Funky chicken
Posted: May 17, 2013 Filed under: Guy Talk, Shop Talk | Tags: Chicken Dance, Email Marketing, Funky Chicken, Jack Brown Cleaners, Marketing Leave a comment »I get a ton of emails everyday between my work and my personal email so it’s not often that I get an email that intrigues me enough to open if it’s not related to something I am actively working on or planning. Jack Brown Cleaners sent me the email below the other day and I have to say it was pretty entertaining to read. It had everything…a disco ball, a chicken, a patriotic appeal and a nostalgia because everyone has done the chicken dance before. Enjoy!
A snow day in May
Posted: May 7, 2013 Filed under: Guy Talk, Shop Talk | Tags: Denver, snow, Work Travel Leave a comment »I’ve been traveling some for work recently and was in Denver last week and if you can believe it, there was snow in May! I have to admit that it was pretty fun to see snow since I am from Texas and all and don’t typically get to see snow that often. It was a little weird to see it in May though in such force.
Easter email marketing
Posted: April 1, 2013 Filed under: Girl Talk, Shop Talk | Tags: Easter, Email, Marketing, Subject Line Leave a comment »The nerd inside of me always gets a little excited for major holidays because I get to see what creative (and not so creative) email marketing tactics brands use to try and get me to buy something from them. Below are a few of the many that hit my inbox yesterday morning for Easter. I have to say, HauteLook’s made me chuckle a little bit with their “clever” use of capitalization. Jo-Ann’s was un-inspiring but they did have an animated bunny in the body of their email so that made up for it in its own way.
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- JackThreads
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- Jo-Ann
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- MyHabit
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- Cole Haan
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- HauteLook
Hourly exercise breaks at work
Posted: March 19, 2013 Filed under: Guy Talk, Shop Talk | Tags: Fast Company, Hourly Fitness, Workplace Fitness Leave a comment »This company might be on to something! Overit Media was featured recently in a Fast Company article about their recent implementation of hourly exercise breaks, which initially started off as a joke but have turned into an official program that employees can opt-in to. I think it’s a great idea and could be the next trend in the work place now that standing desks have already taken over. I think I would be a fan of the noon “Walk it out” session.
SXSW invades Austin
Posted: March 8, 2013 Filed under: Guy Talk, Shop Talk | Tags: Austin, Bingle, Social, SXSW, SXSWi Leave a comment »I’m not sure when it happened, but SXSW Interactive has become a huge deal in Austin for brands, agencies, start-ups and everyone else in between. Its popularity has grown to the scale of an estimated 80,000 badge holders (according to the nice individual who helped me check in at registration) which is insane to me! That is a lot of people.
Two of my favorite things about SXSW are the people watching and the social media conversations that pop up which is why I’m a fan of Mashable’s SXSW Trendspotter that they have created through a partnership with Topsy. Case in point is that during a session today on “How to Rank Better in Google and Bing” the hashtag #Bingle popped up and was a top trending hashtag during day one of SXSW Interactive which I found highly entertaining and amusing.
A good use for a dry-erase board
Posted: February 19, 2013 Filed under: Guy Talk, Shop Talk | Tags: Dry Erase Board, Marker, note, work Leave a comment »Sometimes you just have to use your glass window that doubles as a dry-erase board to write a message to send to your girl.
An office with a duck pond view
Posted: February 18, 2013 Filed under: Guy Talk, Shop Talk Leave a comment »One of the new perks of our new office at Mason Zimbler is the sweet duck pond that you can walk to whenever you need to stretch your legs and take a nice stroll outside. Be on the look out for those two geese in the back, word on the street is that they’ll bully you for your lunch money.
Personalized coffee pods
Posted: January 26, 2013 Filed under: Guy Talk, Shop Talk, Wedding Talk | Tags: coffee, Invention, New Idea, Pikes Place, Starbucks Leave a comment »I love coffee and I have been lucky enough to have been able to introduce the girl to the joy of coffee and now we drink it together every morning (which is always one of the best parts of my day). While at work the other day, I was making some coffee and I was making some Starbuck’s Pikes Place coffee and it reminded me of the girl and our wedding planning efforts because we’re planning on getting married in her hometown which is some-what nearby and I got to thinking…it would be super cool if you could make your own personal “brand” of coffee and get custom coffee pods that you crafted your own flavor and taste to.
Is this something that is already done? If not, I claim the rights to this idea right now.
Doughnuts for breakfast meetings at work
Posted: January 25, 2013 Filed under: Guy Talk, Shop Talk | Tags: Breakfast Meeting, doughnut, Tasty Treat Leave a comment »The girl made these super bomb baked expresso glazed doughnuts this week and they were delicious. She was super nice and made extra ones for me to take to work and let me tell you, they were a hit! I had some early 8 a.m. meetings and they were gone within the hour. I think that the people at work found them to be a pleasant surprise and made an early morning meeting just a little bit sweeter. And to top it all off, they fit perfectly in the container like it was meant to be.
My year on Twitter in 2012
Posted: December 17, 2012 Filed under: Guy Talk, Shop Talk | Tags: Infographic, twitter, Vizify Leave a comment »For those of you that are active on Twitter you should really check out Vizify. It’s a sweet site that came out a little while ago that lets you see what you tweeted about in 2012 in a visual infographic of sorts. It’s pretty interesting to see what were the most popular things that you tweeted over the last year. For me, my top three keywords were marketing, team and #HookEm. Check out my full year on Twitter here.
