Archive for the ‘Don't Do This’ Category

Attack of the 50 Foot Corporate Anthem!

Sunday, December 14th, 2008

They're baaaaaaaaaack. In this month's edition of The Attack of the 50 Ft. Corporate Anthem we get a look at Honeywell, an even more countryfied version of the DRUPA theme song, and some very strange off off off Broadway musical rendition about Glaucoma. You can blame my wife for this batch ...

Epic Fail == Me

Monday, July 14th, 2008

Yes, I can admit when I make a mistake. In some cases even pretty earth shatteringly large mistakes. This time I pulled the trigger without doing enough due diligence and research, something I constantly tell people to do before they jump in to the deep end. So, what did I fail ...

More Corporate Anthems

Thursday, May 1st, 2008

I love them, God help me I do love them so. I've come across a few more Corporate Anthems that I just had to add to my collection. The latest additions include the theme song for the Drupa International Printing and Paper Fair another great tune for the fine folks at ...

Forum spam gets organized

Friday, April 11th, 2008

Spammers are a crafty bunch, a crafty bunch that may need to be crushed under heel at some point, but crafty non-the-less. It all started with a simple need. Getting links. At first it was about getting friends to link to you, or joining a webring. Then it was trading links ...

Jingles and Anthems - the end of a marketing mainstay?

Sunday, March 30th, 2008

Corporate Anthems are a guilty little pleasure of mine. Some of them are a tribute to an age of business and marketing that has long since passed, while others are simply a tribute to the egos of the people behind them. In either case there is something about them makes me ...

Internet business is still business

Friday, March 21st, 2008

I've said it over and over, and you've read it or heard it over and over, but it bears repeating again. Your internet business is still a business and it needs to be run like one. This really starts hitting home as the economy starts to become tight and there is ...

Modern ideas, ancient execution

Sunday, February 17th, 2008

While doing some research tonight and digging deep in to the SERPs I stumbled across this site. InternetRadioMarketing.Com. IRM's website is pure graphic. Not one single word of text on the page anywhere to be found. It boggles the mind that there are still websites. It doesn't get any better on ...