Monthly Archives: November 2012

Small Business Saturday – Shop Small | americanexpress.com

Posted on November 19, 2012 by lmehit | Leave a comment

What is Small Business Saturday®?

Small Business Saturday is a day for everyone — from the business owners who create jobs to the customers who buy locally — to support small businesses that invigorate the economy and keep communities thriving.

It began in 2010 when American Express founded Small Business Saturday to help small businesses get more exposure during one of the biggest shopping weekends of the year. Last year, over 100 million people came out to shop at independently-owned small businesses on the day. Now, in its third year, Small Business Saturday will be even bigger.

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Tagged Black Friday, Cyber Monday, Shop Small, shop your community, small business, Small Business Saturday, small businesses

House Explodes With Audio-Visual Holiday Spectacular | Adrants

Posted on November 19, 2012 by lmehit | Leave a comment

Previously published in 2005 but worth another look every year around this time.

This has absolutely nothing to do with advertising unless, of course, this person starts stringing lights for marketers (which he ultimately did…so we guess it does now). You have to marvel at the relentless dedication and months of preparation something like this requires.

This isn’t just your average Holiday house lighting. It’s a full blown light and audio spectacular. The music is Trans-Siberian Orchestra’s “Wizards in Winter” and the lighting spectacular was created by Carson Williams, an electrical engineer for Cincinnati Bell Technology. Give it a watch. It’s a classic. And a viral sensation.

You have got to see this!.

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Tagged christmas lights, Cincinnati Bell Technology, holiday house lighting, Wizards in Winter

Facebook and Yahoo! NOT forming strategic alliance | VentureBeat.com

Posted on November 19, 2012 by lmehit | Leave a comment

[Update] Rumor has it the rumors are wrong. While Facebook and Yahoo! may work together on certain projects and collaborations, a search alliance is not likely to be one of them in the near future.

Female executive powerhouses Marissa Mayer and Sheryl Sandburg may be forging an alliance between their two companies.

UK newspaper The Sunday Telegraph reported that Mayer, who is the CEO of Yahoo! and Sandberg, the COO of Facebook, are discussing ways the they can work together to conquer the internet. There is already some overlap between Yahoo! and Facebook, but according to unnamed sources, “board members expect the talks to lead to much more substantial collaboration based around web-based search.”

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Tagged alliance, collaboration, Facebook, Marissa Mayer, Sheryl Sandburg, Yahoo

Is bracing for impact really helpful in an airline crash? | Air & Space Magazine

Posted on November 19, 2012 by lmehit | Leave a comment

Or is it just meant to make us feel like we’re doing something?

Spending weeks (if not months) reading about Chesley “Sully” Sullenberger’s heroic landing of US Airways Flight 1549 in the Hudson River in January 2009 led the Air & Space copy chief to wonder: “When an airplane is about to make a bad landing and the pilot tells passengers ‘Brace for impact,’ does that instruction really help? Could it actually hurt? Is it just a placebo to make the passengers feel like they’re doing something?”

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Tagged airline crash, airline passengers, airplane, brace for impact, hudson river, transportation, US Airways Flight 1549

4 things marketers can learn from the Papa John’s spam lawsuit | Econsultancy

Posted on November 19, 2012 by lmehit | Leave a comment

How much does it cost to send a text message?

It’s often less than a cent if you’re a marketer sending in bulk, but U.S. pizza chain Papa John’s could be forced to pay $1,500 a pop for 500,000 text messages its franchisees sent in 2010.

A class action lawsuit alleges that the chain’s franchisees, though a third party text messaging service, sent promotional ads to consumers without their permission in violation of a 1991 law. The attorneys for the plaintiffs in the case are asking for $250m in damages, but a jury could award triple that amount if it decides that Papa John’s willfully violated the law.

While it remains to be seen just how likely an eight-figure verdict is, and it would seem that there’s a decent chance the class action will be settled before the matter is put in the hands of a jury, Papa John’s plight provides several good lessons for other marketers using SMS to reach consumers.

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Tagged advertising, business, class action lawsuit, Consumers, lawsuit, marketing, Papa John's Pizza, pizza chain, spam, text message

Spotify For Magazines Comes To The US | PSFK.com

Posted on November 19, 2012 by lmehit | Leave a comment

Paris-based startup, LeKiosk, has taken the concept of a physical newsstand and transferred it online. Offering a variety of publishers across genres, ‘a Spotify of the magazine world’ if you will, they have already been touted as the top Apple app for 2011. “The world’s first 3-D newsstand” is designed to offer users the chance to peruse content in a visual and simplified manner, eliminating ownership of physical versions yet still offering the chance to save the content. The UK version of the app actually provides a version of a British-style newsstand with a virtual way to scroll through available titles in a simulated version of the real life experience

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Tagged LeKiosk, magazines, newsstand, Paris, Spotify

Adam Lomax Answers Funding Questions | Mike The Focus Coach

Posted on November 14, 2012 by CBPS | Leave a comment

Our friend Adam Lomax appeared on ‘Mike The Focus Coach”s web show. Check it out!

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Tagged banks, factoring, financing, money

How to Know If You’re Involved in The Petraeus Scandal | Andy Borowitz

Posted on November 14, 2012 by CBPS | Leave a comment

WASHINGTON (The Borowitz Report)—In response to a high volume of panicked phone calls from the general public, the C.I.A. has published a new informational brochure entitled “How to Tell if You’re Involved in the Petraeus Scandal.”

The C.I.A. rushed to produce the brochure after it became clear that as many as one in three Americans may have some involvement in the Petraeus affair.

And with the scandal widening every day, “a lot of average folks out there are worried that they might somehow be involved in it without knowing,” says Carol Foyler, director of the C.I.A.’s public-information office. “This booklet should clear up a lot misunderstandings.”

The booklet includes a “simple, user-friendly checklist” that should help people determine whether they are at risk for being implicated in the scandal, she says.

“Have you ever met David Petraeus? Have you ever received and/or sent shirtless photos of an F.B.I. agent? Have you ever exchanged e-mails with Jill Kelley? Under five thousand pages of e-mails and you’re probably O.K., but anywhere between ten thousand and fifteen thousand pages of e-mails could potentially mean you’re involved in some way,” she says.

Defense Secretary Leon Panetta said today that he expected the Petraeus scandal to wind down by early 2015 but would not commit to an official timetable.

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Liberty, Undeterred | El Cipayo

Posted on November 13, 2012 by CBPS | Leave a comment

To minimize coverage of an anti government protest in Argentina, the government banned access to the airspace around the event to limit images that could lead a viewer to estimate the size of the crowd, or the actions of the authorities.