I logged on to my AOL account yesterday and was greeted by a Kohl’s ad for Black Friday. Seems the store is opening at 4:00 a.m.
I don’t know who I feel sorrier for: the people who are out shopping at 4:00 in the morning or the people who have to work in the stores and deal with the people who are out shopping at 4:00 in the morning.
Is Disney starting to get the hang of the Internet? One would hope so, after years of burning through hundreds of millions of dollars. And one might think so after reading this article out of the U.K.
Of course, even in a Disney-fied virtual world, kids will be kids. “Swearing is electronically banned on Disney’s messaging systems but some users have found creative ways round it.” Hence the headline of this blog post.
That’s number one out of “100 Ways to Kill A Concept,” an interesting manifesto about how to sell your idea. It’s over on Change This, which is worth checking out from time to time.
Given the choice and asked at the right time, many professionals might consider waterboarding preferable to yet another PowerPoint presentation.
This presentation by presentation consultant Alexei Kapterev and brought to us by Lifehacker, conservatively estimates that half of all PowerPoint presentations are unbearable. The number would be much less if all of us who had to create PowerPoint would pay attention to this presentation. And while we’re at it, let’s go back and review Seth Godin’s two cents on PowerPoint, too.
Takeaway for marketers: Presenting? Keep. It. Simple.
“I will tell you, that you Christians have created a holiday that has become a beast that cannot be fed. Every year, Christmas gets longer and longer and longer, and you don’t care, do you? You just take more and more of the calendar for yourself. It’s unbelievable. How long does it take you people to shop?! It’s beyond belief. It’s insane.”
—Lewis Black
