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Tweet As strong as the internet can be, nothing beats the marketing power of television advertisement. A good ad campaigne can instantly become water cooler talk and part of a viral web searche. Sometimes the commercials can be more entertaining than the shows themselves. I have compiled a list of my personal top ten favorite television commercials and ad campaigns. 10. M&M’s Pretzel 9. Geico: Mistaken Identity 8. Nike Basketbll: Lebron Rise 7. Logitech Revue [...]

Tweet Most of you that know me know that I am a brand fanatic. I love studying, analyzing and discussing what makes a brand strong or weak. What I have found out is that branding is not limited to tangble products or obvious services a company delivers. People have a personal brand and that personal brand spills over into their overall corporate brand. There is an occurrence in a celebrities career where his or her [...]

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Freelance Freedom #39 by N.C. Winters featured on freelanceswitch.com and on ncwinters.com.

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Tweet State Farm features a series of commercials where after an accident the characters sing the State Farm jingle and an insurance agent shows up. While the State Farm agent analyzes the damage the characters have a little fun with the power and add their own individual request. In the one featured below the characters use the power to change their partners into their ideal boyfriend and ideal girlfriend. I have noticed that insurance companies [...]

Tweet I’ve been following and in awe over  Gerrel Saunders (Gaks Designs) artwork for some time now so it was only fitting to feature him so that my readers could enjoy them as well. In most cases I see artist follow a particular style but as you will see Mr. Saunders artwork flows outside of any box. He can deliver illustrations that will entertain the left and right side of your brain. Dogg Blogg: When [...]

Freelance Freedom #38 by N.C. Winters featured on freelanceswitch.com and on ncwinters.com.

Tweet Everest College is a system of for-profit colleges in the United States and the Canadian province of Ontario. The schools are owned and operated by Corinthian Colleges, Inc. which also owns Everest University, Everest Institute, Heald College, and Wyotech. I have been seeing these commercial for quite some time now. What I though made Everest commercials unique was that vast difference between its two methods of marketing. In one  series of commercials, former students [...]