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The Working From Home Memes That Hit Too Close to Home!

So, how are you? How’s work-from-home life treating you?*   The days … all 24 hours of them … the weeks … all 7 days of them … It’s for our own good, and it’s working, but being under house arrest (more or less) is changing work life in unexpected ways.  Let’s recap a few …

Why Digital Marketing is So Important During the COVID-19 Crisis

The coronavirus pandemic has changed the way that we’ll live our lives for good. Things will get better at some point – hopefully sooner than later – and life will settle into a new normal, but we’ll be changed for good.  At Avenir Thinking, we’re confident that our growing family of clients will get through …

Facebook, the Open Graph and Website Page Previews

You have a WordPress website, and you want to share your original content from the website to Facebook. In most cases, this is fairly straightforward. You just copy the URL of the page or post, and paste it into the ‘share’ box in Facebook. Ideally, the right image, title and short description appear as a …

Year-End Review

I’ve been a fan of all things French since I was a student at Tufts University way back when, and this year, I was fortunate to be able to spend the month of September in Paris revisiting some old haunts and enjoying that magical city. In fact, when naming my company, that love of France …

VTOLs, Robots, and Borgs, Oh My

As a species, humans have been spotty on predicting the future. We don’t have the sentient, lifelike robots The Blade Runner predicted for November 2019 (and Manhattan still mostly isn’t a maximum-security prison a la Escape From New York), but Back to the Future II was only off by a year on the Cubs winning …

Less Than 100 Days Till Christmas

By the time you open this email, summer will be but a memory. Depending on where you live, it may still feel like summer, but look around. The leaves have all turned to pumpkin spice. If you don’t already have your Halloween costume planned, you might as well just put a bandana on a stick …

Type Hype

Started thinking about how summer’s almost over. Then about school starting soon. Of course, that got us thinking about buying school supplies. Then about wandering the stationery aisle for an hour trying to decide on the perfect pen (before buying a ten pack of Bic black ballpoints). All of which got us thinking about handwriting. …

Summertime Blurbs

With any luck, you’re reading this at the beach! While you’re working on not getting a tan, check out what we found interesting, enlightening and entertaining this month.  Shade-y marketingHow do you feel about brands dragging other brands on social media? Corporate schadenfreude has definitely become more prevalent, thanks mostly to Twitter, the Triumph the Comic Insult …

We’re Hiring

Avenir Thinking, a boutique creative agency in Banker’s Hill is looking for an associate to join our organization. You are: organized, proactive, professional, good judgement, a bit of agency experience, ability to prioritize. You have: a creative mind, and a tidy desk. You’re experienced in: MacOS, ever hour, Basecamp, Slack, HelpScout, Auctria, G Suite (or …

Watch Us Create a Following on LinkedIn

We just recently celebrated two years of being in business at Avenir. You may relate to time milestones causing self-reflection. Most of our time during the first 18+ months were spent building client websites, building our client’s business and managing social media … for our clients.  In January of this year, we started to look …