Mindblown: a blog about philosophy.

  • Quick Win Client Relations Idea!

    Any sales person worth his salt can tell you, keeping a client happy is more than half the battle won. I found this site and thought that it makes for an interesting idea for quick wins, you know, bringing a smile to the face type of thing? Here is what I found: CouponChief.com! Now, what…

  • This is one cool mom…

    When I started to blog, I wanted to share some fun marketing ideas, maybe get a few laughs. But as I worked towards writing more articles, I also found many interesting people with interesting blogs online. One of the interesting blogs that I came acros was http://eliza-writes.livejournal.com/ Quite frankly, I cannot recall exactly how I…

  • Wow! Famous Slogans that are still used after 100 years!

    When you think of antiques, you think of musty old stuff. Mostly, they are no longer used, no longer useful, in fact. But I just realised that “old” don’t mean “out”! Reading Vivienne’s 7 Famous Slogans of 20th Century really blew my mind! Can you imagine using the same advertising slogan for a hundred years?…

  • Sponsored: Interview of an $87 Million Adwords Spender

    Can you imagine anything more fun than spending $87 million on Adwords? Read that again. EIGHTY-SEVEN MILLION (millions) Dollars! But you know, the real kicker is this: what if you can do this without spending a single cent? Someone has done it. I guess in the world of modern marketing where earning revenues mean spending…

  • Leadership – Promote Cooperation and Trust in your team

    Leaders have a problem – is the team really following you? Just because everyone seems to be moving in the same direction does not mean that everyone is on the same team! The Chinese has a very nice saying for this “Same bed, different dreams” Of course, that saying originally pointed at broken marriages, but…

  • Positive Marketing? What’s that!?

    We all gripe about how bad customer service has been. Seems like “in the old days” everything was better. But I just saw a post over at Dave Olson‘s blog that actually brought a delighted smile to my wrinkled face! Well, actually, it was the one about that Starbuck’s encounter recounted by Phil that did…

  • New Twist to the TV Game Shows!

    I told you, marketing is really fun! Just take a look at this new site that just came up: WhoGets.com (www.whogets.com) In a nutshell, this site uses the really classic format of a “game show” where contestants join in the hopes of winning a prize. This is an Online sweepstakes contest!Now, the twist they have…

  • Links – Better Early than Late!

    The problem with link directories is simply this: there are so many of them! Yet, it seems that there can never be enough of them. Every link directory you can find that is of any worth is already chock full of so many sites, you really wonder if anyone can find anything. Well, I found…

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