From TwinCities.com: Managers at a St. Paul sports bar have apologized to American Indian groups and pulled a Thanksgiving-weekend marketing campaign after receiving complaints about a racy poster that invited patrons to "drink like an Indian." Since running the ad the bar has been – justifiably – on the receiving end of a lot of [...]
Archive for November, 2010
I hope this is the most offensive ad you see today
Posted: November 30, 2010 in alcohol, Bad ideas, Marketing, Marketing blunders, RacismTags: Bad ideas, humor, Marketing, Marketing blunder
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A moment of silence for one of the greats … Leslie Nielsen
Posted: November 29, 2010 in A moment of silence for one of the greatsTags: comedy, Forbidden Planet, leslie nielsen, Naked Gun
So much is being written about him that I don’t really have anything to add. This poster hangs on the wall at CollateralDamage HQ. I first saw it before Airplane, Naked Gun, etc., and loved it. I have to say when I saw it after those movies came out it felt much different – and [...]
Lies, Damned Lies & Black Friday sales figures
Posted: November 22, 2010 in Black Friday, Cyber Monday, Economy, Lies, MarketingTags: Black Friday, black friday sales, Cyber Monday, lies, Marketing, statistics
It’s that time of year again, so everyone get ready for the annual storm of Black Friday BS. Stories about the success of Black Friday/Cyber Monday are as inevitable as taxes and death but nowhere near as reliable. It goes like this: "Great Black Friday sales numbers mean a big shopping season. Insert somebody’s numbers [...]
Japan launches anime series with fetishized school girls explaining the management theories of Peter Drucker
Posted: November 16, 2010 in Anime, Japan, Marketing, Peter DruckerTags: Anime, branding, business, Business books, Japan, management, Marketing, Moshi-dora, Peter Drucker
The series is an animated adaptation of Natsumi Iwasaki‘s business novel Moshi Kōkō Yakyū no Joshi Manager ga Drucker no Management o Yondara which translates into "If A Female High School Baseball Team Manager Read Drucker’s ‘Management’…" The original book has sold 1.3 MILLION copies in J-land. The novel is about a high school girl [...]
The latest word in banana protection technology … no, that’s not a euphemism
Posted: November 15, 2010 in Banana, Banana Guard, Is This Product Really Necessary?, Marketing, Marketing to kidsTags: Banana protector, Bananas, humor, Is This Product Really Necessary?, Marketing, Marketing to children
First there was the hard-case banana protector and now – the inflatable version. I’ve always thought bananas came pre-protected. Isn’t that what the peel is for? I’m always puzzled when I see people in the grocery store putting bananas into a plastic bag. What does that accomplish? Nor do I understand the squeamishness over a [...]
The Dukes of Moral Hazard: The Dangers of Quantitative Easing
Posted: November 11, 2010 in Bankruptcy, Banks, Economy, Federal Reserve, Mortgages, ProPublicaTags: Banks, Economy, Fed, Federal Reserve, Mortgage, Mortgages, ProPublica, Quantitative Easing
This brilliant and terrifying column was originally published at ProPublica and is republished here under a Creative Commons license. by Jesse Eisinger ProPublica, Nov. 10, 2010, 2:40 p.m. Across the world, there are booms. Chinese Internet companies are flourishing. Energy companies are finding new sources of power. Commercial real estate is coming back. Unfortunately, [...]
The toughest negotiation: How Hillary and Bill figure out where to eat.
Posted: November 9, 2010 in Bill clinton, Clinton, Hillary ClintonTags: Bill Clinton, Dinner, Funny, Hillary Clinton, Negotiations
I love this. It’s from a radio show that Secretary of State Clinton did in Australia: Question: It all requires excellent patience, great negotiation skills. Your husband also possesses those qualities. When you two can’t agree on what to get for takeaway dinner, who wins out in that type of negotiation? Clinton: We practice different [...]
