Hunky Dorys are a brand of potato crisp. I guess there isn't much that you can say about potato crisps. You either like them or you don't. You might like one brand over another, but I don't normally associate crisps with scantily clad women. That was until last year when Hunky Dorys ran an advertising campaign featuring scantily clad female rugby "players". This year … [Read more...] about Provocative Advertising
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Controlling The Conversation
In 2011 you cannot control the conversation or dialogue with your customers. All you can hope to do is to be responsive.Forget about control.Learn to listen.Learn to respond.Control is an artifact of a bygone eraYou lost it years ago.Trying to control a conversation simply will not work and will make you look like a dinosaur. … [Read more...] about Controlling The Conversation
Our Christmas Card To You
I love using and abusing domain names for marketing. With that in mind we set this up yesterday: HappyChristmas.me Check it out and if you like it share it with your friends! … [Read more...] about Our Christmas Card To You
Pushing Domains With Silly Ideas
One of the things that I've been getting a bit of a kick out of over the last few months is coming up with new and slightly off the wall ways to push various products. Let's face it - domains and hosting aren't that exciting. It's not as if we are selling race cars or working in Hollywood .. But there's no reason why we can't have a little bit of fun with something and try to … [Read more...] about Pushing Domains With Silly Ideas
How NOT To Market Via Email – Golden Spiders 2010
I don't like lazy marketing. I've never given the Golden Spiders permission to email me or my business, yet again today they did. Annoying. However it's also quite amusing .. One of the emails landed in our helpdesk which stripped out ALL the HTML .. what was left over wasn't exactly um .. intelligible.. … [Read more...] about How NOT To Market Via Email – Golden Spiders 2010