Smugglers' Inn

12/03/2018

Hey, you. Smugglers' Inn has been seriously neglecting FB for, like, a couple years in favor of a blog. What can we say? Pirates are lazy. Please visit smugglersinn.blogspot.com to keep up the latest adventures of America's favorite restaurant/ad agency.

The ongoing saga of America's only theme restaurant-turned-ad agency.

12/24/2013

I miss him the most at this time of year. I wish like hell I'd get one of those story CDs in the mail.

Oh, no!Look at all these words.Relax, you don’t have to read them.Just skip to the work and you can go on living your life without ever knowing how Smugglers’ Inn, a restaurant in Blaine, Minnesota famous for clam chowder also came to be an ad agency.One which, today,serves up whip-smart campaigns f...

05/07/2013

Smugglers' Inn is pleased to show some work for our first international client, the Raindance Film Festival of London. Our friends at Raindance were celebrating 20 years as the leading venue for independent cinema in the UK and we created an integrated, multi-media campaign that included festival trailers, tv and radio ads and a web-based series. None of which could they afford. We did, however do some funny point-of-sale posters and a bit using messages stuffed into bullet casings.

03/29/2012

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01/11/2012

Scored the home page of Communication Arts website today.

ToursAbroad had a big idea (to combine travel to out-of-the-way places in China with master classes in photography) and a bigger problem (the young company had yet to run a tour). In an industry where repeat business and word-of-mouth are everything,...

01/05/2012

Happy New Year.
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12/24/2011

The Smuggles' Holiday Greeting.

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12/23/2011

That was then. This is now.
Judging from the recent flurry of inactivity at the Smugglers’ Inn communal desk, it would seem we have reached another holiday season. A few years back, Smugs initiated a tradition of sending flowers to representatives of companies that we had solicited business from in the previous year. Specifically, those gatekeepers, marketing managers and creative directors who had NOT hired us. Our card thanked these entities for allowing us so much time to come up with brilliant, unexpected advertising for their competitors. The response below was typical. “Ha! Thanks for the flowers. You made me laugh. I PROMISE you we’ll work together in 2011.” We congratulated ourselves on our ingenious use of reverse psychology and waited for the work to come in. We’re still waiting. At present, the number of $75 bouquets that we’ve converted to paying gigs stands at zero. As in zero. Not surprisingly, this year, we won’t be sending flowers to those who attempt to resist the Smugglers’ Inn Juggernaut. Rather, we will be making charitable donations on their behalf. Don’t get excited, we’re still the same petty, selfish people we blame our parents for becoming. The donations were for five bucks each and the charity is the Red Crescent. The Red Crescet is a disaster relief agency just like the Red Cross, except its area or service is the Middle East. Palestine, Syria, Yemen—all those places. Israel? No, we don’t think so. Curiously, our State Department and Department of Homeland Security take a keen interest in anyone who gives money to the Red Crescent. We won’t tell you if a donation was made in your name, but we do promise to wave to you should we encounter you in an airport as we run off to the next Smugglers’ Inn assignment. Being on a watch list really isn’t so bad, just allow an extra two hours when you go to the airport for the interrogation and cavity search. Peace on Earth! Good will to all! Smugglers’ Inn

10/24/2011

Smugglers' Inn is in Archive again. Tours Abroad China coordinates photography tours of China under the tutelage of a master photographer.

04/06/2011

04/06/2011

12/22/2010

In an attempt to keep up with the other, larger agencies in town, Smugglers' Inn gave free iPads to both Carol and Jarl. While the gesture was appreciated, both returned the iPads to the Apple Store and spent the money on pulltabs and pickled eggs at a bar in Wisconsin.

12/20/2010

Check this out. The Smugglers' (Jarl and Carol) have been busy for Ford and Team Detroit.

The 2011 Ford Explorer has been redesigned to be more like a crossover than a truck and the company has begun an extensive Internet campaign.

11/18/2010

Hey Smug's Fans! You can now follow our blog on Twitter via chenders48. Why you would want to is your problem.

11/18/2010

Whoever shares the Smugglers' Inn blog with the most friends will win a free Surf 'n' Turf (originally the One If By Land, Two if by Sea) dinner for two with a complimentary bottle of Blue Nun. Hurry! Deadline is whenever we feel like it.

“We knew we had to do something. The flowers are our way of saying, “Thanks for not hiring us,” says Jarl Olsen, chief creative officer and partner of Smugglers’ Inn. “I mean, if we would have been freelancing for these places, any one of them might have a couple of clever campaigns in CA instead of

11/09/2010

Reaches Out After Embarrassing Award Show Performance.

“We knew we had to do something. The flowers are our way of saying, “Thanks for not hiring us,” says Jarl Olsen, chief creative officer and partner of Smugglers’ Inn. “I mean, if we would have been freelancing for these places, any one of them might have a couple of clever campaigns in CA instead of