Category Archives: Marketing stuff

What will be the hot tech gift this holiday season?

After a somewhat encouraging Black Friday and ensuing holiday shopping weekend (up 6% over 2009) today is Cyber Monday and many feel this may be the biggest shopping day next to the last Saturday before Christmas (that’s December 18th this … Continue reading

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Yelp and Foursquare should go to the altar together

Being on the road again in mostly unfamiliar cities I have been using Yelp – http://www.yelp.com more and more. Enabled with GPS technology on my smartphone, Yelp allows me to search out the nearest coffee shops, wine bars, restaurants and … Continue reading

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Where have all the great advertising tag lines gone?

Even before I was firmly entrenched in the advertising and marketing business I always admired a good tag line. – 7up – The Uncola – Coke – It’s the real thing – DeBeers – A diamond is forever – United … Continue reading

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LinkedIn should be your first resource for learning about business people

Many people I talk to remark that they see me all over LinkedIn. I am always posting blogs, recommending people, making comments, asking and answering questions, etc. I find the time because using LinkedIn has become one of my most … Continue reading

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AOL’s finally making some big changes – but is it just whistling while walking through the internet graveyard?

An interesting story in this past Saturday’s NY Times – http://nyti.ms/b2RQFQ discussed the revamping of AOL’s website to give a greater emphasis to news created by AOL’s staff as well as original video clips. This appears to me that it … Continue reading

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!?*# Alex Bogusky – he just never got it

BTW I don’t even know the guy (and if you’ve never heard of him he was until recently the chief creative officer and partner in one of the hottest advertising shops in the business – Crispin Porter Bogusky). I’ve never … Continue reading

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Foursquare – is it on the road to nowhere?

I’ve been ‘using’ Foursquare’s location based application for about 9 months now. People ask me all the time WHY do I use Foursquare to let people know where I am at a given moment. My standard answer is that in … Continue reading

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Free Wi-Fi access – wouldn’t it be nice?

Since I will be traveling from Connecticut to New York more frequently now that we are opening a New York City office (Soho here we come!), the need for my being ‘connected’ has never been greater. Up until now I … Continue reading

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Will the Chilean miners now face an even greater challenge?

Now that the 33 men trapped in a mine in San Jose, Chile for 69 days have been rescued the world has breathed a collective sigh of relief. I watched much of the rescue yesterday both at my hotel and … Continue reading

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Does an agency that represents itself have a fool for a client?

Those that know me know that I hatched an idea almost 15 years ago to have people customize a ‘fake’ magazine cover that would help them celebrate a significant life event. At the time it was an idea that was … Continue reading

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