Ahh, the marketing engine of our times, the virtual town square, and well, your metaphor here.Here’s a very clever Weird Al Yankovic vid, a parody of a well-known Doors song brought up to modern times. (I did find that Al looks a lot like the...
Topics: craigslist, Videos, weird al yankovic

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Me? I’m “digitally distinct!” Woo-hoo. See … ?Means my Google Quotient, my personal online brand is well, distinct. I’m a major GQ contender. Wonderful, something else I fear to lose if I don’t work hard enough....
Topics: branding id, Occasional Rantings, online identity calculator, personal brand, reach

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I nearly fainted at the post office this morning. There, in my sparsely populated of late mail box, was something I hadn’t seen in ages.I used to see these things all the time. Hell, I even wrote and produced these things all the time. (Man, I miss.
Topics: aspen publishers, book marketing, direct mail, Just Thinking

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photo credit: rockmixerThis made me so mad.Here’s an excerpt from WSJ.com, What Won’t You Do for a Job? (I’ve bolded the salient points):“Consider William “Tommy” Rollins, a digital marketing analyst laid off when...
Topics: finding employment, Occasional Rantings, spec assignments, working for free, working on spec, working without pay

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Parody for a Friday afternoon …
Topics: advertising, general motors, gm, parody, video, Videos

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