Archive for June 2007
Office Gifts – Corporate Sales Thank Yous
Posted by: theprotagonist5 on: June 27, 2007
I have worked in corporate environments for the better part of the past 10 years and I can honestly say that nothing gets workers excited like free stuff. Likewise for sales customers, account contacts and PR relationships. Free stuff is the glue that binds us all together. Need your sales team to pick up the [...]
Email Marketing Tips
Posted by: theprotagonist5 on: June 27, 2007
I hate that every email marketing article is totally ambiguous and proves nothing, or focuses on things like where each color sits on the page and the use of “and” instead of “or”. Just meaningless things that have no real practical application in the situations most of us are in. Here are some real marketing tips for [...]
Facebook, MySpace and Class Systems
Posted by: theprotagonist5 on: June 27, 2007
The marketing news this morning is covered by articles about a small informal study that said that Facebook and MySpace are very different sites with very different demographics despite both being social networking sites that are popular with the 15-25 age crowd. They say through their informal polling and surveys, they found that MySpace users [...]
Car Marketing & Sales Tactics
Posted by: theprotagonist5 on: June 26, 2007
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I am starting my search for a new car and as usual I am appaled at the sales and marketing tactics that dealers use to sell cars. And I AM a marketer. How offensive do you have to be to offend a marketer with deceptive and manipulative sales tactics??? I went and drove a Prius [...]
Want to become a writer?
Posted by: theprotagonist5 on: June 26, 2007
I know I have thought that writing a book in my spare time that could sell and become an extra source of income and possibly a career change later on. But its a daunting task if you have never written anything as long as a book before and you may be procrastinating because of that. [...]
LOL Cats
Posted by: theprotagonist5 on: June 26, 2007
I have discovered the joy of LOL cats. One of my friends forwarded me the link about a month ago and it seems to be everywhere now. The rate at which trends travel seems to get faster and faster as more people are online and are sharing information. It is also a testament to the [...]
The Police – concert memories of the 80’s
Posted by: theprotagonist5 on: June 25, 2007
I am a bit older than most of the people who blog…I remember the first time that The Police were popular (before Sting was just Sting on his own) and I am excited that they have decided to get the band back together and go out on tour again. It seems perfectly fitting since everything 80’s [...]
Banner Ads – cost effective or crap?
Posted by: theprotagonist5 on: June 25, 2007
In the beginning of the internet advertising era, banners were the only kind of ad you could buy. So if you wanted to advertise on the net, you had to buy them. Now there are banners, intersicials, text ads, contextual and behavioral targeting, email marketing, prefered placement and search engines all competing for those dollars. [...]
Buyout Blitz
Posted by: theprotagonist5 on: June 25, 2007
The rate at which online and web 2.0 companies are being bought and absorbed into large companies is unbelievable. The big news is always who Google is aquiring, (especially when they bought double click) but there is news that another ad serving company was bought today. Bluestreak sold off its ad serving business to Aegis. [...]
Bariatric Surgery & Weight Loss Popularity
Posted by: theprotagonist5 on: June 24, 2007
- In: health| home
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It is true that America has a country wide weight problem. More people are morbidly obese and dangerously overweight than ever before. Some estimates say it is as many as 30% of the U.S. population. With weight out of control to epic proportions like that it is no suprise that Bariatric Surgery is getting more and [...]
Word of the year 2007: Sustainability
Posted by: theprotagonist5 on: June 24, 2007
- In: cars| health| home
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I firmly believe that when all the 2007 year in review magazines and TV shows come out in December that the word of they year this year will be sustainability. Last year it was Truthiness and the year before it was Blog. But I think it has been popular in what people have been writing [...]
Weekend Break
Posted by: theprotagonist5 on: June 22, 2007
I love marketing and the advertising world but I need nothing right now more than a weekend away from it. Just a quick break to catch up with all the things I have been putting off in favor of work. But I am sure it won’t be a cake walk. This weekend in Chicago there [...]
Diet Sites Online
Posted by: theprotagonist5 on: June 21, 2007
I have seen the internet take just about every offline process or service and start a way for you to do the same thing online. Diet sites are no different. CalorieKing.com and Weight Watchers are both huge sites that try to help you manage your diet with food logs, goal settings for weight, exercise plans and [...]
Social Network Marketing
Posted by: theprotagonist5 on: June 21, 2007
Social networks like Flickr, MySpace and Facebook have been all the rage in the past few years online. They create a unique experience where people not only post information about themeslves and the topics they like, they also can interact, tag cntent with keywords, share comments on ideas, link to people to create a network [...]
Living room sofas and furniture
Posted by: theprotagonist5 on: June 21, 2007
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I am looking to sell my condo and move into the city soon and the more I look at new condos and townhomes, the more I want to get rid of my living room furniture. I got it cheap second hand/used when I first moved in and it was a step up from a futon, [...]
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