11/08/2010 - Oh Donny Deutsch, I've Missed You... Cereality

One of my favorite programs ever on earth was
The Big Idea with Donny Deutsch. 
So for the last couple of years I've been wondering what ever happened to the show.  I never took the time to look it up, but it'd crossed my mind on several occasions.  The other day, I stumbled across a company called Cereality that I'd seen on The Big Idea several years ago ... I read about them for a while, but then my noggin just wouldn't let me forget how much I liked The Big Idea and how much I miss have Donny Deutsch included in my week!

Below ... ::Wiki "Facts":: on Donny Deutsch and
two fascinating videos about the concept of cereal as fast food.
Enjoy!

::Wiki "Facts" on Donny Deutsch::
*an American television personality and advertising executive. He is also the former host of the CNBC talk show The Big Idea with Donny Deutsch.

*Deutsch was born in Hollis Hills, a neighborhood in the New York City borough of Queens to a Jewish family. He attended P.S. 188, Martin Van Buren High School, and the Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania.[citation needed]

*Deutsch is the chairman of Deutsch, Inc., an advertising agency company founded by his father that is owned by Interpublic Group of Companies (IPG). In 2000, Donny sold his agency to the Interpublic Group of Companies (IPG) for $265 million.

In 2005, Harper Collins published Deutsch's business motivation book, Often Wrong, Never in Doubt, written with co-author Peter Knobler.

Deutsch was the host of the CNBC's The Big Idea with Donny Deutsch

which was cancelled on December 4, 2008.

*On February 22, 2010, Deutsch created controversy by calling Florida's Cuban-American Senate candidate Marco Rubio the racially derogatory term "coconut"[1] on The Joy Behar Show.

On April 27, 2010, MSNBC suspended him from appearances on their programming for including MSNBC hosts Keith Olbermann and Ed Schultz in his Angry Americans special.[2] Deutsch began appearing on MSNBC programs again on June 4, 2010.[3]

Background on the hiatus of The Big Idea at the Huffington Post!
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11/07/2010 - Seth Godin Explains Why You Need a Tribe -

- Seth Godin Explains Why You Need a Tribe -

-Seth's Blog Discussing the Tribe Theory-

More About Seth Godin @ his website!

11/06/2010 - How the Internet is Changing Advertising - Epipheo Studios

A Link to Epipheo ... (You're going to want to see it..) Absolute Geniuses as far as I'm concerned ... As I write this, it's actually Friday night (Friday the 5th, not Friday the 12 ... I'd really be pulling something off then!!)) ... Anywho, I've just discovered them as I was looking over some videos about online marketing that I'd bookmarked earlier in the week.

I expect that you'll thoroughly enjoy this video ... I suggest watching it twice.  It'll really get your thought process jumping!!  Enjoy!  

11/04/2010 - Shareability and Logistics of your product in 2040!?

You can read my post over at Journey to the Nucleus of my Noggin to get the in depth behind the scenes about the concept behind my photography blog. 

Suffice it to say, I think a great deal of success in business comes from out of the box thinking.  If you take the time to trek over to the Nucleus of my Noggin link above, you'll see that I'm making an effort to not only think about the shareability and logistics of the product now, but the shareability and logistics of it in 2040!! 

Let's say for example you don't want to trek over to another link ... even though it will pop up in a new window right in front of your face .... I'll paste an excerpt of the aforementioned blog below::

I've been able to determine a general time frame on an approximate 30 minute shoot,

but I've also possible stumbled upon something brilliant!!

-Mary Beth's First Day of Pre-school-


It occurred to me that this little keepsake of Mary Beth's First Day of Pre-School is online and available to her for as long as the "grand ole inter-web" exists ... which I think it's safe to say, is going to be a long time.


What's so neat about that, you may ask??  Well, as you may or may not have realized; we're on the cusp of another information age.  I was reading an article the other day that speculated that by 2020 we'll all carry a device that is much like the "Motorola Droid" is now.  It will be out "personal device" ... it may sound like "the Jetsons", but we're heading in that direction. 


Aaaaaaaaanywho, the point of my hypothesis is this ...

It will be very nice for Mary Beth ... in 2040 to be dropping her own little girl off at her first day of pre-school and have the convenience of putting the speaker of her "communication device" to her mouth and saying "Mary Beth's First Day of Pre-School" and in a matter of seconds not only be able to tell her little dahling of her very own fear on her first day of school; but show her ... right there on the personal communication device that she holds in her hand ... right before she jumps in her flying car and goes back to Venus.

Sound a little crazy?  Sure ....
Is it just a little bit memorable?  Yup ...
Does that kind of marketing work? 
We'll soon see ... the stats of all of my blogs have been steadily increasing over the last few days of my "kahoo-hoos to the wall" project ... and that pleases me greatly!!

What changes will your product or service undergo in the coming years as time progresses and technology changes the way we do things?   It's good to think about this now and begin to plan for it.  You can bet your sweet bippy those phone book salesmen are shrugging their shoulders in this, the year 2010!

Until next time...

Have a Grand and Groovy Day!!
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This Marketing blog o' mine gets left by the wayside a lot....

If I were to tell you how many thoughts, ideas or concepts I have relating to marketing in the average day, it would do two things ....

one, it would make you think I'm a complete and total dork ..... :)
two, it would boggle your mind.....!

I'm going to make a much stronger attempt at recording my thoughts on the nuances of marketing and I'm going to begin with some of the projects I'm working on for myself beginning this week.

I'll let you tag along as I implement the knowledge I already have of marketing AND take notes as I learn all of the new things that are becoming more and more necessary as internet and social media change our shopping behaviors.

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11/01/2010 - Seth Godin - The Best Thing Since Sliced Bread

Seth Godin discusses the slow beginnings of sliced bread, idea diffusion,

consumer behavior and remarkability.

Enjoy!