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Fashion statement

This photo in from Penny, our graphic designer– How would you market this product?

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Black and White and Seen All Over

Is this a joke?  Perhaps a skit from Saturday Night Live in, say, 1952?  Or a really great attempt at viral marketing? It’s an actual commercial for a furniture store in North Carolina, where apparently, they just received the telegraph from the Pony Express that the Civil War is over. “For a while, we couldn’t do anything but answer the phone.…

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Has Social Networking Gone to the Dogs?

It was only a matter of time.  In this dog-eat dog world, there’s now a social networking site called Dogster for people who think their dogs are the cats meow. The twist? The profiles are “written by” the pups, who befriend other “pup pals” nationwide.  Since many dog owners treat their pets like people, pooch profiles shouldn’t be shocking. On Dogster, owners create pages for man’s…

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Defining the demographic

Google is refining AdSense. The goal: more relevance, and more mutual benefit (for advertisers and users). Note, in the third paragraph, how Google (like Facebook) identifies affinity groups, which allows businesses/groups/organizations to market accordingly. They look at how people use their services, and then place ads accordingly. Traditional print media like your fading friendly neighborhood newspaper, by contrast, make assumptions…

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Marketing then… and now

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The Best Job in the World – Applications now closed

In what is chalking up to be one of my favorite viral campaigns, the Australian tourism board put out a job application for a “Caretaker of the Islands of the Great Barrier Reef” aka “The Best Job in the World.” Applications closed yesterday and 34,000 applicants from 200 countries submitted applications. The main job description is “explore and report back.”…

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