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Thanks for stopping by! Hey, why don't you do what all the cool kids are doing and subscribe to my RSS feed? You know you want to, so go ahead, be bad, be very very bad... :) Thanks. I have been blogging for years, but my blogs have always been either [...]

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The problem with innovation is that an innovator usually has to be someone who is first to try something before anyone else. If the innovator tries something and it works, that’s when they are usually labeled an innovator. Though if you try something first and fail, you tend to be called more not [...]

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Over the weekend, I was trying to catchup on some articles and blog posts that I missed during the week. One thing led to another and I was rereading some articles on a number of the most recent blog debacles that included Sony and Walmart. I had written several articles on Sony’s mess [...]

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While I was trying to get some work done on Saturday, I was watching the NFL playoffs. During a commercial break, there was a commercial for GMC where they were running a contest and the winner would receive tickets to the Superbowl and a new truck. All I had to do for a [...]

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I wrote a story last week about Dove’s recently launched viral play following their hugely successful viral video - Evolution. For this campaign, they are allowing users to edit and create their own video and the winner gets the commercial aired during the Academy Awards. When I looked into this further, I read [...]

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This morning I was on YouTube when I saw an ad for Dove about a contest they are holding which allows users to create their own commercial and the winners’ commercial will be aired during the Academy Awards. Dove has had some great success recently with their Evolution video that I thought was very [...]

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Wow, is that a eye catching, attention grabbing headline or what? Geez, I guess I have to back up that fabulous headline with some good writing. Let’s give it a shot. For years now, you have read and seen how the TV networks ratings keep dropping and they are continually losing market share. [...]

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I have had a Yahoo! email address since 1998 or somewhere around there. I have always used Yahoo as my primary email address. It has always been convenient, easy to use, reliable and since it is web based, I can sign in to it anywhere. Recently Yahoo! put a link on their mail page asking [...]

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Honda’s robot the Asimo was caught trying to get up some stairs and I am sorry to report that he just did not make it. Keep your chin up buddy, I have done the exact same thing many times. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VTlV0Y5yAww What’s worse is that Wieden + Kennedy has just come out with a new commercial for Asimo [...]

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A piece of paper flew my desk today that happened to catch my eye. It was a write up for a client where the author had pulled a stat that he got from McKinsey that said that an estimated 80-85% of the whole economy are influenced by someone they know or trust telling them about [...]

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