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Archive for November 30th, 2008

Black Friday Morning Quarterback

I didn’t think I’d do it. But I did. I hit the stores the morning of Black Friday.


Did I find crazed hordes of shoppers, fighting over the latest hot toy? Nope. All in all, the experience was quite civilized…which probably doesn’t bode well for retailers.


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How Would You Market Porsche?

What type of advertising and marketing will support the new Porsche’s? That’s the question that kept popping into my cranium when I read this Business Week article. I’ve always been a Jaguar fan (that is until I drove one), but with the tough economy, how and to who would you go about marketing these little beasts?

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Short Attention Spans . . . Wait, What?

We can’t pay attention to anything much longer than a couple of minutes anymore. I watch my teenage kids rabidly surf their ipods and, sometimes, the car radio, with a weird mix of devotion and impatience. Even when they find a song they absolutely love, they bounce out of it within a minute or so because it doesn’t hold their interest.


And this is music they love!


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