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What You Like Is More Than A Preference, It’s An Income Opportunity

Likes.com, a new word-of-mouth advertising model that aims to connect bloggers and influencers with advertisers on Twitter, got some advance press from The New York Times. The company encourages bloggers and Twitter users to specify their tastes in restaurants, movies, books and other products, and then to publish those recommendations to their blogs and social network pages. Advertisers can then see who has favored …

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What The Duck?

According to Eugene Register-Guard, the University of Oregon students who produced and appear in this video are in trouble. No, not for making a crap video. The marketing arm of the UO athletic department asked the students to take it down earlier this week because the Duck mascot appears repeatedly in it, and the rights to the mascot are a copyright of the Walt Disney Co. -- an agreement between the UO and Disney …

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Self-Promo Ad #7

Yesterday, I had a great talk over Skype with Bob Knorpp of The BeanCast and Cool Beans Group. Like me, Bob is a freelance copywriter and brand consultant, who is fighting for a foothold in the scree field of this economy. One of the things we touched on was the need to be better self-promoters, and by that we mean we need to be more obvious about our service offerings. Bob runs a popular podcast--Danny G. and I will …

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Spotlight on NW Creative: Designers Don’t Read by Austin Howe

Designers Don't Read by Austin Howe began as a series of weekly essays sent every Monday morning to top graphic designers. It's now a 208-page book from one of Portland's more well known "mad men." Howe and Mike Doherty launched the hybrid advertising agency AKA Advertising and Sass (where I showed my book to Doug Lowell in 1995). After selling the agency, Howe spent the next 8 years freelancing as a writer and …

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Jonah Bloom on The Rise of Media As A Marketing Service (A Favorite Topic Herein)

"We now have countless examples of the success of marketer as media owner," Bloom says. Then he kindly lists them. J&J's BabyCenter.com had 3.6 million views last month P&G's HomeMadeSimple.com and Pampers.com pulled in close to a million visitors P&G is launching its beauty mag, Rouge, to six million Americans next year Walmart with its money saving tips on YouTube Grey Goose with its entertainment division American …

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