Frank Gomez's Blog – May 2010 Archive (4)

Marketing Tip: Be Creative / Think outside of the box

Q: What is the best way to market your company?

A: Anything that works efficiently (as long as it is legal and ethical)

This example is pretty inoffensive and unintrusive compared to waiting through a "commercial" to listen to music online or having to watch ads on cable TV. (Remember when Cable TV didn't have Ads?)

Creative Labs recently gave us an awesome example. Free Food on Horizon Air! Free? Really?

Yes F-R-E-E and YES! There…

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Added by Frank Gomez on May 28, 2010 at 11:00pm — No Comments

Marketing Tips: Miscellaneous News Tidbits and my thoughts..

Headlines that shouldn't surprise you if you have been paying attention to the Marketing Tips of the Week

Surprise Surprise: McDonald's is keeping Ronald McDonald

Why do you think? He is still a strong part of their brand, AND he is working to get the attention of kids which leads to long term customers...…

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Added by Frank Gomez on May 21, 2010 at 11:30pm — No Comments

Marketing Tip of the week: Getting more referrals

Some people like to hand out referrals like candy on Halloween. Others never do it even if they love your product or service. The former give them away so much that people might not trust them. Maybe they are recommending someone or some thing that they really don't have experience with so they can stay in a leads group that encourages referrals. Real referrals are much better but how do you get more?

ASK! Yes, ask by telling them that you appreciate referrals
TELL them to…

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Added by Frank Gomez on May 14, 2010 at 9:00pm — 2 Comments

Marketing Tip: What can we learn From Lady Gaga?

A month ago I didn't even know who Lady Gaga was, what she was famous for, I know absolutely nothing. Just heard her name on the radio and I was like who? Whatever...

You might think I live in a cave but the real reason is that I choose not to watch television. We don't even get television in the house. Just Internet and phone.

Back to the point... Today I saw in an online news article that Lady Gaga is the new creative director for Polaroid so…