BTW, why are the most viewed posts on the pm blog some of the least interesting? “One Happy Meal Hold the Contempt Finding” and “Client Relations Desert” were both posted quickly and tongue-in cheek: and have gotten the most traffic over the years. It’s hard to believe ...

New business pitches can be just like dating. Sometimes, it's love at first sight and other times, its hell on earth. But, as Marketing Consultant Robb High correctly points out, a romance is more likely to flower if you avoid some obvious mistakes. We've committed some of these gaffes, and many oth...

Those legendary 'unnamed sources' that journalists love to quote say WPP may name its specially created, Dell-exclusive agency Synarchy. Anarchy is more like it. The agency, code named DaVinci, won all of Dell's estimated $100 million in annual revenue last December. At the time. WPP CEO Martin Sorr...

There's been several reports over the last week or so that lucky iPhone users would be offered free Wi-Fi service at hotspots run by AT&T inside Starbucks and Barnes & Noble. A few days later, the free access was cut off . Then yesterday, AT&T’s own Web site said that its iPhone data plans inclu...

One of the message boards on the Facebook group, I'm in Advertising...Hell Yeah!, is called Dumb Client Comments. Here are just a few of the submissions: "I get it, but nobody else will." "I don't know what I want, but......

Why does the most absurd shit always happen when you think you've nailed an assignment? In this case we were hired to create a direct marketing campaign for a fairly large company with a history of running perfectly ordinary work.......

I'm sure these stories are a dime a dozen. And, I won't go so far as to suggest that other stores don't do the same thing, but damn, does Apple do things right. About 18 days ago, I bought an iPhone (capitalizing that correctly is a real pain). It was pretty nice and I've been happy with it. Fast-fo...

The marketing geniuses at Woolworths (now a UK company with no stores in the US) must have skipped their English Literature class en masse while growing up. How else to explain their total ignorance of the blockbuster book and movies, 'Lolita'? Woolworths just had to recall an entire line of girls' ...