Is it just me, or does the fact WalMart is pinning their hopes on (fake) Kiss and Target is pinning theirs to Pearl Jam seem just this side of bone rattling? Just can’t wrap my head around two historically anti-establishment bands actually penning deals with two verrrrry establishment mainstream big box discount retailers.
I’m pretty sure if Kurt Cobain was still alive, this would be anything but a done deal. Yikes.
Those of us who live here in the Twin Cities are familiar with The Lion’s Tap, a family owned, decades old restaurant built on good old fashioned customer service. The history of the place is amazing…and the burgers are pretty darn good.
A few years ago, they came up with the catchy phrase “Who’s your patty?” As savvy marketers, they registered the slogan with the state of Minnesota, filed for federal trademark protection, then spent the past four years plastering the question everywhere. Their website. Servers’ t-shirts. In the restaurants. On their business cards. In their ads. And on about a zillion billboards all over the upper Midwest. It’s not unusual to run into a “Who’s your patty?” t-shirt in Fargo, North Dakota or Madison, Wisconsin.
So imagine how stunned they were to find the phrase on a McDonald’s billboard touting the Angus Burger in July, and in television and radio ads ever since. [click here to continue…]
If you’ve worked in retail for all of…oh..say twelve minutes, you know the customer is most certainly not always right. For those who’d like a chuckle over the insanity that others experience, here’s a little website sure to bring a smile. Enjoy!
(Thanks to Meredith Schwartz at G&D for reminding me about this one!)
Lemme tell ya, if you want to stop my heart on a dime, utter the following words:
Google Docs tanked The 3/50 Project registrations, Cinda.
Really want to go for the gut? Tell me just as I’m getting on a plane to fly half way across the country. As in Thursday. As in the day I was headed to Seattle. [click here to continue…]
If you weren’t there, you can’t fully appreciate the living hell Sunday morning brought to the west side of Manhattan. Thanks to an oversight on the part of the local police precinct near the Javits, no one with GLM or the convention center knew about the marathon scheduled to run that morning… [click here to continue…]
If you’re in the neighborhood, c’mon over to the gift mart for my seminar. Here’s the scoop:
Title: The 3/50 Project…Building Business From the Ground Up Date: Friday, August 21, 2009 Time: 9:30 a.m. Location: Pacific Market Center Host: The Seattle Gift Show Tickets: Must be badged market attendee; check out our Facebook page for info about getting a Guest badge if you need one.
Interested in having me speak in your area?
No sweat. Just have the organization interested in sponsoring the event drop me a line via the Contact page on AlwaysUpward.com. Right now, I’m booking into November with a couple of small pockets left in October.
Now that the boxes are loading and the booths are disappearing, how was NYIGF received by buyers and vendors? Well, if you’re to believe the buzz on the floor, pretty good. More or less. Depending on who you talk to and what their goals were. [click here to continue…]
Yet another great piece about The 3/50 Project, this time from our friends at WSAW-TV, the CBS affiliate in Wausau, Wisconsin. Big high five, folks; Wisconsin is really on board, with both feet!
Is it just me, or does the fact WalMart is pinning their hopes on (fake) Kiss and Target is pinning theirs to Pearl Jam seem just this side of bone rattling? Just can’t wrap my head around two historically anti-establishment bands actually penning deals with two verrrrry establishment mainstream big box discount retailers.
Those of us who live here in the Twin Cities are familiar with The Lion’s Tap, a family owned, decades old restaurant built on good old fashioned customer service. The 
If you’ve worked in retail for all of…oh..say twelve minutes, you know the customer is most certainly not always right. For those who’d like a chuckle over the insanity that others experience, 
Lemme tell ya, if you want to stop my heart on a dime, utter the following words:
If you weren’t there, you can’t fully appreciate the living hell Sunday morning brought to the west side of Manhattan. Thanks to an oversight on the part of the local police precinct near the Javits, no one with GLM or the convention center knew about the marathon scheduled to run that morning… 
Next stop on the Cinda Summer Road Run? Seattle!
Now that the boxes are loading and the booths are disappearing, how was NYIGF received by buyers and vendors? Well, if you’re to believe the buzz on the floor, pretty good. More or less. Depending on who you talk to and what their goals were. 
