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We helped World Bicycle Relief help hundreds of thousands of Africans

February 24th, 2009 · No Comments

Around 240,000 people will benefit from the most recent Annual Appeal from World Bicycle Relief. If you don’t know them, WBR is a smart and well-run non-profit that provides sustainable transportation to help people go farther, carry more and cut their travel time considerably.
You can see our full case study here.
A lot of hard work [...]

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Tags: Giving Back · Idea! · New creative · Personal · social networking

The Couple – a short about the new consumerism

November 10th, 2008 · No Comments

One of our favorite partners frowarded this video to our attention. It was created by Geert Desager, a Marketing Manager with Microsoft.
All too often we only know our consumers as statistics on a spreadsheet. When, in fact, the new idealism found in pace-setting companies is all about communication.
When you think about advertising and direct marketing [...]

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Tags: industry insight

Imagine how much fun your company could have with social media

October 7th, 2008 · 2 Comments

What company doesn’t want great things said about it?
Public perception might not matter to a super established brand like IBM – wait, no, they really want people to like their products and services too.
Mid-sized companies, they need it.
Same with the SMBs.
So how can you improve perception? How can you show yourself as a company [...]

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Tags: Personal · Uncategorized · industry insight · social networking

Why honest customer service is worth substantially more than advertising

May 27th, 2008 · 1 Comment

In the 90’s we fought branding as hard as we could. Try as we might, many of our marketing partners were forced to use a heavy brand presence – oversized logos and template designs filled with “Barney” (I love you, you love me) copy.
The idea du jour was that the brand far outweighed real benefits. [...]

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Tags: Found · Idea! · social networking