Facebook or Die

Funny I went to a NAMA meeting yesterday about online marketing and one of the takeaways was that if you’re not on some kind of social media site, you don’t exist. That’s an oversimplification over exaggeration of what the panel said. But looky here: http://adweek.blogs.com/adfreak/2011/01/soon-your-life-will-be-nothing-but-facebook.html

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Two Seconds of Fame

My dad’s restaurant was profiled on the Food Network and my dad couldn’t stop talking about it when I went to go visit him. He’s responsible for the Slippery Shrimp dish so he gets about ten seconds of camera time, two of which you get to see his face and the rest you get to see his hands. Below are some of the gems I was able to capture while he was rambling on about the “commercial”.

- director kept telling me what to say and what to do, she might as well have taught me how to cook!
- when yao ming came to play the lakers, channel 5 put us on the news right in the middle of a laker game, we were so busy afterwards, just like we are now after this commercial
- i don’t need to cook on thursday, i was on tv!
- customers come back to sneak a peak inside the kitcen, so when i walk out into the restaraunt, i pretend to not see anyone so people won’t recognize me
- it’s so difficult to get on tv, i was the only one who made it on the tv!
- the commercial nationwide!!!
- how did they get the commercial onto the cd? it’s amazing. did they record live?
- business is so good now that we have a commercial

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Frenemies, Not Enemies

Nothing explains economics better than an animated rap video. Economists sure like to rap.

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Econ Spin Machine

Hat tip to Froeb.

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Swagger Wagon

Like: Love the usage of mainstream hip hop and clever rhymes. Target demographic is 30-40 year old mother-fathers. Ad will plant a seed in the mind of younger viewers.
Dislike: Nothing
Improvement: Incorporate more of the Sienna’s features into the lyrics.

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