Keep it Real
I finally bought a painting by my friend Hyatt Moore. I’ve admired his art for years. Hyatt beautifully captured a Spanish dancer in swirling motion. Having a real painting is so much better than having a print. You can almost feel the brush strokes being applied to the canvas. The colors are deeper and richer. […]
Free vs. Paid
Microsoft has a growing number of stores around the USA. They came very late to the game that Apple started with their retail stores. Microsoft Stores are not nearly as focused as Apple Stores. Microsoft Stores offer a massive variety of products. You are struck by extremely busy visuals, in contrast to Apple’s clean and […]
POSITIVE Marketing
One of the things I’ve been learning recently is that what you give out will return to you. My kids have sadly joined in the attitudes my wife and I have about music. Our years of listening to repeated songs have left us jaded. Our constant complaining rubbed off. Now they complain about repetitive music […]
8 SXSW Takeaways
Becky McCray pushed me to share some of the lessons I learned at South by Southwest Interactive Festival (SXSWi). And there were actually several. Look outside your area of expertise for inspiration. The photo features James Bower, during a panel presentation called, “Death of the Textbook, Emergence of Games.” I’m not big on games, but […]
SXSW Review
Half. The South by Southwest Interactive Festival (SXSWi) would have been much better if it were half as big, had half as many seminars per hour, cost half as much, lasted half as many days and had half as many participants. I know that I am probably a tiny minority with this view, but I […]
Non-attack Marketing
Nescafe forgot a basic rule of good marketing – don’t cut your competitor down. “Full of themselves” was their description of Starbucks’ instant coffee, in a recent national campaign promoting their similarly packaged individual-serving product. Stating an advantage they have over the Starbucks product (price?) would have been much more helpful to the consumer than […]