www.youthedesigner.com
This graphic design blog always has interesting updates including a Twitpic Business Card Design Contest, which showed many creative ways to update your everyday standard business card, as well as a collection of amazing logos.
www.graphicdesignblog.org
This blog is always updating with creative finds. One of the most interesting entries displayed was 45 Strange and Funny Photoshop Manipulations. This really grabbed my attention by turning an ordinary picture into a new 3D image with a completely different meaning. This blog is always providing new graphics, logos, pictures, or designs that grab anyones attention.
www.thefutureofads.com
This website is always providing an update on advertising within companies and new online changes that are being made. The articles keep you up to date on what’s going on in the social media world.
www.weburbanist.com
Weburbanist gives some crazy examples of art and other things. One of the more recent was a list of the most bizarre jobs. It displays different types of art which are often amazing to look at like snow sculptures or different architecture designs.
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Neuromarketing Predicted to Grow
http://www.marketingforecast.com/archives/3011
No more marketing research that consists of questions, discussion groups, comparing products, or sampling. Those days are over. Today’s new marketing research has evolved to much more hi-tech means…neuromarketing. It’s crazy that companies are turning to research that requires little participation from the individual. A cap is placed on the individuals head and it monitors the response to sight and scent. Who would have thought that technology advanced to this?
After reading this article it got me thinking about what stores do to capture their customers or evoke action from them.. Here’s what I have come up with from searching the web…
- Abercrombie & Fitch: dim lighting and fragrances
- M&M World in NY: pumps the scent of chocolate into their stores
- Sony: hints of mandarin origin, vanilla and cedar in their stores to entice women to buy more
- Starwood’s Hotel Westin: scent in their lobbies to make visitors feel they are at an upscale hotel
- NYC’s Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center: scent of vanilla is used to reduce the anxiety in patients getting MRI’s
- Omni Hotels: scents of lemon grass and green tea are pumped into their lobbies
- Rolls Royce: reproduced the scent of their “Best seller, 1965 Silver Cloud” and sprays it under the seats to recreate the scent of “The Roller”
- Singapore Airlines: the scent of lotus flowers and bamboo forrests
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“Insanity: Doing the same thing over and over again and expecting different results.” -Albert Einstein
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Women and Cyber Socialization
http://whymomsrule.com/2009/08/19/women-and-cyber-socialization/
2009 August 19
By David Bohan
A recent ShesConnected survey of U.S. women who were active social network user points out the importance of blogs. Better than 8 in 10 women read blogs and over half have started their own blog.
Online Activities of U.S. Female Social Network Users*
92% – View profiles on a social network
91% – Create a profile on a social network
88% – Watch video clips online
84% – Read blogs
82% – Upload pictures to a website
78% – Leave comments on sites
52% – Started my own blog
48% – Subscribe to an RSS feed
48% – Download a podcast
No wonder the number of companies focusing efforts to the female blogger is dramatically increasing. Among registrants at the BlogHer conference, over half were contacted weekly by public relations professional with the most active bloggers getting daily contact.
The lesson for marketers, realize the power of the female blogger and work with them in the same fashion you work with professional journalist.
*ShesConnected, “ The Power of Social Networking For Women” research study, July 30, 2009
Thought it was interesting to see the acutal numbers of women who participate in online networking and blogging.
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Supercook.com
Enter an ingredient or two and it serves up the best recipes on the web to fit whatever you have on hand. The more ingredients you enter the easier it is to pull a recipe. You can keep an ongoing list of the ingredients you have in your kitchen and update it whenever you run out of something or add something to the cabinet. This website allows you to view multiple recipes which can easily be made with the ingredients you already have.
Craiglook.com
This website does a complete overview of craigslist. Enter whatever you are looking for and it will pull up the results from anywhere within a 250 mile radius. This new website will save you the time of looking at individual cities one by one. By searching with craiglook it pulls up all the options in surrounding areas probably even in parts of town you never thought to look.
Consumersearch.com
Consumer Search provides you will valuable information that will save you a ton of time and money. They search through the internet to find the best products in many different categories, such as, electronics, computers, kitchen, home, and cars, and the list goes on. The provide you will the top three choices in each catergory in hopes that it narrows down your search and eliminates the hassle of researching the products, they do it for you.
Vark.com
Sometimes searching the web doesn’t answer all your questions and that’s what the makers of Aardvark realized. To solve this problem they started a website where anyone can ask questions on just about any topic. Each question is typically sent out to about 6 people which will result in usually 2 responses. This process only takes about five minutes so you’ll have your answer in no time
Etsy.com
This is a great place to buy or sell anything handmade. They offer a wide variety of handbags, jewelry, clothing, and so much more. It offers a great place for small businesses to post their items for sale and have a great feedback return from online shoppers.
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