We’ve been lucky enough to be working on a great movie, In Time, for 20th Century Fox, and we got to meet Justin Timberlake himself at the press junket last week.
We asked him a number of questions from real Facebook fans, but this answer was the one we were most interested in:
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Followers of Chrysler’s official Twitter account (@ChryslerAutos) saw some salty language come their way on Wednesday. The offending tweet read “I find it ironic that Detroit is known as the #motorcity and yet no one here knows how to f—ing drive.”
For a big brand, it’s an embarrassing moment when you drop the f-bomb in public. Behind the scenes, on the floor, behind closed doors, it’s fine. But in public? No way. Not even for a brand whose poster child, Eminem, is an f-ing f-bomb poet.
They’re building a large monstrosity of a house on my block that will take about six months to complete.
At the end of a half-year, it’s easy to look at a baby who’s sleeping through the night, or a shiny new house and know that they were worthwhile investments. It took daily work, but you built something good.
The internet has the ability to move you somewhere good in six months. It might happen in less (but that’s a gamble).
But six months worth of photos, videos, posts, tweets, updates, and honesty can go a long way to turn the head of a prospective client, customer, or fan.
Why wait until six months down the road to kick yourself? Kick yourself now. And start.