Archive for December, 2009
Christmas Eve Gift: A trip down TV ad memory lane
Enjoy some Christmas punch on corecubed. After all, you can’t be all business all the time!
For your enjoyment are some fun examples of the all-time number-one most popular television ads to ever grace your screen. (more…)
Count your blessings – and thank your clients
Well Thanksgiving is a week past, but still on my mind. Imagine for a moment that it’s 1621 and you’re a member of the Plymouth, Mass. Colony. Times have been hard, and food scarce. The wheat your ships brought over from England refuses to grow in this rocky soil. You don’t know how to build shelter you’re unskilled at hunting and fishing in this type of terrain. Half your fellow colonists have already died and winter is on the way. (more…)
Be loved by the In-box
These days there’s a lot of talk about lists. Visiting grandchildren today and thinking of Santa who keeps a list, and he’s “checking it twice.” And thinking about it, our lives come down to lists. There’s the voter’s registration list, the grocery list, the vendor list, the client list and assorted mailing lists. You might say the list (bad pun intended) is endless.
When it comes to e-mail marketing, there’s one list you always want to have in the back of your mind: the list of forbidden spam words. (more…)