Photoshop 101- Tips & No-nos
Woo! What a DIG we had this morning. Lots of familiar and new faces in the crowd- it was nice to see all of you. We discussed Photoshop best practices and covered some basic to-dos and even answered some more advanced Photoshop questions posed by our sharp DIG students. (What the heck are layers??!!) A lot of folks came to learn how to better communicate with their designers or clients- so important to a happy “graphic” relationship!...
Dot-Com-Munication comes to Bowling Green!
Professor Rob, I have a question — How do we make our website so awesome that it totally integrates with social media? For all Diggers who attended the DIG in BG today, we received the answer to just that question. Call it going back to school. Call it “we learned a thing or two today”. Call it what ever you want, but I think we can all agree it was well worth our time. Rob Blackford knows his stuff. Yes, I said it, his stuff....
May Bowling Green DIG: PR 101
Toyota. Ring a bell? Yeah, figured it did. Come on, tell me what you really feel about this brand, especially now. They’ve taken a few sucker punches in the last few months haven’t they? It was through their PR efforts, or lack thereof, that we learned just how damaging a situation can become. At our Bowling Green DIG last week, David Green shared with us his philosophy of good PR and how we all should go about such activities. If...
An Ode to the Early Adopters of Social Marketing
I have a confession. I am not an “early adopter.” I said it out loud! I am NOT AN EARLY ADOPTER!!! I’m not sure WHAT to call myself, because professionally, I am a studier, predictor, strategy finder and lover of our early adopting friends. I know them, understand them and appreciate how they, as consumers of our client’s goods and services, keep us marketing types on our toes. They surprise us, and cause us to innovate. I “heart” them. This...
Social Marketing Puzzle
What I’m learning about Social Media marketing is that every 48 hours the information I thought was cutting edge becomes irrelevant. New tools and technologies are coming online hourly, users are opting in in droves and are finding new ways to communicate, sell and sway opinion. I used to think that Google Adwords was the hardest media tool to wrangle, but strategizing for retail use of FourSquare, Yelp and finding the “best” blog platform and...
Details for Labor and Employment Law Briefing
The Business of Sports
Yesterday’s DIG in Nashville was a special treat. My friend and client, Rob Bironas, was our special guest. Rob and I spent the 90 minutes talking about the business of football. We broke down the “org chart” of the NFL and even talked about how the athletes make money. Rob talked about the ins and outs of the “Franchise Tag” and about roster bonuses, but also about why he made the decision to handle his career with a plan in mind. Rob not...
March BG DIG: Marketing Planning 101
Oh, how I love to DIG in! Today’s content was about meat and potatoes. Obviously, not literally, about meat and potatoes, but when you live and breathe marketing planning for a living, teaching Marketing Planning 101 is my version of soul food. I shared the basic principles of marketing strategy and walked through the steps – one at a time. The group reviewed a sample marketing plan and chuckled together as they saw common pitfalls and...
March Nashville DIG: Designing a Website to Integrate with Social Media
Whoa, baby. If you missed the 3.18 DIG with Rob Blackford, you really missed a heap of information!! My introduction of Rob to the group of 40-something that came to participate involved words like “repeat offender entrepreneur” and “technical genius.” However, Rob is also one of my favorite people who happens to run a Nashville web and technology company called Design615. We work together weekly (sometimes daily), and our staffers lean on...
February DIG: Hammers & Thumbs
Today, I had the distinct pleasure of serving as tour guide to a group of trusting fellow marketers through the world of marketing blunders. We relived New Coke, grumbled at the iPhone repricing debacle of 2007, and laughed at Snapple’s big idea of 2005 to create the world’s largest ice pop. (It melted – everywhere – in the middle of New York.) What we learned today is that if we make marketing decisions based in strategy, we are far less...
