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Breakthrough creative requires courage and commitment (not to mention a lot of faith, and, yes, a little bit of luck). But, in a crowded marketplace, it's also the only way to make the emotional connections that move your audience.

Which makes it, ironically, the safest move you can make.

Mortar believes in creating emotional connections with people at every point of contact with your company— whether they're consumers, business partners, employees or investors. Because, together, all those impressions add up to tell your story. They comprise the narrative DNA that makes you, well...you.

Budda serves society by rocking. Mortar serves society by...hey, look, we paid our debt to society, man. For the last time, we didn't know that was the Mayor's car! The Budda poster campaign earned an International Davey Award in 2005. Raise your goblet of rock in tribute.

 
Budda Amplifiers
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When St. Mary's said they needed to boost ER admissions, our first thought was to hide in the bushes outside the hospital and beat the daylights out of passersby. For some reason, our lawyers had a problem with that. So we turned the many Darwinian things people do into the remarkably effective Famous Last Words campaign, instead.

 

If you buy into the principle that consumers use brands to express themselves, then have we got a gift idea for you. With OneShare, consumers literally own a piece of the brands they love. Mortar helps OneShare become both a mode of consumer self expression and a must-have commodity.

 
OneShare
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Isilon® Systems is the leader in clustered storage technology. Wait! Come back! It really is cool, we swear! So you can already see our problem: How do we position something most people consider to be one step above plumbing as a deadly competitive weapon? By appealing to visionaries on a level they understand innately.

 
Isilon Systems
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A room full of academics regards a bunch of slick advertising types the way most of us regard pigeon droppings. Which can make internal consensus somewhat difficult to build. Mortar360 to the rescue. Today, GGU faculty are frequent sources for major news stories, and the University receives record levels of inquiries from new students. Best of all, they've stopped calling Security on us.

 

Rydex is one of the first financial services firms to offer products like hedge funds, inverse funds, products for market timing — pretty unorthodox stuff. Problem was, they advertised the same way the old-line financial companies do. Bulls. Bears. Blecch. Mortar360 helped Rydex develop an identity as nontraditional as their approach.

 
Rydex Investments
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Listening to customers convinced Phonic Ear that they don't sell complicated audio technology, they sell "active learning systems." And their unfortunately-named "Radium" system became "FrontRow." The first million-dollar sale was not far behind.

 

We love boats. We just weren’t sure we wanted to live on one. That was before we saw the Orphalese. Now, Todd spends hours each day staring longingly out to sea, muttering something about it being time for his hot oil massage.

 
The Orphalese
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Why on earth does every realtor on earth advertise by showing glamour shots of themselves? Does that ever motivate anyone? Mortar360 to the rescue. Once Frank Howard Allen understood the things that do motivate homebuyers, they were able to communicate on precisely the emotional level their customers were craving.