SuperAds XLIII

SuperAds XLIII

The Marketing Consigliere prepared himself for Superbowl XLIII by reviewing his guest blog at Scott White’s blog, The Big Kahuna.  He thought it would be interesting to see how far Marketing has come in a year. This year’s Superbowl had some well announced changes such as GM pulling out of its long time sponsorship.  Fine – not everyone was willing to pay $3,000,000 for a spot this year.   While no agency stood out significantly […]

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A Virtual Underworld Connection

A Virtual Underworld Connection

This weekend The Marketing Consigliere spent some time checking out Moviestorm, a British firm with an application that allows you to make your own scripted virtual world videos.  It had been a while since he toyed on Second Life, which almost seems passe now (and besides, you can’t get good cannoli there); but this sounded too cool. He was really curious so downloaded the 25Mb installer and […]

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Superbowl Ads and Branding – What’s Under the Hood?

Superbowl Ads and Branding – What’s Under the Hood?

Last year, Super Bowl XLI was interesting in that the Doritos commercial was made from user-generated content and this year for Super Bowl XLII they promoted their brand with user-generated music. Regarding advertising, there were the “usual suspects” who provided acceptable, entertaining commercials that were spoken about at the water cooler the following week; but from a social networking or technological view this Super Bowl was a bit of […]

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Squidoo Lenses for B2B Marketers?

Squidoo Lenses for B2B Marketers?

I’ve set up a “lens” called  “C4ISR  Marketing – aka Network Centric Marketing” on Squidoo and am trying to teach myself about whether it provides utility for B2B marketers. My “lens” (this is what you call your site there) is not a high ranking site in the Squidoo world by any means, but I guess it’s better than a lot of others. For now I’ll tinker with it […]

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Smartmaps

Smartmaps

In my earlier blog, “SMBs & C4ISR Marketing,” I spoke about how small and medium size business can leverage the power of satellite imagery and apply it to their business. There’s a different and maybe even better way to be a C4ISR Marketer and its origins are in my backyard in the Washington DC area… GeoCommons allows users to “Explore, Create & Share Intelligent Maps and Geographic Data.” […]

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