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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 [...]

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 [...]

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Is Myspace an out of date affiliate marketing tool?

I wanted to continue my thoughts on out-of-date affiliate marketing practices.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, [...]

Big Brother, 1984, and Distractions

I have been a student of Orwellian Theory for a very long time. I write about it a lot over at Feeding The Blind. Yesterday I wrote a post about the economic down fall that the United States could be facing in the next few months. Yet today I have caught a sort of conspiracy [...]

$700 Billion Dollars

It has been a crazy day to watch the American Stock Market literally start to fall apart. Having lost my job earlier this year I know first hand how bad the economy is getting and I hope we can find a way to turn it around soon. I have been thinking about how bad things [...]

Creating need out of thin air

Awhile back I purchased a collection of old tv commercials from the 50’s and 60’s. It is a great set of very vintage material that not only marks the times, but touches on just about every stereo type we live buy today. A good number of the commercials would be controversial by today’s standards based [...]

Back in Vegas and ready to get back to blogging

Well if there are any of you following my blog, I was unable to post a blog a day while I was in Wyoming visiting my parents. I was able to set up a wireless network for my parents house and after some very interesting set up able to post one quick blog yesterday. But [...]