I well remember when a guy I was working with started talking about doing promotional videos with his cell phone and wound up with thousands of dollars of cameras, tripods, lights, microphones, lenses… I’m trying to avoid doing that. I have, however, decided I needed to be doing videos to promote Nectar Bridge, and also […]
Playing with Premiere Pro Read Post »
Not sure what to call it – phone or phablet? But it’s going to have to go just about wherever I go for the next 2 years, at least… Pictured here: my outgoing iPhone 5 (early 2013 vintage) and new iPhone 6S+, both entombed in Otterbox Defender cases. My iPad is shown for an additional
iPhone 6S+, or, iPad Micro Read Post »
In the spirit of this series on LinkedIn, I offer you a tale of a five month hiatus from the family business I worked in when I was younger. For years, a marketing professor who had acted as sort of a mentor to me when I was in school had been encouraging me to apply
My Best Mistake: Taking Someone’s Word on Taking a Job Read Post »
I hate to admit it, but after ten years in e-commerce I very nearly fell for a message similar to this a few months ago. It’s a slightly slicker variation on the various e-mail schemes that are out there, mainly distinguished by asking for something specific that the company I work for sells (custom imprinted
The E-Mail Scam That’s Alive and Well Read Post »
I’m a poet and don’t know it; the faster I try to write something the more likely it is to have an internal rhyme in it. Or maybe I’m a rapper in another life. Anyway, Crystal King just mentioned an article in a tweet about how Yelp may be extorting customers with threats about bad
Pay-to-play – make the bad reviews go away Read Post »
Tony Rubleski spoke to about 20-30 people yesterday at the Prattville Chamber. I get to hear a number of gurus, and I was impressed with his approach. He compared himself to Forrest Gump a number of times (and no, he’s not a southerner; he’s from Michigan.). My big takeaway from it is I’m still not
Tony Rubleski yesterday Read Post »
The Prattville Chamber is sponsoring a seminar by Tony Rubleski TODAY, and there are seats available, last I heard. What’s funny is he is able to do this seminar (at this price) because he’s already in town doing a (much more expensive) seminar for another group, and THAT seminar is sold out. Granted, this is going
Tony Rubleski at Prattville Chamber today Read Post »
So the Brains on Fire Blog has a post about how they don’t respond to RFPs as an agency (with the exception of “unless we have the inside track or we write them” (which is really no exception at all). Good for them, and I mostly agree. At our company, we do some times respond
Does one ever get work unless the deck is stacked? Read Post »
What can trying to cash in on travel coupons teach us about perishable commodities? Not much if you’re depending on night auditor types, I suppose. I just drove over to Tuscaloosa. For the benefit of my out-of-state fans, the trip from the Montgomery area to Tuscaloosa is single-handedly responsible for the preponderance of Auburn fans
Travel blog update Read Post »
Perhaps nothing illustrates old-school marketing like old cigarette commercials. James Lileks posits that irony as we know it today didn’t exist in the culture of this period. How else would the audience sit still for this kind of earnestness? About cigarettes? Whatever the state of irony in those days, the public attitude about cigarettes was certainly different. People