I recently rented a car through Avis in Minneapolis, and followed up with them after the fact to make sure I wasn’t added to any print distribution lists, including their own. I’m quite familiar with their company so don’t really need anything in the mail from them, or from any companies their affiliated with. Here [...]
Kate reminded me of an issue that’s interested me for a while now and deserves more attention. Baby carrots vs adult carrots. Adult Carrots at Seward Coop I also didn’t peel my carrots, and I’ve demanded baby carrots never enter my house again. You know they aren’t actually mini carrots right? They are just carrots [...]
Alan Wyman went all the way to Seattle to check out the TP at the Hotel Vintage Park. Here’s his take on this scene: “The roll on the wall was nice, but the spare roll on top of the toilet was much more impressive.” Agreed. The secondar roll is so nice, it probably makes people [...]
I recently took a tour of the 100 Minnesota based blogs that make up the Newsbobber 100 to get a feel for what people are writing about in this state, and came away with a few observations regarding media relations. If you’d like to see more of your ideas reach a larger audience, this post [...]
Here’s a little tip on how you can buy gift cards to many popular online and offline retailers at a discount. 1. Go to Bing.com and join their Cashback program. For those of you who aren’t familiar with Bing, it’s the recently rebranded search engine owned by Microsoft. As a marketing deal, they’re running a [...]
Two closed schools in South Minneapolis may see new life as Senior Housing projects, according to the report below from 12 Ward Citycouncilperson Sandy Colvin Roy’s newsletter (Sign up to receive it here): Senior Housing Proposed for Howe and Northrup School sites Minneapolis Public Schools has entered into an agreement with United Properties (UP), the [...]
I thought it might be fun to take a look at where CityPages’ Blotter stories originate. To do this, I mined through 3 months of CityPages Blotter stories that were later dugg on Digg.com and logged who the Blotter was riffing off (that’s riFFing): The blue slice represents original work. These are often multi-page slide [...]
According to Mike Stewart at DallasSeoGuru, Idearc Media’s President of Marketing and Transformation (the company that published the Verizon Superpages) has found a new way to screw local businesses. She inserted an ad for her husband’s business in a new category that’s alphabetically just before all of his competitors: Apparently the latest news is that [...]
Within an article about the yellow pages industry on TheStreet.com is this shocking nugget about just how little action print yellow pages are receiving in 2009: This year, 39% of customers looking for business phone numbers used the Yellow Pages, down from 46% in 2005, according to data from Wiese Research Associates. As I read [...]
The whole “Target target’s” thing was ripped straight from the first 10 seconds of the story out of Detroit: I dig that FOX went with the breastfeeding shots in their story. Since this story was about a mother, the comments immediately degraded into the typical hell hole mothering debate. An anonymous commenter fired the first [...]
