Look – up in the sky. It’s a bird, it’s a plane. No, it’s a corporate logo! An Alabama entrepreneur and former musician has taken product placement to new “heights.” Francisco Guerra has invented a cloud machine that creates clouds in the shape of corporate logos, then floats them off into the sky. His “Flogos” […]
Yearly Archives: 2008
Did you let a good one get away?
Seth reminds us of the first rule of b2b selling: “If it gets to the RFP (Request for Proposals) stage, you lost.” In other words, you should already have dazzled the prospect with your knowledge and ideas and closed the deal — long before it ever reached that point. As Godin put it: “The RFP […]
Info-marketing for attorneys
Lawyers are the latest professionals to use their written work as marketing tools to attract clients. JD Supra is a Web site that gives consumers legal information while helping lawyers raise their profile. The site hosts its members’ articles, court papers, legal briefs and other tidbits of their craft. Along with each document is a […]
Free Credit Report: deceptive advertising?
“What the headline giveth, the small print taketh away,” grumbles the old advertising cynic. Sad to say it’s true, even in this era of supposed transparency. Take the TV ads for FreeCreditReport.com. A young guy dressed like a pirate, singing (OK, lip-syncing) a catchy little tune about he’s stuck in this nowhere job because his […]
Craigslist CEO reveals secret profit strategy
Business can be a lot simpler than the consultants and MBAs claim. Craigslist, for example, just listens to its customers, then gives them what they want. No wonder they’ve been profitable since day one. Wait, that can’t be all there is to it, can it? It must be more complicated than that. Nope, not according […]
Which costs more, pizza or porn(.com)?
Well, duh. Porn, of course. Well, at least it costs more if you want it as your Web domain. Yahoo’s Christopher Null reports that domain name pizza.com just sold for a cool $2.6 million — a lot of dough. (Sorry.) But it didn’t even crack the top ten most expensive domain names ever sold. The […]
Can squiggles on a whiteboard define your company? Ask UPS.
Am I the only one who gets mesmerized by those ultra-simple UPS commercials? Apparently not, according to Slate’s Seth Stephenson, who gives a great behind-the-scenes look at those ads here. (You can watch the whole series of UPS spots here.) You can’t take your eyes off them. There’s something about all that white space, and […]