Kinda seems lame or maybe just premature to trot out an “I-told-you-so” to the Colonel when he hasn’t even had a chance to botch it up of his own devices. The whole Oprah’s Book Chicken Club “We-can’t-keep-up-with-the- coupons” disaster has taken the focus off the main point–Kentucky Grilled Chicken is a bad idea which wouldn’t [...]

Kentucky Grilled Chicken? Really?
OK, so you’ve got our attention. Free coupons downloadable on Oprah.com
But long term?
Moving to KFC seemed to work for a while. Made us forget what we were really eating–and then the nostalgia of the bucket kicked in… But it seems to me that if you’re going to go all healthy on us [...]

There’s a very insightful article by Simon Dumenco over at Ad Age about the significance of the fact that Ashton Kutcher won the race with CNN to be the first with 1 million followers on Twitter. Go read the article but here’s the bottom line. Social media was supposed to level the playing field (which [...]

So is this a World Wide Rave, David? I played Liesl in an off off off Broadway version of this show (ie Illinois) AND I’ve been to Belgium, so I have a special affection for it.Thanks for sending it Maxine!

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You know I loved David Meerman Scott’s World Wide Rave, but I never did get around to checking out the whole Matt dancing gum thing he wrote about until one of the winners of the book, Corinne Lor, reminded me to check it out.

How cool is this? Not sure it makes we want to [...]

I gotta say, page 14 was my favorite page. OK, 15 wasn’t too shabby either. Just ’cause it was so unexpected. Now I’ve gone and spoiled it, so please, don’t tell Andy, and do act surprised.
Andy knew the bar was high on this book and I gotta say, he, what’s that cliche again?, surpassed [...]

Cheaper? Are you kidding me?
MAC came up with a branding strategy years ago and stuck with it.
Microsoft has been flailing all over the place. From Seinfeld to “I’m a PC” to this???
The recession is temporary. The damage from positioning itself as the cheap computer could be permanent.
Video: Laptop Hunters $1000 – Lauren Gets an HP [...]

Would you go on Reality TV?
I asked this question recently on a social networking site because I was curious about what lengths business people would go to step into the spotlight and promote their businesses. So I asked ‘em. The most common response was a resounding “No!”. Yet one respondent told me she not only [...]

Just got an email from an interesting guy, Tim Roux, a branding strategist (and author–check out his novel–Girl on a Bar Stool)
living in Belgium. He runs the UK marketing consultancy Mud Valley. We all love stories about how entrepreneurs invent stuff in their garage (heck, Guy Kawasaki even named his venture capital company Garage).Tim [...]

This video is 20 minutes long, well worth it, but if you don’t have time to listen, I’ll cut to the chase below.
Price DOES matter. Not in the way you think. With everyone cutting back prices ’cause of the recession, you might want to consider doubling yours. According to author/journalist Benjamin Wallace, research shows [...]