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INT. DINING ROOM – MORNING: HANK PAULSON and his teenage daughter PRINCESS are having breakfast. We can’t see his face because he’s reading the Financial Times, chuckling to himself. She’s toying around with her half-eaten Froot Loops in a fine china bowl… (more…)
Categories: Random Observations
Tagged: business, business plans, economics, finance, Henry Paulson, humor, investing, satire, spoof, Wall Street Bailout
Warning: adolescent humor ahead…
‘Cause sometimes, you just gotta vent with silliness.
Categories: Uncategorized
Tagged: Dane Boedigheimer, Daneboe, Election, Gagfilms, humor, Joe The Plumber, McCain, satire, viral video
Not quite sure how this sells insurance, but it’s good for a laugh…
Thanks to Doug Cone for passing this along!
Categories: Random Observations
Tagged: advertising, commercial, humor, viral video
Skirting the issues, as usual...
You can picture it now: VPILFs gone wild everywhere… So wear protection, guys — and I mean body armor — particularly if you’re dressed like a wolf. (more…)
Categories: Random Observations
Tagged: Halloween, humor, politics, Sarah Palin
So I’m walking through my neighborhood counting the foreclosure signs when I develop this mighty thirst. Fortunately, I find a lemonade stand run by an enterprising six-year-old named Zucky. Just as I’m about to pay $4 for a cup (obviously, Zucky graduated from the Starbucks Preschool of Management), I see another lemonade stand across the street run by another enterprising six-year-old. This one, however, has a sign saying “Free Lemonade.” Free? I like free. Free is good. Plus, I’m trying to save enough money to fuel up my car. So I cross the street to the land of the free, and find myself talking to Zucky’s arch rival, Sergei… (more…)
Categories: Random Observations
Tagged: business, dot-com, dotcoms, humor, new media, satire, Silicon Valley, social media, social networking, UGC, user generated content, VC, Web 2.0
It’s amazing the difference between what you learn in school and actual business practices. I once took a class in public relations where we learned how to write a press release. The basic rule: write an actual news story about your company using standard journalistic practices to make it as objective as possible. That way, the news editor can make a few adjustments and print it as is.
Then I ventured into the real business world and discovered that everyone ignored that rule…
Categories: How To Tips
Tagged: business, how to, humor, marketing, media, PR, press release, public relations, publicity, satire, TechCrunch
"Common sense is the little man in a gray suit who never makes a mistake at addition, but it's always someone else's money he's adding up."
- Raymond ChandlerLet's hear it for uncommon sense: that inner itch that inspires you to stray from the herd, ditch the training wheels and leap into the fast lane. As we all know, it's the risk takers who get their faces on the cover of Wired magazine and their words on National Public Radio. No one ever remembers who won "honorable mention"...
Cool Rules Pronto celebrates uncommon sense in marketing and media. It's written by Freddy J. Nager, the Founder & Fusion Director of the L.A.-based marketing agency and production company Atomic Tango. For Cool Rules Pronto, he draws on two decades of experience in advertising and entertainment, including 15 years in new media. He has created campaigns and projects for agencies Saatchi & Saatchi and Magnet Interactive, and for such clients as Toyota, MCA Records, National Lampoon, Nissan & Infiniti, Royal Caribbean Cruise Lines, the NFL on Fox and numerous startups.
Freddy also serves on the Board of Directors of City Garage Theatre in Santa Monica, California. He holds a BA from Harvard University and an MBA from USC (go Trojans!), and currently teaches marketing through Antioch University L.A. and the University of Wales/Robert Kennedy College. He also wrote the satirical book, Claw Your Way To The Top: Ten Things I Learned About Business From My Cat, which he'll get around to marketing someday.
