http://blogs.aquent.com/aquentblog/ work inspired en-us Tue, 27 Oct 2009 16:12:29 EST Tue, 27 Oct 2009 16:12:29 EST http://cyber.law.harvard.edu/rss/rss.html Movable Type Pro 4.33-en 60 http://blogs.aquent.com/aquentblog/2009/10/attraction_to_do_good_brands_is_escalating.html Would you change your shopping habits to make the world a better place? According to new findings from Edelman Worldwide's "goodpurpose Consumer Study" (as reported in Mediapost.com), of the 6,000 people surveyed in 10 countries, "61% say they have purchased... Tue, 27 Oct 2009 15:45:41 EST tag:blogs.aquent.com,2009:/aquentblog//11.2210 Julia Thahar Ethics Market Research Marketing Practice: Marketing Sales http://blogs.aquent.com/aquentblog/2009/09/its_fontastic_or_not.html It seems the favorite affordable store of Designers all over the world IKEA, has just stepped down a notch in they eyes of many of their fans.Yes, they've switched their font selection for both print and Web materials from Futura... Thu, 10 Sep 2009 15:46:01 EST tag:blogs.aquent.com,2009:/aquentblog//11.2175 Tim Donnelly Advertising Branding Design Practice: Graphic Design Sales Tim's A Day in the Life Blog http://blogs.aquent.com/aquentblog/2009/07/hmmm_i_wonder_what_they_really_meant.html Mon, 06 Jul 2009 13:00:00 EST tag:blogs.aquent.com,2009:/aquentblog//11.2096 Kelly Boykin Sales http://blogs.aquent.com/aquentblog/2009/07/hope_is_not_a_strategy.html Thu, 02 Jul 2009 13:02:50 EST tag:blogs.aquent.com,2009:/aquentblog//11.2101 Kelly Boykin Sales http://blogs.aquent.com/aquentblog/2009/01/ballistic_customer_service.html Here's a first, but probably not last. A Northern California dentist is suing a customer who posted bad review regarding the dentist's services on Yelp. The dentist and her lawyer have dropped their suit against Yelp because, according to SFGate.com,... Thu, 15 Jan 2009 20:49:44 EST tag:blogs.aquent.com,2009:/butlessaboutme//7.1851 Tim Donnelly Current Affairs Marketing Sales Tim's A Day in the Life Blog Web/Tech Weblogs http://blogs.aquent.com/aquentblog/2008/12/bev_no.html It's true, I'm not a big shopper. In fact, I don't like to shop much at all. So you can imagine how much fun it must be to hang out with me around the holiday season. And why exactly, Tim,... Mon, 22 Dec 2008 20:47:56 EST tag:blogs.aquent.com,2008:/butlessaboutme//7.1806 Tim Donnelly Food and Drink Sales Tim's A Day in the Life Blog http://blogs.aquent.com/aquentblog/2008/10/fight.html I'm man enough, my friend, to admit my wife KO'd me twice last night in Wii Boxing (perhaps, though, not man enough to let you know how our Wii Tennis match turned out).Maybe it's just that we're all under siege... Mon, 20 Oct 2008 20:25:08 EST tag:blogs.aquent.com,2008:/butlessaboutme//7.1687 Tim Donnelly Current Affairs Marketing Personal Blogging Sales Tim's A Day in the Life Blog Web/Tech http://blogs.aquent.com/aquentblog/2008/09/who_moved_my_peanut_butter.html Why is the fact that people are arguing about peanut butter important? Is it important? I guess time will tell what kind of effect a site like Mouse Print, which "exposes the strings and catches buried in the fine... Fri, 12 Sep 2008 15:18:58 EST tag:blogs.aquent.com,2008:/butlessaboutme//7.1568 Tim Donnelly Design Food and Drink Marketing Sales Tim's A Day in the Life Blog http://blogs.aquent.com/aquentblog/2008/08/the_giving_web.html The future keeps getting brighter, doesn't it? Hear me out... what about a Website that changes according to whatever you like to see in sites. Say one that senses whether or not you are detail oriented (and let's face... Thu, 21 Aug 2008 21:42:34 EST tag:blogs.aquent.com,2008:/butlessaboutme//7.1527 Tim Donnelly Sales Tim's A Day in the Life Blog Web/Tech http://blogs.aquent.com/aquentblog/2008/06/roi_4_u.html I was just reading our HQ blog by Matt Grant and learned our recent Webcast, Web Design for ROI: How Design Impacts the Bottom Line, had a massive draw of 2,000 people sign up. And the slides, featured last... Fri, 06 Jun 2008 15:00:29 EST tag:blogs.aquent.com,2008:/butlessaboutme//7.1474 Tim Donnelly Design Marketing Sales Tim's A Day in the Life Blog Web/Tech Weblogs http://blogs.aquent.com/aquentblog/2008/05/not_so_fab_4.html The rumors of October's Adobe CS4 release apparently have been greatly exaggerated.Photoshop Senior Product Manager, John Nack is saying the information of the release date, passed around by Gizmodo and TG Daily, is bogus. "I didn't say anything about... Wed, 28 May 2008 19:17:57 EST tag:blogs.aquent.com,2008:/butlessaboutme//7.1464 Tim Donnelly Art Design Marketing Sales Tim's A Day in the Life Blog Web/Tech Weblogs http://blogs.aquent.com/aquentblog/2008/05/and_how_may_i_d.html If Customer Segmentation gives you goose bumps and Email Opt Out Preferences keeps you from paying close attention to Flavor of Love 3, then the DMA has just the thing for you. Yes, a full 8 virtual seminars on... Wed, 07 May 2008 20:11:55 EST tag:blogs.aquent.com,2008:/butlessaboutme//7.1435 Tim Donnelly Marketing Sales Tim's A Day in the Life Blog http://blogs.aquent.com/aquentblog/2008/04/is_your_company.html By now you've heard the expression Greenwashing, right? A marketing team decides they want to join the Eco Bandwagon (which, by the way, is getting pretty full) so they play up some "green" part of their company. Say run... Wed, 30 Apr 2008 19:53:13 EST tag:blogs.aquent.com,2008:/butlessaboutme//7.1424 Tim Donnelly Ecology Marketing Sales Tim's A Day in the Life Blog http://blogs.aquent.com/aquentblog/2008/04/loyalty_behavio.html You know, IKEA almost had me. Really. That is, until I found the final piece of my daughter's pink MALM 3-drawer chest I was assembling was nicked. And I rang customer service to find out how they wanted to... Wed, 16 Apr 2008 15:19:04 EST tag:blogs.aquent.com,2008:/butlessaboutme//7.1406 Tim Donnelly Career Design Marketing Sales Tim's A Day in the Life Blog Weblogs http://blogs.aquent.com/aquentblog/2008/03/neuropsychology.html You know there's a lot to be said for friendly competition, which is why I'm going to let you know why our resident Minister of Enlightenment and HQ Blogger, Mr. Matt Grant, has a blog well worth visiting. For... Tue, 18 Mar 2008 18:32:11 EST tag:blogs.aquent.com,2008:/butlessaboutme//7.1372 Tim Donnelly Marketing Sales Science Tim's A Day in the Life Blog Weblogs http://blogs.aquent.com/aquentblog/2008/03/the_power_of_se.html I'm not sure what the heck is going on here, but this guy is giving Sit n Sleep's annoying "You're Killing Me, Larry" ads a run for their money. Now I must run out and buy furniture. It's like a... Fri, 14 Mar 2008 18:38:57 EST tag:blogs.aquent.com,2008:/butlessaboutme//7.1370 Tim Donnelly Marketing Music Sales Tim's A Day in the Life Blog http://blogs.aquent.com/aquentblog/2008/03/doh_for_duh.html How's this for Marketing snafus? (By way of Duh! Marketing Awards) The Bedder Get It Together Award Honorably awarded to Woolworths – a chain of furniture stores in Britain - for introducing "Lolita", a bed targeted for 6-year old... Tue, 11 Mar 2008 17:03:46 EST tag:blogs.aquent.com,2008:/butlessaboutme//7.1367 Tim Donnelly Current Affairs Marketing Sales Tim's A Day in the Life Blog http://blogs.aquent.com/aquentblog/2008/02/natural_mohawk.html Tue, 19 Feb 2008 14:11:10 EST tag:blogs.aquent.com,2008:/butlessaboutme//7.1348 Tim Donnelly Ecology Marketing Personal Blogging Sales Tim's A Day in the Life Blog http://blogs.aquent.com/aquentblog/2008/02/why_ask_y.html Thu, 07 Feb 2008 20:33:03 EST tag:blogs.aquent.com,2008:/butlessaboutme//7.1337 Tim Donnelly Design Marketing Personal Blogging Sales Tim's A Day in the Life Blog http://blogs.aquent.com/aquentblog/2008/01/someone_spent_t.html You can't buy anything from this Dutch company's fake Web page, but dang is this funny. Click here and wait a moment to see what happens. HEMA's real storefront is here .... Thu, 17 Jan 2008 13:10:06 EST tag:blogs.aquent.com,2008:/butlessaboutme//7.1315 Tim Donnelly Design Marketing Sales Tim's A Day in the Life Blog Web/Tech http://blogs.aquent.com/aquentblog/2008/01/you_say_you_wan.html I just spent the holidays back home in Nebraska with my family (and lived to tell about it) and I'd have to say that one of the unexpected pleasures was, weirdly, the Wii. Both my brother's and sister's families both... Mon, 07 Jan 2008 21:47:00 EST tag:blogs.aquent.com,2008:/butlessaboutme//7.1306 Tim Donnelly Games Personal Blogging Sales Sports Tim's A Day in the Life Blog Web/Tech http://blogs.aquent.com/aquentblog/2007/11/greening_up_bla.html As green as some of us want to be, the hard fact is we're going to part with some cash for consumable gifts for others this holiday season. There's good news, though. Every year the blog Treehugger runs a... Fri, 23 Nov 2007 13:13:00 EST tag:blogs.aquent.com,2007:/butlessaboutme//7.1279 Tim Donnelly Books Charity Ecology Personal Blogging Sales Web/Tech http://blogs.aquent.com/aquentblog/2007/11/im_sticking_by.html At home, anyway (hey, I've made it through worse Mac operating systems),but I had to share this banner ad. A good banner ad, who knew? Go to full screen for best effect.... Wed, 21 Nov 2007 16:21:47 EST tag:blogs.aquent.com,2007:/butlessaboutme//7.1276 Tim Donnelly Design Marketing Sales Web/Tech http://blogs.aquent.com/aquentblog/2007/11/attack_of_the_5.html Thu, 01 Nov 2007 20:37:06 EST tag:blogs.aquent.com,2007:/butlessaboutme//7.1264 Tim Donnelly Career Design Marketing Sales http://blogs.aquent.com/aquentblog/2007/09/now_thats_smart.html Wed, 26 Sep 2007 21:12:47 EST tag:blogs.aquent.com,2007:/butlessaboutme//7.1233 Tim Donnelly Design Ecology Marketing Sales Weblogs http://blogs.aquent.com/aquentblog/2007/07/like_a_round_pe.html Wed, 25 Jul 2007 17:10:09 EST tag:blogs.aquent.com,2007:/butlessaboutme//7.1176 Tim Donnelly Career Design Food and Drink Sales Training http://blogs.aquent.com/aquentblog/2007/06/party_over_here.html Fri, 15 Jun 2007 13:06:05 EST tag:blogs.aquent.com,2007:/butlessaboutme//7.1150 Tim Donnelly Current Affairs Sales Web/Tech http://blogs.aquent.com/aquentblog/2007/06/i_put_a_spell_o.html Mon, 11 Jun 2007 20:38:33 EST tag:blogs.aquent.com,2007:/butlessaboutme//7.1145 Tim Donnelly Design Marketing Sales Weblogs http://blogs.aquent.com/aquentblog/2007/06/the_unbearable.html Budweiser hits it well with this viral marketing piece. I've already gotten emailed this video twice today and I'm not surprised: it's too naughty for broadcast TV and is really danged funny. Just think of the money Bud is saving... Fri, 08 Jun 2007 14:26:17 EST tag:blogs.aquent.com,2007:/butlessaboutme//7.1143 Tim Donnelly Food and Drink Marketing Sales http://blogs.aquent.com/aquentblog/2007/05/in_briefs.html Wed, 30 May 2007 18:47:44 EST tag:blogs.aquent.com,2007:/butlessaboutme//7.1132 Tim Donnelly Career Design Marketing Sales Training Web/Tech http://blogs.aquent.com/aquentblog/2007/04/artistic_underw.html Or Creative Briefs, if you will. Aquent, along with the American Marketing Association, is sponsoring a free Web seminar on using creative briefs to link business objectives and creative strategies. Leading the talk will be Emily Cohen, a Creative Consultant... Thu, 12 Apr 2007 14:56:25 EST tag:blogs.aquent.com,2007:/butlessaboutme//7.1086 Tim Donnelly Career Design Sales Training http://blogs.aquent.com/aquentblog/2007/04/youre_killing_m.html If you're wondering whether your e-mail marketing strategies are knocking off your customers one-by-one by driving them to hit the delete button every time they see your company name or clicking the link to unsubscribe, you might want to look... Wed, 04 Apr 2007 17:06:58 EST tag:blogs.aquent.com,2007:/butlessaboutme//7.1077 Tim Donnelly Career Marketing Sales Travel Web/Tech http://blogs.aquent.com/aquentblog/2007/02/intro_to_market.html Even though Easter seems to roll around the calendar every year like those other lunar-based holidays (Chinese New Year, Rosh Hashana, Burning Man), I can always count on our own Debra to show up at my desk every February with... Wed, 28 Feb 2007 17:18:37 EST tag:blogs.aquent.com,2007:/butlessaboutme//7.1039 Tim Donnelly Food and Drink Marketing Sales http://blogs.aquent.com/aquentblog/2007/02/wholly_astounde.html Thu, 22 Feb 2007 20:45:03 EST tag:blogs.aquent.com,2007:/butlessaboutme//7.1035 Tim Donnelly Marketing Sales Web/Tech http://blogs.aquent.com/aquentblog/2007/02/my_breakfast_wi.html You know it's coming up. And you know what you have to do. Yes, I'm speaking about Valentine's Day. And it's in a short 9 days. I was looking through Craigslist for used iMacs the other day when I came... Mon, 05 Feb 2007 21:41:05 EST tag:blogs.aquent.com,2007:/butlessaboutme//7.1016 Tim Donnelly Personal Blogging Sales http://blogs.aquent.com/aquentblog/2007/01/at_your_door_fo.html Last night they came back, the traveling magazine sellers. A couple of guys had come to our door last week, looking to sell us a few magazines to help earn college scholarships. We see these guys a couple times a... Tue, 23 Jan 2007 18:13:01 EST tag:blogs.aquent.com,2007:/butlessaboutme//7.1000 Tim Donnelly Current Affairs Sales http://blogs.aquent.com/aquentblog/2007/01/the_dancing_men.html And so are the tattoos and high kicking sheep, but every time I click to articles from the New York Times to the Sacramento Bee, there they are, incredibly excited because mortgage rates have dropped to an all time low.... Fri, 19 Jan 2007 20:46:13 EST tag:blogs.aquent.com,2007:/butlessaboutme//7.997 Tim Donnelly Career Design Marketing Sales Web/Tech Weblogs http://blogs.aquent.com/aquentblog/2006/12/duck_season_rab.html Wed, 13 Dec 2006 16:09:41 EST tag:blogs.aquent.com,2006:/butlessaboutme//7.970 Tim Donnelly Career Design Marketing Sales Web/Tech Weblogs http://blogs.aquent.com/aquentblog/2006/11/direct_mail_on.html Wed, 15 Nov 2006 19:57:24 EST tag:blogs.aquent.com,2006:/butlessaboutme//7.952 Tim Donnelly Design Marketing Sales http://blogs.aquent.com/aquentblog/2006/11/like_yesterday.html Seems like it was only yesterday I was listening to Tom Davenport describing Marketing Analytics on an Aquent/AMA Webinar. But it wasn't yesterday, it was last week. I've simply got to get a 2006 calendar. And now tomorrow Aquent's... Wed, 08 Nov 2006 17:51:24 EST tag:blogs.aquent.com,2006:/butlessaboutme//7.942 Tim Donnelly Career Design Marketing Recruiting Sales Training http://blogs.aquent.com/aquentblog/2006/10/the_staff_of_li.html Ah, Staff Meetings: fun, games, exercises, food, and (yes) numbers. You can't escape the numbers, but you can try to make it a little more fun, right? And not forced fun (right, Susie?) Since we're in Q4, this quarter's Staff... Thu, 12 Oct 2006 21:04:31 EST tag:blogs.aquent.com,2006:/butlessaboutme//7.909 Tim Donnelly Career Recruiting Sales Training http://blogs.aquent.com/aquentblog/2006/10/its_really_not.html Question: If a blog comment falls in the woods and no one's around to respond to it, does it matter? If you ask any blogger, whether they blog for themselves or for a company, what's the hardest part of posting... Mon, 02 Oct 2006 20:12:24 EST tag:blogs.aquent.com,2006:/butlessaboutme//7.897 Tim Donnelly Marketing Sales Weblogs http://blogs.aquent.com/aquentblog/2006/07/not_for_the_wis.html It's weird, sometimes you go into a store and you get surprised by the things they sell. Case in point, the car wash on Santa Monica Blvd. that I pass every day. While getting my car washed and checking out... Tue, 18 Jul 2006 20:41:44 EST tag:blogs.aquent.com,2006:/butlessaboutme//7.816 Tim Donnelly Cars Games Sales http://blogs.aquent.com/aquentblog/2006/03/your_worst_foot.html Thu, 23 Mar 2006 14:43:25 EST tag:blogs.aquent.com,2006:/butlessaboutme//7.701 Tim Donnelly Marketing Sales