A nicely presented and inspiring handbook helping people to understand and design modern business models. With over 400 contributers, good things have been said about it already:
“it manages to capture the complete set of the most essential elements of a business model in a simple way, express it well by means of visualizations and easy-to-understand schemes, enabling management to design a business model on one A4 page.” Ziv Baida, Senior Conultant Technology Strategy, IBM
Also check out TrendHunter’s image galleries on 2009 trends:
Red and white Santa comes to town…
You wonder how you are going to incorporate mayonnaise into the Christmas menu…
The kids get excited…
You pay attention to celebrities for gift ideas…
The girls come along…
Perfume fills the air…
Sofas get a festive soundtrack…
Even the piano seems like a good idea…
It all gets very sentimental…
There’ll be a few arguments (especially when the cousins from across the pond visit)…
… Marks and Spencer knows what it’s all about…
But hang on a minute there are other ways to spend that cash other than on tat, be a wise man this Christmas…
A short introduction to data in the world of marketing using the Pecha Kucha presentation format.
Rory Sutherland discusses the importance of intangible value in our view of the world via TED.
Get some proof by calculating and showing some figures for your work by downloading and using:
- Harvard Business School’s Lifetime Value Calculator [xls]
- docstoc’s Marketing Calculator templates [xls]
- JaxWorks Template Library featuring many marketing and business templates for [WIN & OSX]
Or for a quick overview see these online number crunchers:
- Marketing Today’s ROI Calculator
- Database Marketing’s Confidence Calculators
With less than 6 weeks to go until the end of the year with much to sort out before and for the holiday season, here are two videos created by 72andSunny for The Discovery Channel reminding us that the world can be a beautiful place and somethings are worth it.
It’s always possible that an idea may have been had by someone else previously. Does it mean that the idea shouldn’t be brought to life again? Replication is sometimes said to be a sincere form of flattery, but pure copying without thought is plain lazy.
Classic designs and ideas that stand the test of time must have done so because….. well, they’re classic, they still manage to add something positive to society. Sometimes a little tweak is needed for the current environment to suit the latest desires, needs, trends and fashion, but isn’t it beautiful that we can learn and take inspiration from history and make it ours for our time. Now let’s go forth and get something good into the back of our trunks…
P.S. Yes this probably was a thinly disguised excuse to post some images of Bettie Page and Dita Von Tesse, don’t like it? Well then just whip me.
P.P.S. I may as well continue and post this cult classic from Agent Provocateur and Kylie Minogue. Stand up if you don’t like this!
So many analogies can be drawn from this “fairytale” result. Congratulations to the Hayemaker, bringing hope to those who believe in their strengths, those who understand the challenge, those who have a plan, and those who have the guts to stick to the plan.
Beautiful Simplicity – It’s Sesame Street’s 40th birthday, bringing “edu-tainment” to the masses, managing to keep things contemporary with great guest appearances.
So Microsoft has pulled out of sponsoring “Seth and Alex’s Almost Live Comedy Show”, the special edition of Family Guy to be aired on 8th November. The show goes on though as Seth’s commercial team endeavours to find other sponsors: who understand that jokes about deaf people, the holocaust and incest is just the usual recipe for Family Guy laughs.
Some material has been salvaged by Microsoft though, these 3 clips still appear on their win741 website.
Bonus:
Seth Macfarlane’s Cavalcade of Cartoon Comedy channel for Burger King.
Seth Macfarlane’s Cavalcade of Cartoon Comedy shorts for Priceline.
Extra Bonuses:
Maybe Microsoft just couldn’t forgive or forget about the Zune bashing or Stewie’s iPod commercial?
We’ve all heard the phrase “thinking outside the box” in many meetings, but who can really do it?
Without lifting your pen/mouse, draw 4 straight lines that connect all 9 dots.
Reveal the Answer
Too easy? Try the 16 dot and 25 dot versions at Psychology Today.
Bonus: Web Economy Bullshit Generator (dack)
Sometimes you just need to say what you need to say, like the Stonewall campaign. Such was the success of this campaign, the billboard re-ran not once but twice.
Don’t be a mug. Want attention? Don’t curb your enthusiasm. Hire Intelligence an Australian company clearly know when to exploit an opportunity and not get caught - unlike Mr Hugh Grant. Make the most of the situation and have fun with it, like the cheeky copy: Don’t get caught with the wrong rental. Equipment rentals that will blow you away.
- Bonus (from five blogs before lunch): Lindsay Lohan’s US Drink Drive Advert
As the final luxuriously packaged pack of Dunhill “Journey of taste: Mix No.16 (Art Nouveau)” is smoked away, it sparks the thought that even in an age when digital advertising and communications is surpassing it’s traditional cousin – there’ll always be a place for the more mature and refined member of the family.
There’s something about the sense of touch that can create so much feeling: luxury, security, comfort, danger, etc… So as websites get flashier and as virtual and augmented worlds merge into reality, consider what a touch, a stroke, a feeling can create within the backdrop of our digital world.
From Marketing Magazine UK:
Full list available from Brand Republic/Marketing Magazine
Well done eCircle for continuing to pump out the emails (in a rather more intelligent manner than some) and also AKQA: the digital agency that others want to be, with desirable clients and briefs to unleash creative thought and action.
Put into practise by fisherman in China, this ingenious idea using Cormorant birds to fish shows an appreciation for natural instinct – appreciated and not fought against. Even though our environment may change and evolve, instincts still remain and underlie our very being.
Visit the Natural History Museum for the Veolia Environment Wildlife Photography of the Year exhibition to see more creatures in their environment for more inspiration, empathy, and understanding.
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