I've seen my fair share of odd swag given away at tradeshows, but a yardstick seemed last night to beat everything. Imagine leaving the Internet Retailer Web Design and Usability Conference and trying to get through security at Orlando International ...
I'm probably in the minority when I say I'm a fan (or was a fan) of Burger King's coffee, BK Joe. I wouldn;t seek it out, per se, but if given the option of having coffee at a fast-food restaurant, I'd get a cup at McDonald's or BK. But the ...
So the biggest surprise I heard today: The majority of the attendees at the Internet Retailer Web Design and Usability show have not heard of the online retailer Threadless. Speaking during a session called "Designing your web site to create social ...
"Please come and see us?" I was asked by a vendor whose booth was tucked away in a black hole of the exhibit hall of the Internet Retailer Web Design Show, here at the Hyatt Regency Grand Cypress in Orlando. The exhibit hall, actually, is hopping, ...
Just a heads-up, I'm going to tweet from the Internet Retailer Web Design & Usability Conference today and tomorrow. Out feed: http://twitter.com/mcmerchant. Will people care? Who knows. What do you think about live tweets from tradeshows? Good, bad ...
You can think of the Super Bowl as just about our last grand-scale regularly scheduled national mass-media event. Now that the nightly network news has been supplanted by blogs and RSS feeds, the late-night talk shows have given up the ghost, and ...
BMW, the iconic car maker, is changing up its ad campaign, ditching power and performance for joy. The company says the new work more accurately reflects the mood of its consumers, who have traded in luxury for frugality. Here's a peek at the new ...
Meh: That
When we were looking to "go Web 2.0" with the Chief Marketer Network's Websites back in 2008, the topic of article commenting came up. The team that was assembled had asked if there were any vendors who had a plug-in that would work with our site, or if ...
