Friday Five (business cards, The Simpsons, TED and more)
Every Friday, we present our staff’s top picks for the best links or articles of the week AND we’ll tell you why we think they’re so great. A word of warning – this isn’t always about marketing. It’s just great stuff from across the web that we think is worth sharing. Enjoy! Business Card Round Up (Jessie-Lee): http://bit.ly/xqnF9Q I have to say, I love it when my favorite bloggers take the time to put these together! The business card is such a standard design piece, it is so nice to see total creative license taken. I can’t get enough of the intricate design, letterpress,...
Read MorePinterest for Businesses: The Good, the Bad, and the Ugly
For several months now, Pinterest has been generating an amazing amount of buzz in the social media world. The site, which functions like a virtual bulletin board that allows users to conveniently save images from across the web and share them with others, is still invitation-only but is growing fast with the total number of unique visitors increasing 329% from September to December, 2011. Not only is the number of people using Pinterest on the rise – the site is also becoming an important source of traffic for other websites. The latest figures we saw show Pinterest generating more...
Read MoreThe Friday Five (Social Media, Surrealism, Millennial Marketing and More!)
Every Friday, we present our staff’s top picks for the best links or articles of the week AND we’ll tell you why we think they’re so great. A word of warning – this isn’t always about marketing. It’s just great stuff from across the web that we think is worth sharing. Enjoy! 5 ways to use social media and your online presence to drive people offline (Kathleen): http://bit.ly/wu22j0 John Jantsch of Duct Tape Marketing always has really practical, easy to implement marketing advice that I find particularly helpful for small businesses. This blog provides great examples of ways that...
Read MoreThe Friday Five: Five Links Worth Sharing
Welcome to the first of what we hope will be a weekly feature on our blog – the Quintain Marketing “Friday Five.” Every Friday, we’ll present our staff’s top picks for the best links or articles of the week AND we’ll tell you why we think they’re so great. A word of warning – this won’t always be about marketing. It’s just great stuff from across the web that we think is worth sharing. Enjoy!
Read MoreWhy Marketing Is Like Teaching Your Kids to Like Broccoli
They say that the definition of “crazy” is doing the same thing over and over again and expecting different results. I’ve come to realize that the two exceptions to this relate to parenting and marketing. Let me explain. When I’m not raising my kids, I’m busy running a marketing agency. Given that I spend almost all of my time on these two things, it should come as no surprise that I’ve begun to see parallels between parenting and marketing. Specifically, I’ve realized that marketing is like teaching your kids to like broccoli.
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