Archive for April, 2009

Does Your Magazine Know When You Like to Have Sex?

Posted by Brett Greene | Filed under Advertising, Consumerism, Influence, Marketing, Media, Psychology | Apr 28, 2009 | Tags: consumer, consumer behavior, magazine ads, magazine advertisements, magazines, sex, sex in advertising, sex in marketing, sex sells, sexy time, subliminal advertising, watch ads, watch advertisements, watches | 6 Comments

Sexy time. It’s not always at the same habitual time like breakfast or teeth brushing time, right? Or is it? Researchers at the University of Texas did a study in 2007 with 2,000 participants that revealed 237 reasons why people have sex. (Really, they couldn’t stretch it to 250 to get a good round number?) ...Read more.

How Leaving Blog Comments Builds Your Influence

Posted by Brett Greene | Filed under Influence, Social Media | Apr 28, 2009 | Tags: blog, blog comment, blog post, blogger, bloggers, brett borders, comment, seo, social media rockstar, tag, targeted traffic, traffic, twitter, website traffic | 2 Comments

Social Media Rockstar is a blog I get some great information from and it’s author, Brett Borders frequently comments on my posts here. He included me in his latest posts because I admitted to not following my own advice to comment on high profile blogs daily. Also note that I’m linking to his blog and ...Read more.

Are Ashton and Oprah Killing Twitter?

Posted by Brett Greene | Filed under Consumerism, Influence, Social Media, Spin | Apr 21, 2009 | Tags: aplusk, ashton, ashton kutcher, oprah, twitter, twitter followers | 2 Comments

Obviously they can’t kill Twitter, but what about the Twitter spirit? Over the last 4 months or so Twitter has begun to look more and more like high school. Everyone’s trying to be one of the cool kids rather than sharing their own greatness. How do you become cool on Twitter? The perception is that ...Read more.

Entrepreneurial Attitudes Vs. Status Quo Complaints

Posted by Brett Greene | Filed under Beliefs, Psychology | Apr 15, 2009 | Tags: attitude, boulder, entrepreneur, university of colorado | 1 Comment

Last night I attended the Entrepreneurial Mashup hosted by Silicon Flatirons. It was an event honoring the biggest entrepreneurs in Boulder. It’s quite amazing to be in a room with 150 fun, successful, optimistic dreamers committed to building a better future. As you’d imagine, it’s the opposite feeling of hanging out with people who follow ...Read more.

How ‘Natural’ Brands Get Manufactured After Corporations Buy the Brand

Posted by Brett Greene | Filed under Advertising, Consumerism, Influence, Marketing | Apr 13, 2009 | Tags: burt's bees, clorox, deception, mercola, natural, natural foods, natural products, target, tom's of maine, wal-mart | 1 Comment

What happens when a popular ‘natural’ product company is bought out by a larger company? Sometimes business as usual, but often times not. Because larger companies have larger overheads and less efficient distribution systems they dilute the quality of the product. Maybe it’s leaving out ingredients that made the product popular or maybe it’s adding ...Read more.