Arnold exposes the focus group.
Focus groups. I’ve been a consumer in a couple and host of a few. All of which led to general insight and un-creative inspiration. Take a look at the results from a group of individuals that aren’t in the Apple or pop culture loop.
How Not To Inspire Confidence In Your Customers
The latest form of MLM, BlogRush, seems to have already taken over the sidebars of quite a few bloggers (please don’t fall for it). You gotta love how they carry their used-car salesmen persona over to their marketing, like this cheesy e-mail.
The Back Up Gun Rack
For only $39.95, you can kill anyone that bothers you during your sleep. If you’ve had a long day, and your husband tries to sneak out for a snack, shoot him. We’ll even throw in a phone number for life insurance, cause your kids sure-as-hell won’t be smart enough to wander around and lift your comforter up.
Buying and Selling Blogs: How Do You Value Blogs?
They can be a great investment if you’re able to spot a deal. But there are plenty of things to consider before you buy or sell a blog. Chris covers the key points.
Mel Blanc on David Letterman
Mel Blanc, the voice of many Looney Tunes characters, appeared on Letterman way back when. Along with his incredible voices, he brings up some points about production 20 some years ago, that applies to the lackluster quality of today’s cartoons.
A Few Good Creative Men
This is an unbelievably well re-created spin on A Few Good Men. Any creatives and adfolk out there will get a kick out of this. “You can’t handle a bigger logo!”
Polaroid Photography of Grant Hamilton
A great source of colour inspiration through a series of Polaroid photos. Gorgeous simplicity that can inspire any and every facet of design.
The Powerbook! The Powerbook! The Powerbook’s on Fire!
These dreaded fires seem to be common nowadays with previous generations of Apple notebooks. This is an interesting story of how one ignited and Apple’s response (much nicer than how they’ve responded to iPhone hack freezes).
Reminder: Tomorrow, October 15th, is Blog Action Day. If you haven’t already, please do sign up and write a post to help make the environment a priority.
She says it will help Americans get back into the swing of “savings”. I think it will get Americans back into the swing of abusing government funds. We all know there’s enough of that going on already.
I’m interested to hear your thoughts on this. Spill it in the comments.
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Kanye West has a blog, and its good
If you ever wanted to get in touch with Kanye West, this is the easiest way. Kanye’s blog is an interesting look at his interests, and hasn’t taken off yet, so your feedback might catch his attention.
Pixelmator - Image editing for the rest of us
This gorgeous Photoshop knock-off is now officially available for all the Macheads. If any of you pick a copy up, please do share your first impressions with YGG.
Seinfeld on Marketing ebook
Jerry Seinfeld, the new marketing case study. This is a really interesting metaphorical e-book tying some of the more famous skits on Seinfeld into insightful marketing points.
TiltViewer
This Flash Flickr viewer had to have been inspired by Dirt on the Xbox 360. Pretty cool interactive example of the Flickr API in use.
10 Tips for Writing Better Posts
Tips and lists. The magic combination for bloggers. If you’re blogging habit is in the gutter, this list might help.
Is Banksy Right?
Have all the greatest creatives gone commercial?
Trumpet Harmonica Has Got Monster Bells
For anyone planning to get married anytime soon, you have to get your Chapel to play “Here comes the bride” on this.
As you all know, Business 2.0 was axed by Time, Inc. a month or so ago, right when my subscription expired. To my surprise, another issue arrived in my mailbox today, labeled “Collector’s Item: Our Final Issue”.
I picked up my first issue of B2.0 back in September 2002, and until subscribing last year, had rushed to the newsstand each and every month for a copy. The art direction started to go down the drain back in ‘05, but it was still one of the best reads for young go getters. So I’d recommend picking up this “final” issue. (Rambo was resurrected, so it wouldn’t be mad to imagine this mag coming back down the road as a 3.0)
Next, we’ve got Entrepreneur magazine. This month’s issue is the only one I buy throughout the year (sorry, not interested in 50,000 different franchises every issue). This is their annual Young Millionaires issue. The Jakes from Threadless finally made the list, which you can read for free online. I couldn’t read any deeper than the names; don’t want to ruin re-reading the print issue with envy 10,000 times.
A little over a month or so ago, CSS Remix launched a new version of their css gallery. One addition to the new direction was a “Promote Yourself” section with a couple rows of favicons. We tried to purchase one of these spots, but missed out on the row before the price started increasing. This was the first time I’ve seen anything like this.
It seems to be a growing trend, mainly in the gallery sector of sites, but I can see this taking off on blogs (at the footer of every blog post) and many other websites.
27 Tips for Building a Kick-Ass Blog
You may think you’re a know-it-all when it comes to blogging at times, we sure as hell do, but these tips will help you realize how little your ego should be when you skip some of the simplest, most important steps.
Thirty-Five Minutes to Riches
Jack Bauer only has 35 minutes on the clock. He’s piss-poor broke. Which of these does he do?
What Do You Do When A Commenter Just Isn’t Hearing You?
You’ve done it before. You quickly scan an article and in less than a few seconds you already know how you’re going to tell the author how she hasn’t the slightest clue what she’s talking about. This is how you deal with evil commenters like that, besides Douche Baggiing them of course.
How the perfect marketing plan would work
Something that many of us should write in the early stages of our business planning, but few do, this guide is the perfect starting point to the perfect marketing plan.
PPC Management
Hell Yeah Dude!
Reverse Funnel System for Beach Bums
I picked up my first issue of B2.0 back in September 2002, and until subscribing last year, had rushed to the newsstand each and every month for a copy. The art direction started to go down the drain back in ‘05, but it was still one of the best reads for young go getters. So I’d recommend picking up this “final” issue. (Rambo was resurrected, so it wouldn’t be mad to imagine this mag coming back down the road as a 3.0)
