“Where do I start?”
“What is social media?”
“Will blogging help?”
“I’m lost!”
If you’re asking yourself these questions –even after years in business– you’re not alone.  My clients ask them every day in their search for the best ways to grow their businesses, reach their goals, and measure their results.
Chris Brogan has a great article entitled “If I […]

The Renegade Writer Blog is aimed at, you guessed it, writers, but today’s post on sexing up your e-mail subject lines to guarantee you get read can benefit everyone.  I find that an interesting subject line can up the open rate of an e-mail campaign by double digits.  Next time you bemoan the lack of […]

As marketing professionals, we see a TON of really, really bad business cards.  You know the ones:  they have VistaPrint logos all over them.  They list 20 phone numbers and no actual contact information.  Weird, mangled, or outdated imagery abounds.
We’re going to get a chance to evaluate business cards next week, both at the Boulder […]

Pepsi just revealed their new logo. A couple of comments on their new look. Some blogs I have read were trying to figure out why pepsi spent a million dollars on a logo that look quite similar to their diet pepsi logo from long ago. And they were also commenting on how the apple-inspired minimalist […]

Now that the playoffs are behind us for another season (no Rockies, sniff), I am reminded of the hell that was 2007’s baseball playoffs and the obtrusive, gigantic, mondo annoying ads for the seemingly soon-to-fail Frank TV.  (Why yes, that is a portrait of the lunatics at Bedlam to the right.)  Fast-forward one year and […]

We’ve been asked so many times in the last month what we recommend for clients in these uncertain financial times that the answer bears repeating:
Chill out!  Keep on marketing!
Yes, it’s somewhat self-serving to suggest that our clients continue doing the very activity we provide for a living, but the answer isn’t just a facile […]

We’re always looking to be more educated about what’s what and who’s who in the land of digital media.  Imagine our surprise when we heard of the Thin Air Summit, a two-day media extravaganza that promises loads of information, pointers toward the future, and the chance to mingle with other creative types.  Too bad we […]

As someone who has been inundated with requests for representation (?) and publicity for different causes, I was overjoyed to read the Open Letter to Fitness and Health Brands Pitching to Bloggers at Stephanie Quilao’s excellent Back in Skinny Jeans blog.  Stephanie lays it out honestly to brands who want her to cover their products…but […]

One of the most interesting facets of the financial meltdown has been watching the banks struggle to brand themselves as safe bets even as consumers rush in the doors to withdraw cash and stuff it in the mattress.
From mailers to full-blown marketing campaigns, banks are struggling to get a message of stability and calm in […]

TED has started releasing small talks, this one by Seth Godin