I am on Pinterest, now what?
I am on Pinterest, so now what? Wait, step back. If you are you thinking, “What the heck is Pinterest? Why do I need to be there?” check out this introductory post. If you are a small business or a blogger and you want to make the most of Pinterest, check out a few basic ...
Roads? We Don’t Need Roads.
How well can we predict the future? I grew up in an Victorian house and we had a huge barn that we used as our garage. I always loved playing in the barn because there was so much history in the building itself. It had cool secret hiding places and odd contraptions on the walls. ...
Personalized Soup?
Brilliant & inspiring. Looking for a way to make lemons out of lemonade? Heinz repackaged the common cold and made it a marketing tool. Springwise.com writes: Heinz used Facebook to enable fans to send a personalized tin of soup to friends suffering with a cold. Heinz partnered with We Are Social in order to increase ...
Every Office Needs Jello & Yoga
Are you on a mad dash working ahead this week so you can enjoy the short holiday next week? Yeah, me too. Don’t forget to take a moment to breath and have fun. It will help you get through the pile of to-do items much faster. Are you breathing? Check out this awesome Office Yoga app ...
A Belated Moment of Silence
This morning at The Dog House I couldn’t resist this profane headline on Digg. As an Apple fanatic I felt it my duty to do a bit of research in an attempt to understand the hostility displayed. I quickly found out that Dennis Ritchie, the creator of the C programming language and co-creator of UNIX, ...
Are You a Screaming Toddler?
What do parenting and marketing have in common? This morning as I cleaned my inbox over at Data Dog I couldn’t help see the correlation between marketing genius Seth Godin and parenting expert Dr. Charles Fay. Godin compares marketing to a screaming child, “Like a toddler ignoring his ever more insistent parent, it’s so easy ...
Pinning Up Art on the Web
Earlier this month over at The Dog House when Colleen and I announced that we’d be starting a Pinterest campaign for ArtMailMilwaukee.com we got a “What’s Pinterest?” response from all the men in the office. So when Data Dog Mike came across the article, If You’ve Never Heard of Pinterest, You’re a Big Dork, this ...
