Advertising Age tells us today about Gay Gaddis, the Texas cattlewoman behind tech shop, T3. Ms. Gaddis, 50, and her husband, Lee, run an 800-acre working cattle ranch, about an hour and a half outside of Austin, near Marble Falls. "The land gives you a different set of values," said Ms. Gaddis, president-CEO of Austin marketing firm T3. "It gives a wholeness that guides a lot of who we are. It translates into how I …
Doggin’ It All The Way To The Bank
Nina Munk, a former writer for Fortune and a freelance writer for Vanity Fair, launched Urbanhound.com in 2000. The pet-friendly site is now expanding to San Francisco and Chicago. According to the New York Times, Munk represents a new type of business journalist—one with the will to step into an entrepreneur's shoes. With the pages of their own newspapers and magazines full of articles about cutbacks, buyouts and …
The Concierge’s Blazer
According to Lewis Lazare, Hotel Monaco, a division of Kimptom Hotels, will begin to sell its staff outfits to customers who want to look at home in the lobby. Of course these aren't exactly standard-issue hotel uniforms. Underscoring the Monaco's penchant for always displaying good taste, the small chain tapped noted fashion designer and Chicago native Cynthia Rowley to do the honors of giving Monaco employees a …
Citizen Reporters: The Bloatosphere’s Minority Party
photo courtesy of Flickr user, Lynetter The above figure comes from the recent Pew report on blogging, which you can learn more about here, here or here. There are a lot of ways to process the information presented by Pew. The image above focuses positively on the the idea that one third of bloggers see what they do as journalism. Whereas, my headline, takes the same data in a different direction. …
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How It’s Done
Former Wieden + Kennedy brand planner, Russell Davies, just drew a well marked path out of mediocrity, for any soul brave enough to follow it. 1. Hire advertising people, you get advertising 2. The key to creative genius; work harder 3. You can't divorce the medium from the message 4. Do good work, the money will follow 5. Hold everyone to the same standard 6. You can tell from the work if people enjoyed making it 7. …
Jessica Simpson Is New Cover Girl For Anti-DRM Movement
USA Today is running a story on the clue Sony BMG just got. Jessica Simpson's "A Public Affair" went on sale this week at Yahoo Music, and unlike every digital song sold on competitors Apple iTunes, Napster and Rhapsody, it is compatible with all portable music players. The song is in the open MP3 format and can be transferred to an Apple iPod or players by Creative, Samsung and others. Record labels have refused to …
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“It’s Not A Big Truck. It’s A Series Of Tubes.”
powered by ODEO Senator Ted Stevens' finest hour, all mashed up for your listening pleasure. …
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One Task. Many Mediums.
After picking up U.S. consumer promotion and co-marketing duties on the Jimmy Dean, Ball Park, Hillshire Farm, Senseo and Sara Lee brands, Lisa Hurwitz, senior VP-business development and marketing at Arc Worldwide, said: "Retail is really the new consumer battleground. So you have a captive audience in the shopper and figuring out how to capture her attention at retail has become a real critical point for marketers, …