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  • Buy A Weezer Album... Get a Snuggie?

    November 3rd, 2009 / Comments (2)

    Weezer’s doing something interesting to promote their new album. They’re running direct response TV ads that let you get an exclusive Weezer Blue Snuggie with your order of Raditude, their new CD. For an additional $20, you get the Raditude Deluxe CD + Exclusive Weezer Zebra Snuggie + Photo Book. Rad idea to market to their hipster audience.

    Via AgencySpy

  • Please Help Local Hero Marian Halliday

    November 3rd, 2009 / Comments (4)

    While Marian Halliday has been charged with bringing Unisource paper and creative paper ideas to the masses in our community for the last several decades, she always came armed with so much more. A veritable database of who’s hot, who’s not, who’s hiring and what’s shaking in the scene here in Denver, Marian has been responsible for getting many of us our first jobs in the creative world or getting us out of the jobs we just couldn’t stomach any longer. Maybe even you.

    Last Friday, Marian Halliday was laid off from Unisource – a victim of the economy and the floundering paper industry. Her position was eliminated altogether from Unisource across the country. She’s looking for the next place to put her very real skills to work. If she ever helped you (and even if she didn’t), open your eyes for a good place for Marian to land. It’d be a good thing to do for a good person. You can reach her at 303.748.3205.

  • Digital Firms, Get Listed on Haystack

    November 3rd, 2009 / Comments (0)

    The enviable crew at 37signals launched a rather useful tool about two weeks ago, both in terms of being able to find a digital firm located in your city as well as being able to promote your agency – no matter where you are in the country.

    Haystack is a site where web designers (firms and freelancers) can answer the three basic questions a client typically asks at the beginning of a search:

    • What does your work look like?
    • Where are you located?
    • What’s your typical budget range?

    This is what clients want to know. Haystack lays it all out for them. Browsing on Haystack is like browsing dozens of web designers sites, but browsing them all on the same page. It makes finding the right web designer significantly easier than the old fashioned way (finding and browsing dozens of different designer’s sites). Clients can favorite firms they like and review them all on one page (that’s nicely printable and sharable, too).

    So far, 30 Denver/Boulder firms have gotten hip to listing themselves. A basic listing is free’ the pro package is $99 a month. It’d be a smart idea to do one or the other right now.

  • The Rise of Small Banks

    November 3rd, 2009 / Comments (9)

    The New York Times had an article yesterday on the growing marketing savvy of small banks, attempting to move customers away from mega-banks that needed (and gladly took) bailout money from the gov. For most of these small banks, their ad messaging concentrates on the solid, trustworthy nature of local banks. The article includes mention of the FirstBank ad campaign TDA Advertising & Design, Boulder has been engineering.

  • Stacks Group Task Management Tool From Imulus

    November 3rd, 2009 / Comments (4)

    Seems like every existing piece of task management software has some nit that makes it annoying to use. Creative Manager is too complex, Clients & Profits is difficult to assign work and Basecamp is a little too basic. We’re hoping our friends at Boulder interactive firm Imulus have perfected all these issues with Stacks. They’ve launched the private beta, soon to make the system public, after testing and working out all the kinks over the last three years. Sign up for the beta.

  • Nood Leon

    November 3rd, 2009 / Comments (1)

    I’m Nood Leon, the Official Unofficial Spokesman for Nissin Foods. In recent months Nissin, the maker of such fine products as Cup Noodles and Top Ramen, decided to incorporate my name into their new slogan Noodle On. They did this without my knowledge or permission.

    However, rather than take legal action, I have done what any enterprising Internet entrepreneur would do, I appointed myself their Unofficial Spokesman and have launched a grassroots effort to gain the support of the people. Once I am Internet famous, this will force the people at Nissin to acknowledge what they have done, and pay me some of that sweet, sweet Noodle money. Please help me spread the word! Please help me show Nissin that the world supports Nood Leon!

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