At the risk of throwing our shoulder out from excessively patting ourselves on the back, we feel a little self-congrats is in order: The Upstate Indiana Business Journal named LaBov and Beyond the Best Place to Work in the small-business category as part of its annual workplace-excellence awards. But wait – there’s more!
We also took [...]

The Wired editor, as you may recall, penned last year’s turn-conventional-wisdom-on-its-head tome du jour, The Long Tail. In it, he made the convincing case consumer demand is, and will be, defined by very small pockets of niche-based interests and wants. No more mass-marketing or carpetbomb campaigns; instead, everything is tailored down to an almost individual level to [...]

We’d have to guess failing the “epilepsy test” ranks near the top. Ouch, babe. Two things come to mind for us reading this:
1) How is the epilepsy test administered, exactly?
2) We really, really want to play this game now.
Unfortunately,  the millions of kids this game is intended for won’t be able to play this game [...]

While the National Geographic tells us that “Texas and Mexico brace for Dolly,” the rest of the nation, sadly, braces for thousands of bad “Hello, Dolly” puns, courtesy headline writers and TV newscasters from coast to coast. It could get ugly, folks. Prepare for the worst.
Ooops! Too late – it’s already made landfall.
Sigh.

This isn’t really advertising- or marketing-related in any way, but it’s very cool and adorable nonetheless. Thusly, we share with you:
Feist on Sesame Street.
Our only question: Where’s the Count? This would seem to be right up his alley.
Enjoy.

Today’s award comes courtesy a firm calling itself Mobile Edge, which designs and manufactures TSA-compliant laptop bags and briefcases. The bags are designed to facilitate faster trips through TSA security lines at airports; as frequent business travelers ourselves, we can honestly say anything that helps to make our trips through TSA lines more efficient are [...]