Scrabble’s Digital Dirt Road
I love Scrabble. My husband loves Scrabble. We own five or six Scrabble games: one deluxe edition, the Cubs edition, a travel version, a plain old regular version, etc. A few years ago, people were playing a Scrabble-ish  game, "Scrabulous," like mad on Facebook....
Fun on a Friday
Check out this one minute infographic video from some Vancouver Film School students. Everything you ever wanted to know about kissing! I should have posted this last Friday - in advance of Valentine's Day - but it's still Valentine's Week - so enjoy!...
I’m About to Bitch About Toyota Again (UPDATE: Or Maybe Not)
Good grief. Who is in charge of their PR over there? Never mind that their reputation went from 60 to 0 in nothing flat because of their vehicles' sudden acceleration problem. Now someone at Toyota has decided that the best way to combat the negative PR is to pay a...
Can You Trust Search Engine Results?
Can you trust those search engine results? When you type in "best restaurants" and your city name, are you really getting the best ones? After all, marketers (including us) work hard to get their clients' businesses listed higher in the search rankings. There are...
Fun on a Friday – Great Moments in Texting History
Mashable is up with some funny little cartoons on how history would be different if we'd had texting way back when. A sampling:
Listening to Pandora Yet? (Fun on a Friday)
Have you tried Pandora yet? Pandora is an Internet music station that figures out what kind of music you like and serves you up more of it. They call it the music genome project. As I understand it, they analyze the rhythm, beats, instrumentation, etc., of artists...
Do You Yelp?
One of the most misunderstood social networking sites is Yelp! Is it a social network, a location-based check-in game, or a review site? Well, the answer is “Yes†to all three. Yelp! Is designed to give users the experience of a social network geared at connecting...
Good News for the Economy
Advertising is usually one of the first things businesses cut during a recession and one of the last things they bring back. So it is encouraging to see that overall ad spend was up 8.7% in 3rd quarter 2010. It wasn't just the Fortune 1,000 driving the growth, either;...
Facebook By the Numbers
Social media isn't for every business. But as more and more people log on to Facebook, tweet out every little thing, and broadcast their location with Foursquare, social media is increasingly becoming an important part of the marketing mix for businesses, large and...
I Love my Android
I finally got rid of my piece-of-crap Palm Pre (sorry, Palm, I really, really tried to like you) and am working it with the Samsung Epic 4G with Sprint. It's one of the many Android phones out there and can I just say that I feel like I finally got out of that crappy...
What’s Facebook Worth Anyway?
It's an interesting question and certainly varies depending on your perspective. Goldman Sachs thinks Facebook is worth $50 billion. Financial blogger Barry Ritholtz has doubts about Facebook's ability to monetize its user base: If and when Facebook goes public, they...
The Most Important Thing You Can Do For Your Business Part II
Yesterday, we defined positioning and explained why it's critical for your business. It is probably the most important thing you can do to grow your business. In fact, is the foundation upon which all your marketing and business development efforts are built. Still...