Hi, I'm Tommy. I'm a writer, designer, tech geek, hiker, golfer, and sometime photographer. I live just outside St. Louis, Missouri (Illinois side). I currently work as a freelance technology and interactive marketing consultant.
A post on the Google AdWords blog caught my attention today. The AdWords Optimization Team is now accepting requests from advertisers who want feedback on their campaigns. Simply fill out this form and outline your advertising goals and objectives and they’ll take a look at your web site, campaign structure, ad copy, and keywords. Then […]
I don’t know how I missed this. Just call 1-800-GOOG-411 give me the info on the number you want and they’ll find it and connect you for free. This is a wonderful service for lazy people like myself that prefer to use 411 then look around for a phone book or hop online.
The new Cohen Brother’s movie, No Country for Old Men (NYT review here), is set to open nation-wide on November 21. The movie is an adaptation from Cormac McCarthy
Update: I have been informed that this is an ad for Nationwide Insurance and not Coop’s Paint, so I changed the subject line. That Coudal is saying it is for Coop’s paint would be cause I didn’t do enough research. My bad!
A landing page, sometimes known as a lead capture page, is a page that appears when a potential customer clicks on an advertisement, a search-engine result, or embedded email link.These special pages (no not your home page) will usually display content that is a logical extension of the advertisement or link from which the prospect […]
Until the MacBook Pro came out I’ve always felt if price was not a consideration the IBM ThinkPad was the best laptop on the market. So I was pretty surprised when IBM sold the brand to China-based Lenovo for $1.75 billion in 2005. Well it seems to have worked pretty well for Lenovo. In the […]
This is just great. Chris Anderson the Editor in Chief of Wired Magazine and the author of The Long Tail has had it with PR flacks and he is fighting back. I’ll let him explain from a recent blog post of his.
I’ve had it. I get more than 300 emails a day and my […]
By: Jim Woodring
Title: Pleased As Punch
Site: The Woodring Monitor
I’m not sure the exact “category” art like this falls into. I don’t know, maybe a “modern day” Hieronymus Bosch? But I could look at stuff like this for hours on end. Go take a look at his art. A lot of neat stuff.
Today at lunch it is a trip to Best Buy to pick-up the Twin Peaks Definitive Gold Box Edition. This is a ten DVD set of David Lynch’s “cult like” TV series. I missed Twin Peaks the first time around and somehow in reruns. But folks that have very similar tastes in books, movies, and […]
Tickets are in hand for Body Worlds 3 at the St. Louis Science Center. I can’t wait. One of the things I miss about living in Washington DC is all the great exhibits that come through town, like the current Edward Hopper show at the National Gallery of Art.
What has been pretty amazing is all […]
As a marketing consultant, next to “what will it cost,” “what is a brand” is about the most asked question (usually after I mentioned it in conversation). And for good reason. According to Dictionary.com.
Brand Name
Pop! Tech, a very cool and unique conference is streaming live (Windows Media Player required) from October 18-20. The conference is unlike any I am aware of. Pop! Tech brings together more than 500 visionary thinkers in the sciences, technology, business, design, the arts, education, government, and culture. If you have a couple minutes over […]
Not normally a fan of these types of lists. However, this is a quality list. Found at least 4-5 blogs I’ll most likely check out close to daily I’d never see before. They only issue I have is the large number of entries from Gawker and GigaOm’s networks. I just wish when lists like this […]
The cost to try to influence the 2008 election could exceed $3 billion, according to TNS Media Intelligence/Campaign Media Analysis Group.
This is nearly twice as much than what was spent in 2004 ($1.7 billion). Well happy days for the networks and cable outlets, but my gosh, as an active TV viewer I am not looking […]