April 9, 2020June 6, 2020 Life in the Bag Atlanta Creative Marketing Firm Makes 90-Day “No Layoff” Pledge We’re in this together: Brown Bag Marketing is ready to help Read More
March 4, 2020June 6, 2020 Life in the Bag Celebrating women today – and every day at Brown Bag Marketing As International Women’s Day approaches, we’d like to take a minute to reflect on the progress we’ve made as a… Read More
September 18, 2019June 6, 2020 Life in the Bag & Marketing & Technology and Mobile How Being a Maker Makes Me a Better Coder When Software Developer Rob Williams isn’t busy making beautiful websites and apps here at Brown Bag, he’s creating and building… Read More
August 7, 2019June 6, 2020 Life in the Bag Four Ways a Hobby Can Boost Your Career We believe in chasing our passions both inside and outside of the office, and we love when those worlds collide.… Read More
June 18, 2019February 22, 2021 Life in the Bag Core Values Recap: Work Hard Play Hard! We recently continued a time honored tradition of recognizing our greatest asset, our people, throughout a day of events called… Read More
June 7, 2019February 22, 2021 Life in the Bag Brown Bag’s Executive Sela Missirian Graduates Leadership Buckhead Class of 2019 Brown Bag Marketing is proud to announce that one of its own has graduated from Leadership Buckhead. Focused on developing… Read More
April 17, 2019February 22, 2021 Life in the Bag Brown Bag Sweeps the Hooch to Keep Atlanta’s Rivers Clean As a company, we’ve dedicated ourselves to leaving things better than we found them. That is why we were so… Read More
February 11, 2019June 6, 2020 Life in the Bag & Marketing Leadership’s Impact on Growing Teams Trying to help your teams grow in their efficiency and effectiveness? Our Director of Project Management shares the questions he… Read More
November 7, 2018November 24, 2020 Life in the Bag & Marketing Brown Bag Finalist for Three TAG Marketing Awards The 2018 TAG Marketing Awards celebrate companies and individuals that innovate and utilize technology to create new marketing experiences. Check out our… Read More
September 18, 2018June 6, 2020 Life in the Bag A Culture of Work Hard, Play Hard Last week, we continued a time honored tradition of recognizing our greatest asset, our people, throughout a day of events… Read More
September 13, 2018June 6, 2020 Life in the Bag Growing our Future Leaders through Empowerment U Last year, Brown Bag formalized our commitment to our future leaders with a year-long development program. Now in its second… Read More
August 29, 2018February 22, 2021 Life in the Bag Brown Bag employees join new Junior Board of Directors for The Empty Stocking Fund Brown Bag Marketing is proud to announce that two of its own have been named to The Empty Stocking Fund's… Read More
August 22, 2018June 6, 2020 Life in the Bag Six Work Habits for Agency Success From her summer internship, Emily is sharing six work habits she recommends to anyone with agency career aspirations. Read More
June 26, 2018June 6, 2020 Life in the Bag & Marketing Four Lessons on Wonder and Inspiration from Creative South Our creatives are experts on inspiration, but even they need to recharge occasionally. Find out how our designer Kara added… Read More
April 30, 2018June 6, 2020 Life in the Bag Seven Ways Our Agency is Going Green In honor of Earth Day, Brown Bag dedicated the entire month of April to encourage our team members to start… Read More
April 17, 2018June 6, 2020 Life in the Bag & Marketing Four Behaviors to Leverage your Influence Upon graduating from the inaugural Empowerment U class, check out four tips our Business Development Manager is taking away from… Read More
February 27, 2018June 6, 2020 Life in the Bag & Marketing Dear College Senior: Expectation Versus Reality of Life in the Workforce In just a few short months, a new class of graduates will make the transition from student to employee. From… Read More
February 2, 2018June 6, 2020 Life in the Bag & Marketing Who makes a better leader: Captain or Coach? Who makes the best leader? A coach or a captain? The answer might not be what you think. Find out… Read More
December 20, 2017June 6, 2020 Life in the Bag Cheers to Raising Big Funds for a Great Cause The holidays are a great time to come together and give back to the community. While volunteering at Santa's Village… Read More
October 25, 2017June 6, 2020 Life in the Bag The Best Lessons I’ve Learned through 15 Years in the Business As Brown Bag celebrates its 15 Year Anniversary, our founder and president, Doug Brown, shares a few guiding principles to… Read More
September 22, 2017June 6, 2020 Life in the Bag How to Recognize and Celebrate your People, Bagger-Style Here at The Bag, we recognize that our greatest asset is our people - Bagggers, as we like to call… Read More
July 10, 2017June 6, 2020 Life in the Bag & Marketing Investing in Baggers. With Empowerment U. Brown Bag has always invested in its employees, so we’re excited to formalize our commitment to our future leaders with… Read More
April 11, 2016October 11, 2017 Life in the Bag Baggers volunteer at Sweep the Hooch 2016 This past weekend Brown Bag took to the waters of ATL and made what difference we could in this year’s… Read More
December 24, 2015November 7, 2016 Life in the Bag & Marketing ‘Tis The Season – Brown Bag partners with The Empty Stocking Fund for kids’ holiday cheer This holiday season, we have been hard at work supporting The Empty Stocking Fund, an Atlanta based non-profit organization that… Read More
December 3, 2015November 7, 2016 Life in the Bag & Marketing & Technology and Mobile What do employees think of Coding 101 at The Bag? We launched a new program at The Bag this summer called Coding 101. The purpose of the ongoing weekly series… Read More
September 16, 2015December 8, 2015 Life in the Bag Boomerang Baggers … Say What?! When Baggers return … you have a Boomeranger! At Brown Bag, 10% of our agency employees are Boomerangers. Whether it’s… Read More
August 25, 2015October 11, 2017 Life in the Bag From Internships to Full Time Jobs: 3 Baggers Tell All According to Forbes.com and a recent survey done by Internships.com, it’s been found that 69% of companies with 100 or more employees… Read More
June 3, 2015October 11, 2017 Design and User Experience & Life in the Bag & Marketing User-insights via M&M’s bowl: Learning’s from Digital Summit 2015 Part 1 I recently heard a great story by the behavioral psychologist Matt Wallaert at Digital Summit 2015. He asked the audience… Read More
May 15, 2015November 8, 2016 Life in the Bag & Marketing Leadership Lessons from Leadercast 2015 Last Friday, I was fortunate to be one of the 100,000+ attendees at Leadercast Live 2015. What a great experience!… Read More
February 13, 2015April 29, 2015 Life in the Bag & Marketing Do’s and Dont’s for Building your Professional Network If you’re sniffing around our blog, chances are either you or someone you know may one day be interested in… Read More
August 1, 2014May 8, 2017 Life in the Bag & Marketing Summer Blog Reading List: Week Two This week’s top 3 blog picks include: Vox by Ezra Klein Zen Habits by Leo Babauta FN Dish by Food… Read More
July 30, 2014November 24, 2020 Animal Health & Life in the Bag & Marketing How Mowgli made me a Millenial Pet Parent I’ve been interning at Brown Bag this summer and it only took me a few days to detect the animal… Read More
July 25, 2014September 9, 2015 Life in the Bag & Marketing It’s back! Summer blog reading list: Week one It’s that time of year again! Time to build a bigger, better, badass Bagger book list! But, in our busy,… Read More
June 6, 2014April 23, 2015 Design and User Experience & Life in the Bag & Marketing & Technology and Mobile Need the skinny on Apple’s WWDC Conference 2014? As the name suggests, World Wide Developer’s Conference, is an annual meeting held by Apple to unveil its latest and… Read More
October 18, 2013January 14, 2016 Life in the Bag Zombie Physical Therapy (Week 1) SO much talent here at the Bag. And who knew we had a resident zombie Bagger? We hope you enjoy… Read More
October 2, 2013November 24, 2020 Animal Health & Design and User Experience & Life in the Bag & Technology and Mobile The Internet is the greatest disappearing act of all time This summer, our team presented five high-level digital marketing trends for an interested client. Among those mega-trends discussed, the concept… Read More
September 26, 2013January 14, 2016 Design and User Experience & Life in the Bag & Marketing & Technology and Mobile Jimmy Fallon and Justin Timberlake on the #hashtag We’ve poked fun at the irrelevant hashtag, the hashtag-happy and sentences-as-hashtags here at the Bag before, so it was very… Read More
August 30, 2013October 11, 2017 Life in the Bag The FINAL Book Bag Pick #10: “The E Myth Revisited” Editors note: Thanks for reading with us this summer! This is our final entry in the employee summer Book Bag… Read More
August 29, 2013January 14, 2016 Design and User Experience & Life in the Bag & Marketing AIGA: Don’t Call it a Comeback Many Georgia Football seasons ago, when I was just a naïve design student living in Athens, Georgia, my teachers always… Read More
August 26, 2013October 11, 2017 Design and User Experience & Life in the Bag & Marketing & Technology and Mobile Guinness & Gifting? Santa in July? It’s in the Bag. Our Summer Highlight – 12 Days of Gifting with The Empty Stocking Fund Guinness and gifting? Santa in July? Shots… Read More
August 23, 2013October 11, 2017 Life in the Bag The Book Bag Pick #9: “Daring Greatly” This Week’s Pick: “Daring Greatly” by Brené Brown Book Bagger: Liz Fusco Read More
August 16, 2013October 11, 2017 Life in the Bag The Book Bag Pick #8: “Happy, Happy, Happy…” This Week’s Pick: “Happy, Happy, Happy: My Life and Legacy as the Duck Commander” by Phil Robertson Book Bagger: Pauline… Read More
August 9, 2013October 11, 2017 Life in the Bag The Book Bag Pick #7: ‘Smart Choices…’ This Week’s Pick: “Smart Choices: A Practical Guide to Making Better Decisions” by John Hammond, Howard Raiffa, Ralph Keeney Book… Read More
August 2, 2013October 11, 2017 Life in the Bag The Book Bag Pick #6: ‘Fables: Covers’ This Week’s Pick: “Fables: Covers” Book Bagger: Jason Grass, Senior Art Director Read More
July 26, 2013October 11, 2017 Life in the Bag The Book Bag Pick #5: “The Historian” This Week’s Pick: “The Historian” by Elizabeth Kostova Book Bagger: Rebecca Page, VP, Client Services Read More
July 22, 2013January 14, 2016 Life in the Bag Christmas in July! It’s never too early to get into the gifting spirit, especially to help parents living in poverty provide gifts to… Read More
July 19, 2013October 11, 2017 Life in the Bag The Book Bag Pick #4: ‘Ender’s Game’ Pick of the week: “Ender’s Game” by Orson Scott Card Book Bagger: Dan Hoffman, Interactive Developer Read More
July 12, 2013October 11, 2017 Life in the Bag The Book Bag Pick #3: ‘Professionalism in Flip Flops’ This Week’s Pick: “Professionalism in Flip Flops” by Ryan Kulp Book Bagger: Phu Xuan Le, Account Coordinator Read More
July 2, 2013January 14, 2016 Life in the Bag & Marketing The Brief Wondrous Life of a Busy Marketer In honor of summer, dear readers, I’m going to slow it down for a sec and talk about – wait… Read More
June 28, 2013October 11, 2017 Life in the Bag The Book Bag Pick #2: “The Effective Executive” This Week’s Pick: “The Effective Executive” by Peter F. Drucker Book Bagger: Jason Wallace, Director of Interactive Development Why did… Read More
June 21, 2013October 11, 2017 Life in the Bag The Book Bag Pick #1: “The Idiot” Here at the Bag, we have a melange of characters and talents, and we are itching to share them with… Read More
May 1, 2013February 16, 2016 Life in the Bag & Marketing & Technology and Mobile Marketing & IT: So Happy Together Part 2 Last week I wrote about some perceptions and realities with how IT and Marketing work together in an organization. This… Read More
April 26, 2013January 14, 2016 Life in the Bag & Marketing & Technology and Mobile Marketing & IT: So Happy Together Part 1 Having worked as an IT Director for marketing agencies for nearly 7 years, it took me a while to understand… Read More
April 22, 2013January 14, 2016 Life in the Bag & Marketing What’s It Like To Get “BAGGED”? Brown Bag WINtern Emilie Norton shared some thoughts about her BAGGED experience working with the Brown Bag team during the… Read More
April 10, 2013January 14, 2016 Life in the Bag & Marketing My Day at “The Bag” by Lauren Kang, Sophomore at Cornell University’s School of Hotel Administration Before returning to the chaos that is my college… Read More
April 1, 2013January 14, 2016 Life in the Bag & Marketing Mastering The Art Of The Hashtag Ah the hashtag. It’s a beautiful and powerful thing. The hashtag is a great categorization tool that allows users to… Read More
December 18, 2012January 14, 2016 Life in the Bag & Technology and Mobile Instagram? Add Photographer to your LinkedIn skills now! We all take photos, but would we… should we…consider ourselves photographers? More than likely, most of us would answer that… Read More
November 16, 2012November 7, 2016 Life in the Bag Celebrating Our Founder (a.k.a. Why our Boss is Better than Yours) Part 2 As promised, we continue with some choice excerpts from Doug’s emails over the years. Why? Because if you are wondering… Read More
November 9, 2012November 7, 2016 Life in the Bag Celebrating Our Founder (a.k.a. Why our Boss is Better than Yours) Part 1 Note from the Editor: For the past six months, leading up to our 10th anniversary celebration, we have been giving… Read More
August 17, 2012January 14, 2016 Life in the Bag & Marketing & Technology and Mobile App Of The Week: Epicurious Happy Friday! In honor of our 10th anniversary celebrations, Brown Bag is devoting this month to FOOD. June was charity,… Read More
July 13, 2012January 14, 2016 Life in the Bag Take One Down, Pass It Around Beer – such a simpleton’s name for a delight that’s had such impact on cultures across the world and through… Read More
July 2, 2012November 24, 2020 Life in the Bag & Marketing & Technology and Mobile Girl Talk says “Thanks!” Girl Talk is incredibly grateful to Doug Brown and Brown Bag Marketing for the tremendous amount of pro-Bono support they… Read More
June 25, 2012October 11, 2017 Life in the Bag Founder’s Story: 10 Years in the Bag It’s hard to believe that 10 years ago this upcoming Labor Day weekend, I gently shook my very 10 month… Read More