In the heart of Brooklyn, there’s a museum dedicated to the poorly executed ideas, the designs that make people squint and tilt their head, and the overhyped products that never shined. It’s the Museum of Failure, and design plays a … Read More
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Keeping Up with the Coal Crew: May 2023
Summer is coming on strong and to celebrate its arrival, we’ve put together some hot tunes to accompany the sun’s intensifying heat (be sure to enjoy them with UV protection). From modern pop jams to songs you didn’t know you … Read More
The Coal Crew’s Tips For Cultivating an Authentic Company Culture
Cultivating an authentic company culture can benefit your business in many ways. Most notably, it can ensure that your top talent remains loyal and invested for the long haul. After all, 71% of employees say they would start looking for … Read More
Keeping Up with the Coal Crew: Show & Tell Edition
After a long, cold winter for many of our Coal Creative clan, this spring we’re diving into what enlivens us with joy. We asked each team member to pick one object in their space to show and share at a … Read More
Work Sweet Work: How To Optimize Your Work-From-Home Space
The modern workspace is evolving. Workers are fleeing fluorescent overhead lighting, open floor plans and bumbling water cooler conversations for the comfort of at-home pajama pants and the sweet, sweet nothings of their own lo-fi Spotify playlist. And who needs … Read More
The Art of the Creative Sales Pitch
From elevator pitches to suit-and-tie presentations (complete with visual aids), sales pitches are part and parcel of getting your product in front of clients. But there are certainly secret ingredients to the perfect sales pitch — whether you’re persuading peckish … Read More
Keeping Up With The Coal Crew | February 2023
Keeping Up with the Coal Crew: Monopoly Edition Ah, Monopoly! The classic childhood game that brought families and friends together only to summarily and systematically tear them apart. But don’t get us wrong, it’s riveting gameplay. Especially for those particularly … Read More
Getting Savvy with Socials: Which Platforms Should You Be On?
Today’s brands simply can’t avoid social media. Early 2023 predictions estimate that there will be 4.89 billion social media users worldwide by the end of the year.1 That said, customers are rarely spending their free time idling through shopping malls … Read More
Keeping Up With The Coal Crew | January 2023
2023: The Year of Sound Effects, Airbrushed Nails and Ignoring Venmo Requests For the January 2023 edition of KUWTCC, we asked our team to be trend meteorologists — to don their blue raincoats and baseball caps and forge into the … Read More
A Letter From Holly K. Pilcavage, President & CEO: 2022 Recap
With 2022 coming to an end, I’d like to take a few minutes to reflect with you all. As I thought about where to begin with this message, I admittedly struggled a bit. Then, I remembered our annual end-of-year team … Read More