If you haven’t heard or seen yet, well, Pepsi rebranded their logo. In the hopes of getting some big initial traction in this huge marketing campaign, Pepsi reached out to 25 “influential” bloggers by hand delivering three packages over the course of an hour. The first two packages contained Pepsi cans with past logo designs [...]
I read a great article this morning in The Wall Street Journal that’s worth reading: Twitter Goes Mainstream: A lot more people — and businesses — are finding new ways to tweet Yes, Twitter is creeping into the mainstream, slowly but surely…
I have recently been asked by different levels of executives, VPs to CEOs, from start-ups, small and mid size companies, about the pros of outsourcing their marketing and PR needs and what to look for when choosing a firm to work with. I am sure the current financial turbulence has caused this question to resurface [...]
Following Leslies’ great blog below on jetBlue, Dell, like jetBlue, are also being smart with their customers and mending their “bad” ways with a simple and clever idea: Dell’s IdeaStorm, Where Your Ideas Reign. Dell’s simple request: Post your ideas and tell us what products and services you like, what you don’t like. There are [...]
I realized the Internet, digital marketing and social media channels were going to play a big part in the Olympics this year, but I didn’t realize just how big. And what a fundamental shift from Athens 2004 to Beijing 2008! A great article in USA TODAY covers the arena and the players well: McDonald’s spent [...]
The Business Marketing Association of New York just announced the winners of its 2008 B2B ACE Awards, which recognizes the year’s top creative B2B campaigns and executions. With its roster of esteemed judges, the ACE Awards are considered to be one of the industry’s best creative awards, and this year set an all-time record, with [...]
We just got our July copy of “Deliver: A Magazine for Marketers” published by the United States Postal Service. This is one of my favorite magazines and I always look forward to receiving it. Delivermagazine.com is the companion website to the magazine, and is even more resourceful. Both always cover some aspect of direct mail [...]
This is new from MarketingSherpa. This neat little “Chart of the Week” pops into my inbox every Tuesday. Their goal is to bring you something useful and interesting in only 2 minutes by presenting a bite-sized piece of their research and lessons learned from it. Just to give you an idea of topics, here are [...]
Following Sandra’s blog on Twitter last week (see April 25), I have to concur that Twitter is becoming a powerful communication tool that’s being underestimated and shouldn’t be overlooked. Especially by corporations. I’ve been following the Comcast/Twitter customer satisfaction dissatisfaction story of Michael Arrington (from the influential and highly read blog, TechCrunch) who was one [...]
It’s getting more and more difficult to rise above the noise at tradeshows and do something compelling and different. So I love coming across great ideas for event marketing that do this and that work! Check out the cash cube money machines that are available to rent from Ideas4Events. These cash cubes come in different [...]