5ives: Turn Your Office Into A Think Tank For Under $30
Spreadsheets are a great way to organize passwords. Empty boxes are a great way to archive. So how do you create an inspired environment without costly aroma therapy or ski ball? I love being cheap when it comes to office decorum, but that's because I enjoy the finer...
Password Overload
If you have been using the Internet for any time now, you probably have noticed something... you have a ton of passwords and user accounts you need to keep track of! Twitter, Facebook, Linked-in, Google Analytics, your blog site, your webmail, your online banking -...
Billy Mays: An Era Without An Heir
Billy Mays represented everything I hate about advertising creative and everything I love about advertising principles. Save the occasional Little Giant DRTV program, I fear the pitchmen of the world are doomed. From a creative standpoint, Direct Response TV (DRTV)...
Boycott Microsoft Outlook
Or, if you're tied to it - maybe you can just help Microsoft fix it - http://fixoutlook.org/ Why is this important? Microsoft is holding back the creativity of the web by forcing web designers to use old, broken, and outdated methods to display and layout their work...
Deductability Threat Moves to House
In an update to our post about the Serious Threat to Advertising Deductibility: When it rains, it pours. As you know, disallowing the federal tax deduction for prescription drug advertising is being discussed in the Senate Finance Committee as a source of revenue for...
Urgent Action Needed – Serious Threat to Advertising Deductibility
Earlier today we received the following in an email from Clark Rector, Executive Vice President-Government Affairs for the American Advertising Federation. We thought it was worth sharing with our readers: The Senate Finance Committee today is discussing revenue...
WordPress MU – Taming the Beast
I just finished up a project that involved an impromptu introduction to Wordpress MU - THE mother of all blog-related projects for Absolute (so far). In about one month, we set up 27 blog sites (one of which is a site to rule them all), developed 3 unique themes (with...
Absolute Marketing Group Welcomes Josie Danz as Media Buyer
Absolute Marketing Group announces the hiring of Josie Danz as a Media Buyer. Danz's responsibilities include media placement across all advertising media including print, television, radio, online, mobile and social media. Danz, 22, is a native of Fargo, ND. Before...
Twitter Marketing 101
Until a few months ago, Twitter didn't mean much to the Fargo-Moorhead community. And to many in North Dakota and Western Minnesota, it still doesn't mean much. The purpose of this article is to not only provide an introduction to Twitter, but to demonstrate how this...