arrived some 4 hours late and announced it was “brew” time. He wouldn’t work until he had a brew (cup of tea) and biscuit (cookie). I thought he was joking. But no, he was not. I figured, what the hell, “when in Rome.” I made him a cup of tea and gave him some animal crackers. Then he got to work.
Also in England we had a dry cleaner who delivered door to door. The shop was called “Smart Alex” after the owner, Alex. This being England, the name referred to a “snappy or sharp dresser.” Part of their schtick was to deliver the dry cleaning dressed in a tux. A guy used to ring my doorbell at about 6PM dressed in a tux, complete with tails, dry cleaning in hand. I didn’t make the association right away. I used to think, “Wow, this guy has quite a social life, always going off to formal affairs after he does his deliveries.”
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Our Facebook page is getting a makeover and you know you want to see it!
Be sure to log on and “like” page to be kept in the loop of everything advertising, check out our great albums, join in on hot discussion topics & more.
We absolutely practice what we preach! We have several clients who are on Facebook & it’s doing wonders for them. Have you thought about getting your business on? With over 400 million active users and people spending over 500 billion minutes per month on Facebook, as a marketer it’s quite simple. You go where the people are. Call me today & we’ll get started.
- Carly
Posted in Current Projects | Tags: marketing
Twister Donuts (conveniently located just down the street from GCI) has an amazing thing… It’s a maple bar, wait for it… covered in bacon!
Check out this photo, then walk-no RUN to the donut shop (you’ll need the cardio) and get yourself one!
-Paul
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August 18th, 2010 |
