Day before yesterday I somehow stumbled across this excellent advertisement for an awareness campaign about the situation of Reporters in Cuba from an organization called Reporters Without Borders. The title of this Ad, where I saw it, was Reporters in Cuba and it looked more of a puzzle rather than an ad as I didn’t [...] [...more]
In lawsuit obsessed America, it isn’t unusual to hear about wacky lawsuits where someone sued somebody for really odd reasons. A few days ago, I came across a news story about Microsoft suing this college kid at Kent State university for causing irreparable injury to its business reputation and goodwill by selling the ‘unopened’ Microsoft [...] [...more]
I am active at various marketing discussion forums and one question which people often ask is how they should submit their sites to search engines. I often tell them that they are asking the wrong question. Instead, they should ask if submitting their site to a search engine is worth the effort. Search engine submission [...] [...more]
First, about the chocolates. Yesterday a friend of mine linked me to a really interesting post on the blog of Tom Coates. It was about a business card made of chocolate that he had received. Interesting, isn’t it? Even I found it cool. In fact, so cool that I spammed this link to everyone on [...] [...more]
Seth never fails to amaze me with his wisdom. Today he has made a post — How to be lied to — on his blog in which he says that the answers you get from your target / prospect depends on how you ask those questions. Say, you ask questions like : “Hi, welcome to [...] [...more]
Here’s an interesting tip that a good friend of mine Rex from CruiseLineForums.com posted on one of his blogs. Hiring a professional design agency for your branding or design work can be expensive. No doubt the price is there because these agencies hire some of finest talent out there who know what they are doing. [...] [...more]
So you are in talks with a venture capitalist to fund your dream venture? But wait, most venture capitalists are in a habit of doing a twisted talk i.e. what they are saying may not be what they really mean. Guy Kawasaki has come up with a really interesting list of 10 things which venture [...] [...more]
The headline, as you can read, says : “Come in and get a free cookie with your Office Depot receipt.” The fine print : with the purchase of a combo meal. Now that’s an instant turn off for most people, including John Jantsch who blogged first about it on Duct Tape Marketing Blog. Folks, here’s [...] [...more]
So you have the website and the traffic. Now what? Place ads on it to make some extra cash! Not so fast cowboy*, we have a few things to consider first. [...more]
Silicon.com is carrying this news story about two scam artists who duped people who had registered names with a certain domain registrar by getting their personal information from their Whois listings and telling them that they must pay a fee or risk losing their domain. Two points to be noted here : 1. The registrar [...] [...more]