Ever get side tracked by people asking you questions online or coming to your facebook page and posting things that just don’t seem to fit your product or business? If so, how did you handle it? Did you remember to keep a personal relationship or did you respond in a robotic manner? Continue Reading…

You might have noticed a trend in more and more marketing, where large brands are featuring real people and actual employees in their ads. The end of the new Intel ads feature employees singing the well known “Intel bong” – the four note chime at the end of their ads. Best Buy uses their employees in their ads wearing their trademark blue polo shirts. The entire Domino’s pizza new campaign about their revamped pizza is using real employees. IBM and GE also feature employees prominently in their advertising, with IBM’s Smarter Planet campaign using the tagline “I’m an IBM’er.”* If you combine this trend with the use of consumer generated advertising that we have seen in recent Super Bowls and even reality television, it’s clear something is happening to the world of advertising. Continue Reading…