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The Secret of Sure-Fire Headlines

Copyblogger has a great collection of headlines that grab attention. I have condensed them below: 1. Who Else Wants [blank]?2. The Secret of [blank]3. Here is a Method That is Helping [blank] to [blank]4. Little Known Ways to [blank]5. Get Rid of [problem] Once and For All6. Here’s a Quick Way to [solve a problem]7. […]

What Everybody Ought to Know About Herbergers

On Halloween night, when we went shopping, Tandra told me before we left that we get a coupon for 20% an item if you bring in a canned good for some food drive thing at Herbergers. Since we were both planning on buying multiple pairs of jeans for our upcoming trip to Vegas (tomorrow yeah!), […]

Microsoft sticks it to Mac users

For all Mac users that virtualize Windows, expect to pay a premium price for the next version: http://www.appleinsider.com/article.php?id=2164 Technorati Tags: apple, virtual, virtualization, windows, parallels, price, cost

That Girl Emily – viral marketing stunt

Turns out That Girl Emily is a viral marketing campaign. For those of you who didn’t hear/know about this it was a blog created last month “by the urging of my best friend” that turns out the same said friend is sleeping with her husband which she found out through a private eye hired by […]

HorsePigCow on Marketing

Tara Hunt lists the Top 10 things Pinko Marketers [regret having] to repeat to some clients: Viral? You may want to take something for that. You want to target teenage girls on MySpace? Have you ever been a teenage girl on MySpace? What do you mean you want to design a social tagging application that […]