Crain's Chicago Business reports that Rick Bayless likes to eat at Logan Square's Lula Cafe when he's not nibbling from the grill at Frontera. With two booming Chicago restaurants, a TV show, books and a Frontera product line, Rick Bayless is a chef and a brand. You could even say he's the Oprah of Mexican food. So, when he kindly endorses someone's restaurant, it's word-of-mouth advertising that cannot be topped. …
Sun Times Advertising Columnist Considers My Joblessness (And This Blog)
Turning Film Buffs Into Brand Evangelists
Netfilx is a great service. It's also an important one, due to its disruptive impact on an entire category. People talk about TiVo changing the ad biz. A better bet is that the Netfilx's mail-based model will take out the Blockbuster retail model altogether. No late fees …
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Lasn Admits Defeat. Turns To Shoe Biz For Answers.
from Inc.: But here's the thing about the guerrilla information war that Kalle Lasn and his rotating crew of two dozen or so employees at Adbusters were fighting: "We were losing," he admits. While the Adbusters Media Foundation has built enough of an audience to keep it out of the red -- the magazine sells for $7.95 an issue and has international circulation of 120,000, according to Lasn -- it has had little …
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Broadcast Media Buyers And Tavern Patrons Beware
TV-B-Gone is a new key chain fob that shuts off most televisions. After posting the product on the firm's web site earlier this week the entire stock sold out in two days. They're working on getting more TV-B-Gone's made and delivered as soon as possible. You know one could truly wreak havoc with this device at any sports bar USA, say Sunday around 1:00 pm. One could also get one's butt kicked. Don't wave the thing …
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Wiki Makes More Waves
from Business Week: Anyone in a company or department can post material on these wikis, and anyone else, subject to approval by the creator, can edit or add to them. They've become a cheaper, more flexible collaboration alternative to both overtaxed e-mail and complex groupware such as IBM's Lotus Notes. Essentially, Ross Mayfield's Socialtext wiki software allows everybody in a group or even a whole company to …
Living More Fully Through Art
It's good to be reminded now and again that the designer working on your annual report is actually an artist. This painting is new work from Jill Rizzo, an award-winning graphic designer at David Day + Associates. …
Prepare To Be Scobleized
Microsoft's cheif blog evangelist chimes in: Are you afraid to blog? Corporate Fear. Fear of being different. Fear of telling your boss your ideas. Fear of speaking up in meetings. Fear of going up to someone you don't know and introducing yourself. Fear of doing something that might destroy your career. Fear of weblogging. It's time we get over our fears. I meet a lot of people around the industry. Almost everytime …