You Can’t Display Cigarettes in Vancouver, BC
As I understand it, Vancouver, BC has banned the display of cigarettes in convenience stores, which has led to some interesting adjustments. It’s common to see an entire wall of nicotine behind the register of a convenience store – heck, the SuperAmerica by my house is basically a tobacco shop / casino – so what [...]
Yellow Pages Spam Strikes Vancouver
Print Yellow Pages spam isn’t just an American problem. Here’s a shot from earlier this week in Vancouver where a stack of CanPages books have gone unwanted: Sadly, Vancouver businesses paid for ads in those books. Ads they expected might be seen by prospective customers. Ads that will never be seen by anyone.
CityPages.com Serves Local Ads to International Visitors
When a local advertiser buys an ad in a local newspaper, they do so because they want to reach a local audience. That seems pretty clear. The local business has chosen to advertise in a local newspaper, magazine, or other printed media because they know it will be distributed within their community to people they [...]
Merwin Liquors Gets Serious about Beer
Minneapolis based Merwin Liquors has added an impressive lineup of Belgian beers to their inventory and now offers same-day free delivery on orders placed before 4pm. If you’re having the kind of day that calls for a Delerium Tremens (750ml of 9.0% ABV pale ale), you can hook yourself up online.
$5 All You Can Eat Spaghetti?
This coming Friday, you can help the youth of America while dining on pasta. As I understand it, many of our inner city kids are raising money for a trip to Wolf Ridge Environmental Learning Center, which should be one heck of a great learning and relationship building experience for these kids. You can help [...]
Yellow Pages Losing to Mobile Phones
This is an interesting point for the head of communications for the Yellow Pages industry to be making: “Most Americans turn to online resources for local search.” Local Searches Set to Flip to Mobile Phone Presently, two-thirds (64%) of Americans say they generally turn to online resources for local search, while 33% turn to print, [...]
Omni CNN Hotel TP
Senior TP Correspondent, David Erickson, has filed a report from Atlanta with the following shots. David goes the extra mile by getting close-up side angles: Looks like a nice place, eh? I have no idea why David is down there (other than for toilet paper folding documenting, which can justify a trip) so I’ll just [...]
Shopping for a Canon SD880IS Camera: Amazon.com vs BestBuy.com
I recently found myself in the market for a new point & shoot digital camera after putting my last one through the wash. It turns out that cameras don’t need to be laundered. I’m a huge fan of Canon’s Powershot point & shoots. Especially the ones with wide angle lenses because they’re great for indoor [...]
Can You Trust Craigslist Beggars?
Have free online classifieds sites made begging easier? I have no idea if it works, but here’s someone who’s giving it a try (the highlighting is mine): The reason for the highlighting is what I found related to this over on Craiglist: and and What the heck is going on here? How can someone’s family [...]
Idea: Public Service Banner Advertising
Here’s an idea for online branding through banner ads. Pretty much everyone using social networking sites like Facebook and MySpace is sick of ads for dating services, credit score analysis, and weight loss services. Those industries seems to be the only three that do anything with the vast supplies of remnant impressions available on sites [...]
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