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Entries for the ‘Marketing’ Category

Social Media Meet Up and More Great Ideas

I attended my second Social Media Meet-Up tonight, it was help down at the Black Diamond Digital Office Lounge. It was a good turn out with a few familiar faces and a few new faces. What more could you ask for? Well, I will tell you, new great ideas and I had several tonight, thanks [...]

End of the Year and Social Media is Still the Buzz

We are coming to the end of 2008 and all the buzz is still on Social Media. I have mentioned a number of the mainstream Social Media outlets here on my blog, Twitter, Wordpress, Facebook, you know, the usual suspects. This morning I was reading over my normal news feeds, emails, twitter updates and comments [...]

After reading this you will love your SPAM too.

Last night after posting my blog I was striken with inspiration. As many of you know, I am very strange in that I read all of my spam email and all of my junk mail that I get in my mail box for the house. So last night while reading my junk box of my [...]

Let’s gather ’round the carcass of the old deflated beast

This is the opening lyric to Bad Religion’s “Positive Aspect of Negative Thinking” off of their 1990 album Against the Grain.
Today reading about the factory workers in Chicago protesting the loss of their jobs, I really started wondering if this is the next evolution in the way we see businesses competeing in the global market [...]

The death of the slogan

Last night I made a blog post about Greasecar.com and their use of a very poor slogan. After that we ordering a pizza and I started reading my newest issue of FastCompany. In this issue there is an article from Dan Heath and Chip Heath about the slogan, entitled “Kill the Slogans Dead”. Dan and [...]

Logo Lounge and 1936 Typography

Today while I was working on one of our client’s new websites and in between Twitter posts and IM’s, I came up with an idea for a new project. Don’t worry you will all get a glimpse of it soon. With this new idea I needed to come up with a new logo and I [...]

Toys, Twitter and Today’s Advertising

All I have to do is post this photo and many of you are going to go crazy remembering all the great things you have gotten for the holidays over the years. Are you ready?

Ok to be honest I just wanted Jason’s ADD to really kick in tonight. (you’re welcome Jason!) This is a photo [...]

End of 2008 – Time for 30 Day Blog Challenge part 2

I am down to the last few minutes here of day one of a second 30 Day Blog Challenge. This time it shouldn’t be as difficult to accomplish one post a day for 30 days since I have no travel plans this month. So here we go…
This past weekend I helped my brother clean out [...]

Best Marketing Stunts Ever?

This morning there was an article I saw on FastCompany.com called The 10 Best Marketing Stunts Ever!
Here was their list and if the stunt resulted positively or negatively:
1. Aqua Teen Hunger Force – The Boston Bomb Scare – Negative
2. Nathan’s Doc-Approved Dogs – Positive
3. Last Days of Disco – Chicago White Sox “Disco Demolition Night” [...]

Is Myspace an out of date affiliate marketing tool?

I wanted to continue my thoughts on out-of-date affiliate marketing practices. Earlier tonight, I helped my Sister-In-Law set up a new Myspace profile for one of her friends. This got me thinking that I haven’t even looked at my Myspace page in months, so I went and signed in.
Myspace has had its ups and downs, [...]