According to their website, Make Mine a $Million Business™ has one goal: to help women-owned businesses surpass the million-dollar revenue mark. Founded by Count Me In for Women's Economic Independence with OPEN from American Express, the program provides a combination of money, mentoring and marketing tools that women entrepreneurs need to help grow their businesses to a million dollars and beyond. Lexi Reese, …
Meet My Good Friend, Print
Steffan Postaer loves print—a fact that can come as no surprise to anyone who's ever looked at an Altoids ad. Postaer is this week's guest columnist at Talent Zoo, the Atlanta-based recruiter and media company. He uses this platform to wax poetic on the strength of a medim that lasts, quite literally, in stacks on nightstands and such. I love print. To this day I ask everyone who works for me to show off ideas …
Word Of Mouth Is Connected To The Mouths Of Customer Service Reps
Over at ClickZ Pete Blackshaw makes some very good points about the importance of good call center and customer service reps. Here's the rub: consumer affairs is the most intimate feedback pipe to the same vocal consumers marketers are struggling to reach, understand, and leverage. At a time when marketers, in the name of entering the conversation, keep getting slapped, dogpiled, and embarrassed by clumsily stepping …
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Yo Philly, Your Steak Just Got Demoted To A Burger
Mendelsohn/Zien, Los Angeles is out with a new Hardee's spot. This time there's no soaped up waif feeding her face, just a guy who talks Philly with his mouth full. Hence, the need for subtitles. …
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“Geek” And “Blog” Defy Definition
Cory Bergman, Editor of Lost Remote on his comfort (or lack thereof) with his present state of geekery: I've always disliked being called a geek. But as I stood in line at the supermarket waiting to buy a spicy tuna roll, reading my Blackberry 8700c and wearing a custom T-shirt that reads, "Lost Remote," I suddenly realized that there should be a more respectful term. Like "metro geek." Or something. A commentator on …
Miller Lite Borrows From Miller High Life’s Manliness
With the launch of ManLaws.com, Crispin Porter + Bogusky has built a nice venue for showcasing their new Miller Lite TV spots. They've also created a place where no metrosexual can feel at peace, as there are thousands of so-called Man Laws to adhere to and more coming in by the hour from consumers. Here's a sample of some Man Laws from the new site: A man-to-man phone conversation may not exceed five minutes. There …
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Massive Audience For Portable Content
USA TODAY says movie studios are using consumers' small screens to promote their big screen fare. For Superman Returns, which opens June 30, Warner Bros. filmed 27 behind-the-scenes production diaries. It posted links to the videos on its SupermanReturns.com, iTunes and the hard-core Superman fan site BlueTights Network. The response "was beyond our wildest expectations," says Warner Bros. interactive marketing head …
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Make Art. Not War.
Diablogue is offering up a saucy bit from Jonathan Kneebone of the Glue Society. When someone with vague creative aspirations could do anything with their time and energy, why the hell work in advertising? After all, you could be writing a novel or movie, a TV drama or comedy show. You could be directing a documentary, photographing nudes or paiting landscapes. You could be being creative rather than talking about …
