On December 20 of last year, this email landed in my inbox. If you can’t read it, here is the fun subject line: “Elizabeth, Hit your target like a sniper.” As Canada is lately a little lacking in Target stores, I surmised they were talking about my target market. They were. It was flogging some […]
The Fish in the Barrel Don't Like it When You Shoot
We marketers just love a captive audience, don’t we? We like them strapped into pressurized metal tubes at 35,000 feet with nothing to look at but a tiny screen or a drooling neighbor. We like them squished into subway cars, bouncing off each other in mosh pits or looking for a familiar taste far from […]
Only You Can Prevent Feature Puke
If you want to have fun at an otherwise dull wedding or corporate event, try to sit next to a professional event planner. When they aren’t trying to plan their own events, they can be found sitting in the back of other people’s events dishing out the catty remarks that make the back row so […]
Pssst. Trade Shows Suck at Lead Generation. Pass it on.
Sales squirrels ignoring you? Here’s a fun way to get their attention: tell them you’re cancelling all the trade shows next year. Now count backwards from ten after you click send and stand by for the howling, the outrage, the pleading. It will sound something like this: “How will we ever make quota?” “The quarter is […]
You Better Dance With Them What Brung Ya
Is it time already for Apple’s Festival of Likes? You know, that annual event where people find it necessary to sleep on the floor of a mall in order to pay someone hundreds of dollars for a phone. Personally, I’m happy to stay in my own bed and be one of the last to get an […]
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