Archive for April, 2010

by smithgifford4/19/10

Play-doh

Hey, what’s the difference between Column A and Column B?

You guessed it. Everyone in Column A filled out their time sheets last week. THANKS GUYS — Enjoy your Doh, you deserve it!
Notes from the winner’s column:

Ernie’s inspiration was the blind black man from star trek.
Hollie made Col. A by default, but demonstrated her creative prowess.
Trisha and Julie = 2 dogs
Amanda refrained from actually touching the Play-doh

To those of you in Column B, there’s always this week’s timesheet…

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by smithgifford

Fly

Flyvertising

Ooo ooo … I’ve got an idea … what if we attach our message to “real” flies and we release them in a trade show. Brilliant!
That must have been how the conversation went at German ad agency Jung Von Matt.
JVM outfitted 200 flies with ultra-light banners to promote a book publisher’s booth at a trade show. (Think itsy bitsy banner plane…). And It was pretty cool, people were freaked out, astonished, amazed, but the real impact

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by Fred4/13/10

upsell

The Art of the Up-Sell

So, I had two very interesting consumer experiences over the weekend. My first experience was with a used-car salesman (ok, a certified pre-owned car salesman) as I participated in that great American pastime, purchasing a car. I’ll have to write about that experience in another blog post, because three days later, it is still playing out. My other consumer experience occured while I was on the phone with the help desk for my Internet Service Provider. That’s the story for…

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by Matt4/6/10

smithgifford-pool

It’s Not Just About Awards Here At SmithGifford…

We like to play Pool as well. The new Brunswick Gold Pool table is here. Of course no one is playing it. I predict that it becomes a work table in a week. But for this week we look like we are liv’n the life!…

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