How Do I Get More Exposure?

How do I get my brand in front of more people? How do I create more awareness for my product? How can I tell more people about my services?

I’ve been hearing these questions more and more as of late and whenever I get asked I always reply the same way.

You don’t.

Trying to put “your brand” in front of more people is a bad business strategy unless you’re Wal-Mart (the proverbial average products for everyone).  It’s a fact, most people don’t care about your brand and by trying to put your product in front of more people you are just going to piss off more people.


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The Best Super Bowl Commercials of 2011

Listed below are the best Super Bowl ads of 2011.  I also included the Google search results (from last night and this morning) to get a marginal understanding of which ads are being talked about more than others. I searched every brand with “2011 superbowl ads” in the search criteria. EXAMPLE: “Budweiser 2011 super bowl ads” If a commercial didn’t make this list let’s just say they don’t consider me their target audience.

The Epic Marketing Battle


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Stats You Didn’t Know About The Marketing Industry

From the Ad Age Annual 2011 report from the Ad Age DataCenter

In January of 2009 Ad Agency revenue experienced it’s sharpest decline since Ad Age starting recording agency revenue in 1944.

In 2010 the Internet overtook Newspapers as the number two ad medium behind television.

US Ad agency’s bottomed out at a 16 year low for employment in January of 2009, in 2010 agency’s added 9,200 jobs.

The Second Bridging the Media Gap Award

Unexpectedtv.comThe ‘Bridging the Media Gap’ award goes to organizations that are utilizing online media in conjunction with their traditional media campaigns.

Our first winner was Domino’s Pizza with the “Show Us Your Pizza.com” television commercial.

The Second Bridging the Gap Media Award goes to:

Unexpected TV.com for a billboard advertisement in Regina that is just a URL and a picture.  Normally I still wouldn’t look up a site that I saw on a billboard, but a banner ad on a local site displayed the same picture.  It was fate, I had to see what Unexpected TV.com was.

It’s a Travel Manitoba initiative featuring and assortment of videos on places in Manitoba you rarely get to see, and I think it’s smart.  It allows the viewer to see a completely different side of Manitoba, focusing on the extraordinary vacationing destination.  I even took it a step further to see how easy it would be to book a vacation in one of these exotics Manitoba getaways featured in the videos on the site (I didn’t actually book one) but the process to do so was quite simple.

Congratulations Travel Manitoba, you look good!


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Bridging the Media Gap Award

Bridging the gap between traditional and online media award

This week’s winner is: Dominos Pizza

A Domino’s Pizza commercial advertising their “Show us Your Pizza.com” campaign on Television is a great way to get influence people to get involved with a brand online.  What not a better way to build trust in your product by challenging people to buy it and take a picture of how great it looks.  Offer prize money for the best pictures and you have a recipe for this weeks bridging the gap award.

Congratulations Dominos, what a neat idea for a promotion!

Have a great example of a company bridging the gap between online and traditional media?  Send it my way!  You may have next weeks winner…


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