I’ve never won much. I got a trophy for playing in the St George’s Basin Under 7’s soccer team, but everyone else on the team got one too, so it wasn’t particularly special. I remember receiving plenty of certificates throughout high school for being good at being good, but the only subject I actually topped was Grade 11 Practical Computing Methods; not much of a bragging right. I always used to sit back and laugh at the regularity and hilarity with which advertising people threw dos to award themselves. But now, under a shadow of irony I now find myself working at/with/for/beside/other “Queensland’s Most Awarded Agency” as declared by the Brisbane Advertising and Design Club. I’ve also been personally nominated for a ‘Moggie‘ Award for blogging and not so long ago was recognised by Jule’s algorithm as being one of the top 50 marketing bloggers in Australia.

The accolades are great and don’t get me wrong, it’s nice to site back and get a little pat on the head for putting some effort into something, but at the end of the day, I’m far more interested in writing an entertaining blog, not to mention helping clients turn their business around with amazing bits of strategy than I am with peer awards. dp dialogue, the social media marketing agency I run, is still a relatively new venture but already we’re starting to put some ideas into practice that are making clients sit up and take notice. The list of companies who have brought us on board is growing by the week and after summer we’ll have some pretty cool case studies with, gasp, financial returns.

So I’d like to flank the academy for now and get back to work - but thanks for reading

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