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VeggieTales: Faith + Clean Sense of Humor sells OR Marketing Lesson 101

June 22, 2009 marketing at work

Ah, VeggieTales. After more than a decade, I am still marveled at their success. I am sure a lot of people watching their explosive success, have banged their heads against the wall, wailing, “Why didn’t I think of that?” Since 2006, the animated veggies (with very expressive eyes and mouths since they have no limbs!) [...]

Tagged as: photo, veggie tales

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Red Bull milk shake? Just seems wrong…

May 23, 2009 a picture is worth a thousand words

Tagged as: food, is it me, photo

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Speaking of tourist trap, how about let’s just forgo all pretenses, and admit that this is all for commercialism

March 30, 2009 marketing at work

and souvenir shopping is the main reason why you are all here? The exhibit of the Emperor Sedan is now directly inside this souvenir shop. Pay and you get to have a picture taken with it, up close and personal. Pay more you get to move to the left side, where you can dress up [...]

Tagged as: china, forbidden city, is it me, photo, tourist trap

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Life seen thru a Kinder: Subway is now a form of measurement

March 3, 2009 marketing at work

Somebody should give the gal or guy who is in charge of Subway’s “5 Dollar Foot Long” marketing campaign a raise. Oh, whatever. They are probably making a ton anyway. I don’t worry about their financial health really. But when you see a genius move done by a corporation, that seems to be the right [...]

Tagged as: food, marketing at work, my youngest, subway, things kids say

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Happy Valentine’s Day. And here is a necklace to remind you of your big fat behind…

February 14, 2009 marketing at work

Is it just me. or does not the entire jewelry line based on Jane Seymour’s Open Heart design remind anybody else of a buttock? The first time we saw the commercial on TV, either from Jared or Kay Jewelers, purveyors of cheesy jewelries, my boys cried out, at the same time, “It looks like a [...]

Tagged as: funny haha, i'd rather have socks, is it me, marketing at work, seriously?, Valentine is for lovers

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Moment: JetBlue & Southwest tweeting each other…

February 10, 2009 mark my word: twitter will doom us all

Saw this on my Twitter homepage. It strikes me as really adorable. I do hope that the actual airlines remain competitors since a collaboration between the two little giants (and they are really not little any more despite the images they are trying to cultivate…) will be the end of low airfares.

Tagged as: jetblue, moments, small things in life, southwest

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I am intrigued. Wouldn’t you? How one employee single-handedly MAKE the hotel…

February 8, 2009 marketing at work

This has just come to my attention that the number 1 rated hotel in Beijing is… Drum roll please… A frigging Holiday Inn! Yes, they do have true 5 star hotels in Beijing. Granted Holiday Inns do get a worse rep in the U.S. than in many other places around the world. Don’t think it [...]

Tagged as: china, hotel, reviews, what do you know?

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The Comcastic Super Bowl Happy Ending. Watch porn and we’ll pay you $10!!

February 3, 2009 marketing at work

This story is too funny to be true. I have to hop over to Snopes.com to make sure that the story itself is not a prank, and verify with The Onion that they did not pen this story. So by now everybody in the US has heard of the surprise given to 85,000 families in [...]

Tagged as: Comcastic!, not from the Onion

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“It’s an Obamanation!” musings on commercialism hitching a ride to the Obama Fever by Salon.com writer

January 20, 2009 marketing at work

Sarah Hepola, thank you! Her humourous, yet sobering, look into the world of Obama-fever merchandising begins thus, “The other day, curious how far the Obama madness had spread, I Googled the words ‘Obama sex toy.’ God bless America: I was not disappointed…” Go straight to the slide show of some of the choice merchandise being [...]

Tagged as: capitalism never disappoints, election, funny haha, obama

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“Pay-As-You-Go Airline Charges by the Minute”

January 7, 2009 marketing at work

This from one of my fav magazines, Wired. When I saw the headline, I thought to myself, "Great, now they have run out of things to charge us for, since they are asking the passengers to pay for everything including tiny bags of pretzels and water, they are going to charge us for sitting [...]

Tagged as: air travel, not from the Onion

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