When you have a big pitch ahead, how you arrive at the meeting determines, in part, your ability to perform at peak condition. Are you harried from a long flight? Was your night in the Holiday Inn Express less than billed? Does your rental car smell of tobacco or worse? Here’s a better idea, buy […]
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Gary Vee Rocks The Mic, Wins AdPulp’s International Humanitarian Award
The words we use are important. Words convey meaning. Right now, I am looking for the words to convey how much I love this ass-kicking, fact-kicking session from Gary Vaynerchuk, head of Vayner Media. In the video, a person asks Vaynerchuk how to meet “relevant people” at South By Southwest. Gary Vee rightly does the […]
Ad Agency Process Is Slower Than Molasses — Clients Are Not Impressed
Have you heard the news? Journalists are migrating to Adland to help agency personnel get off their asses and move at the fast pace of business today. According to the The Wall Street Journal, Caitlin Francke, a former reporter for the Baltimore Sun and the Philadelphia Inquirer, is now senior vice president and director of […]
A Little Less Conversation Might Actually Be On Brand
Does anyone really care what a canned pasta brand thinks about world events? Some brands have made real-time marketing and social media an opportunity to comment on relevant political events, social issues and world topics. But many are just filling an ever-widening content pipeline with noise. What’s fueled all this is technology: The need to […]
For Modern Brands, Social Media Marketing Is A Shared Responsibility
Hats off to David Zaleski at iMedia Connection for capturing a serious topic in a humorous way. Zaleski says at the end of his video lashing that there’s no need for social media managers. I wouldn’t go that far, but statistics do point to a downward trend. According to newly released stats from career site […]
Social Gets Some Big Time Face Time @Dreamforce 2013
Heads up SFO. A small city of people are flying in for Dreamforce, the annual user conference put on by Salesforce.com in San Francisco this week. According to reports, some of the Dreamforce badge wearers will be seeking information on how to incorporate social media marketing and social selling into their practice. Others may be […]
#AskJPM Backfires, House of Morgan Cancels Tweet Chat
JPMorgan Chase & Co intended to use Twitter today for thought leadership purposes. Using the hashtag #AskJPM, interested parties were invited to send questions in advance of the session set for Thursday at 1 p.m. in New York. $JPM VC Jimmy Lee is taking over @JPMorgan on 11/14 at 1pm ET. Tweet Qs using #AskJPM […]
Over Sharing On Tweetbook Is Not Appetizing
People like to take photos of their food while dining out and upload the images to Instagram, Facebook, Flickr or Twitpic. Depending on your point of view, this is either a pointless bad habit, or a legitimate means of word of mouth and influencer or peer marketing. It is easy to make fun of the […]
Crushing Copper with Annie Heckenberger
Editor’s note: Please welcome Annie Heckenberger of Red Tettemer O’Connell + Partners to AdPulp. Her first post is a “get to know me” piece and an excellent intro to her fast moving world. I have this favorite childhood memory. Every Friday afternoon in the summer, my best friend’s mother would drive my best friend, her […]
Burt’s Bees Hawking Its Wares on the Corner of Instagram and Vine
Burt’s Bees and its agency Baldwin & are having fun with Instagram and Vine (as it should be). The company is using stop-motion animation to create uber-abbreviated versions of classic novels. In Little Women, for example, one Civil War-era lip balm woman says to another, “We really are quite little.” “And each of us women,” […]
