A convenient, no-cost, business coaching and educational program is now available for small business owners across the nation.  The Business Accelerator has been used by many small businesses to get the much-needed business training they require to grow their business, but cannot afford.
The program comes out of American Family Insurance’s Multicultural Marketing Division.  “American Family [...]

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Not growing up black but growing up overweight and with hair that frizzed into a wild puff as soon as I stepped out into the St. Louis summer humidity no matter how long I spent blow-drying and ironing it, the first thing I noticed when I saw the “Before” and “After” images in this ad [...]

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When I saw the Cricket transit ad, “Todo el Poder de Android a una Fraccion del Precio,” I knew it said “all the power of Android, at a fraction of the cost.”  But as I looked around me—on a busy corner of downtown Chicago during the after-work rush—I wondered how many others did.  And if [...]

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My son enjoyed watching this “multicultural” advertisement for the msi notebook x-series when this post first published in 2009.  Out of the blue today he asked to see it again, by name, apparently not because he suddenly took an interest in multicultural marketing, but he remembered there was something about butts (note to self for [...]

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I had three different signs I’m getting older this week.
1.  Got helped walking across the ice.  Not because someone was flirting and wanted to hold my hand, but because they really thought I was going to fall;
2. I fell asleep at 8:30 last night.  After one glass of wine;  and
3. I don’t get this ad.
Actually, [...]

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When I first saw the Duncan Hines Hip Hop Cup Cake ad last month, I first wondered why advertisers would make food geared to kids so creepy (a la the Cinnamon Toast Crunch cannibal ads); and that the icing would never work…the microwave would make it too gooey or too hot to be practical.
As Ken [...]

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(this post originally ran 5/4/10, but I always thought the re-imaged photo at the end was under-appreciated.  Hope you enjoy it)
So from this ad am I to understand that if I chew Trident Wite I’m 35% more likely to get out of a speeding ticket?
Is that only true for beautiful white women?  What if I’m [...]

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On the way to dropping my son at school this morning we heard an ad for a fast-food restaurant that was boasting “hand-mashed” guacamole.
“That’s sounds kind of gross,” I said.
“Especially if it’s mashed by dirty hands,” my son added.
“Ewww” we both shouted.
Why would the advertiser think that was a desirable trait?  It reminded me of [...]

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I found this fun parody of the new and wildly successful Old Spice spokesman, a promotional piece for the Harold B. Lee Library at Brigham Young Univisity on adfreak.com last week.  While it should have been a simple, pithy post, I’ve obsessed for seven days about whether or not to post it.
Why?  Because my immediate [...]

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Sharing tidbits of information we had gleaned from the day at dinner the other night, I announced that Japan had the highest population of people over age 65, to which my 9-year-old son Dillon countered that Utah was the state with the highest population of children, to which I made a snide remark about polygamists, [...]

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