So often timing is everything. Today, on the anniversary of the 9/11 attacks, Stephanie Rawlings-Blake, the mayor of Baltimore, announced that she won’t be running for re-election. I can’t even begin to speculate why she would choose this date to make the...
I came across a really interesting thread while trying to find a feature that seemed to have been eliminated from one of the Yahoo Groups that I help to manage. I feared that during a recent upgrade this feature was eliminated. I had looked for the feature several...
The other day I was in the midst of a three hour drive, and I don’t know why, but for some reason this drive always puts me to sleep. [It could be the fact that I try to use the time to brush up on my Spanish with audio lessons — saying phrases over and...
When I saw this photo from the Slate blog, I couldn’t help but to think of it from a marketing perspective. That’s because there are always at least two perspectives for any marketing initiative –yours and your customers. Plus, if you’ve got...
The other day, the New York Times business section ran an article on the presidential candidates’ late night television appearances. Apparently, several late night shows including: Jon Stewart’s, The Daily Show; David Letterman; Saturday Night Live, and the Tonight...
Here in the Baltimore Washington metro area, as we continue to prepare for Hurricane Sandy, I’m reminded of some of the “BRANDING HURRICANES” I’ve experienced as a marketer. Hurricane Sandy has been slow moving, and the states in the path of the storm have had...
