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What do Keg Party’s and Great Products Have in Common?

Keg PartyYou want to share the experience.

When you hear someone is having a keg party the host of it does not have to try to get you to come. She doesn’t have to sell you on the party, she doesn’t have to advertise to get people to come. The keg sells the party.  No one wants to miss a Keg party.

Great products are much like keg parties–you want to tell others about them. They are not your regular products; they are different in some special way. Clever advertising doesn’t need to be used to sell them.  A large part of your budget doesn’t need to go towards “branding”.


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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.

% off or $ amount off, which is better?

Which is better?  20% off or $15 off.  I’ve heard arguments for both but is it better to give a percentage off or a dollar amount off, please let me know in the comments below (if you comment you’ll get a tweet from me and if it is good enough a prize!)


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