Casual Fridays

Some dreams are lived. Some die. Others change.
For almost two years, I’ve been the creative director at Beyond Marketing & Advertising. I started that endeavor with high expectations for what I could accomplish and what we could create as a company. Some of those expectations were met, others were not. […]

A friend of mine was considering a position as pastor of a church. The church is an hour or so away. He declined the position because of the distance. My wife said the church probably would want someone who lived in their community anyway.
She’s right. Not only is proximity an issue, […]

Great article by Guy Kawasaki explaining Lois Kelley’s Nine Best Story Lines for Marketing.
I would probably add one more story line… Leaving Ruin. These are stories of the pheonix rising from the ashes. How a person, group or organization survived certain peril. How they turned the ship around when all seemed […]

As a fun little riff, I thought I’d share with you a variety of snapshots from my cell phone and a few thoughts on each:

This is called a Whisper Phone. Our daughter’s elementary school teacher showed it to us at a parent/teacher conference. Children use the whisper phone so they can hear themselves […]

If you ever wanted to create your own Star Wars movie, now’s your chance… kinda.
In celebration of their 30th Anniversary, Star Wars has unveiled mashup.starwars.com.  It contains about 250 clips and an online editor, allowing fans to mix and match clips together… creating various scenarios.
It’s not perfect, so you have to use your imagination quite […]

Here are a few tidbits from my presentation yesterday. I spent most of my blog time (and more) preparing to speak at Entrepreneur’s Day, so this might be my only post this week.
The Marketing Proverb

If this is a marketing proverb, what is the moral?

or, some ad agencies prefer to

…simply entertain.
Do you ask this […]

I was talking with a friend yesterday and he mentioned how his real estate tours website uses technology not recommended by the experts. He should be using video-streaming servers and paying thousands of dollars a month in hosting. They told him his technology wouldn’t work… but it does.
I used to be the marketing […]

I just got this email from Staples today.  My wife and I are trying to organize our home office, so I thought I would foward it to her.  There’s no “forward to a friend” button.  I could forward the email myself, but these HTML emails never look right when I send them.
There was link to […]

I was recently reading about the new Apple Mac Pro computers on digg. What’s most interesting is the reaction Apple gets from any announcement. Apple fans usually love it. Apple haters hate it (go figure). Reading their comments on digg is not for the faint of heart.
Why does Apple alienate these […]

Nearly 2.5 million views in two weeks.
I can’t stop playing this video.
I think the beauty of it is how a big, polished production doesn’t get in the way of the even bigger idea.
The music’s pretty good too.

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