Merry Christmas to All from the Costco Christmas Singer

Sometimes the Best Marketing isn’t Planned – It is Spontaneous and Comes from the Heart

costco Merry Christmas to All from the Costco Christmas Singer Just the other day at the Costco Wholesale store in Vancouver Washington I came across just the kind of Christmas marketing that just can’t be planned or even budgeted.

Crescent City to Petaluma | Avenue of the Giants | In and Out Burger

Day two of our trip was even better than the first day.

We drove through the Redwoods, The Avenue of the Giants, an incredible trip we stopped and enjoyed the forest when ever we felt like it.

Good Bye Netscape | AOL Throws in the Towel

According to the Netscape blog AOL will abandon support for the Netscape Browser February 1st, 2008.

The Best Fish Taco I Ever Had!

WOW! I had a fish taco at Baja Grill yesterday and it was absolutely the best fish taco I have ever eaten. Baja Grill is downtown Portland at 827 S.W. Second Avenue.

Branding! Don’t Waste Your Time and/or Effort …

Last week I was knocked out of the game by PAIN caused by a sinus infection. Under the pressure of intense pain I realized something – branding didn’t matter it was results that I wanted. I didn’t care how cool the product was, I didn’t care who used the product, I didn’t even care who said the product worked for them. All I wanted was relief from the PAIN.

InVerge 2007 Wrap-up

Well it has been 4 days and I have had a chance to recover and let the information from the conference sink in. This was a great conference and I not only learned a lot I really enjoyed it.

Violin | Hip Hop | R&B | Soul | MySpace

I ran across this YouTube video on MySpace while surfing the net this morning and I just wanted to share it with you.

Paul Dateh – LOS ANGELES, California – Soul / R&B / Hip Hop – www.myspace.com/pauldateh. This guy is really good.

Who said What? – Brand Management – Rand Fishkin

Rand Fishkin’s – Whiteboard Friday – “Whatchu Talkin Bout?”

Rand deals with brand management as an answer to his directory burning a couple of weeks ago. SEOmoz had some negative threads in some of the blogs and Digitalpoint last week. Here is Rand’s answer.

2007 Tour de France | Alberto Contador | Cadel Evans | Levi Leipheimer | Marketing?

The 3 tour winners Well it was a great Tour de France.

The tour was won by Alberto Contador (Spain), second place was Cadel Evans (Australia), third was Levi Leipheimer (USA). Only 31 seconds separated these riders. Just imagine that, over 91 hours in the saddle of their racing bikes and the top riders were only 31 seconds apart. WOW! This was the closest podium in the history of the Tour. The tour actually began in 1903.

Tour de France | Stage 9 | Juan Mauricio Soler | Branding | Marketing

Juan Mauricio Soler wins Stage 9 in the Tour de France. Soler won with a time of 4:14:24.

The chase group, including race leader Michael Rasmussen (still the Tour leader) and Levi Leipheimer (USA’s best hope 9th place almost 4 minuted back) crossed the line just 42 seconds behind the Soler.

Steven Colbert – Apples New iPhone – Frog in a Blender?

The new iPhone from Apple has been all over the news, net, and television lately.

Steven Colbert even pretended he had one when he talked into his hand on a recent Colbert Report.

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