Right after I graduated from the University of Southern California, my first job was to party like a rockstar, mostly to suppress the disbelief that I had actually just graduated from college. You see, three years earlier, I had dropped out of college in Atlanta and moved to Hollywood to be an actual rockstar, but…
Ever heard the expressions “any press is good press,” or “any attention is good attention?” Know why these expressions exist? Because every brand, business, startup, celebrity, musician, actor and wannabe needs to start by getting attention or they’re going nowhere fast. The most successful people out there understand one thing. Businesses need attention to survive,…
I’ve often argued that video is a tool of social media. So as many social media responsibilities are being taken on by PR departments, we are seeing public relations teams becoming more actively involved in the creation and deployment of social video content. Viral videos, branded entertainment, web series videos and video game trailers top…
Everybody who launches a new product, from Proctor & Gamble to a couple of college grads who thought it up at a bar, is convinced they’ll be rich. If they didn’t think it would sell, they wouldn’t try. Look at some of the morons on Shark Tank. They all believed in themselves and their products…
On with it… 1. Someecards I recently wrote a featured article for iMedia called Top 10 Trends Marketers Wish Would Die. I wish I had added Someecards. Somehow I get the newsletter. It used to be cool, but how is it still going? I get it. Folksy photos and you write stuff on them. Any bets…
This is a guest post written by Kimberly Barnes. Ah, 2013. The year that “selfie” joined “bootylicious” in the Oxford Online Dictionary. The year that some genius created a poop version of the Harlem Shake — and 700,000 of us watched it. And, of course, the year that EVERY SINGLE THING on the Internet was…
In 2014, online video marketing has become the latest trend that companies and their brands have chosen to successfully advertise their business and products. How effective is online video marketing? According to ComScore, 90% of users say that seeing a video about a product is helpful in the decision process, and after watching a video, 64%…
In survey after survey, meetings get knocked by everyone from employees to senior executives as being among the biggest waste of work hours. In one poll, by Office Team, 45 percent of senior executives said their firms would be more productive if they banned all meetings at least one day a week! “The problem that…
We finally made a long awaited follow up to our Super Funny Happy Valentine’s Day Song (over 1.3 Million views). Let’s see if we can top that. In case you missed it, here’s the original, one and only, Super Funny Happy Valentine’s Day Song too!
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