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Okay, real talk, blogging often is hard shit. We care so much about you and your time. We don’t write posts for the sake of writing posts. If we have a passionate topic, you’ll see it here. Otherwise trust we are probably just busy making something great for the citizens of the interwebs.

Great advertising

So I really love finding great advertising. Ads that are unique, clever, and witty are always catching my attention. Here are a few of my recent finds. What I really enjoy, is that these ads make you stop, and look. What great ads have you found recently?

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Why punish your best customers?

So this week I have read about wireless data restrictions from both T-mobile and AT&T. If your total data usage in any billing cycle is more than 1GB, your data throughput for the remainder of that cycle may be reduced to 50 kbps or less. So the 2 carriers that offer awesome phones (AT&T with…

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Creatives and their resumes

So often we are bombarded with run of the mill resumes. Generic, accountant style. Seth godinonce asked, why even bother having a resume. I often think that non creatives, like accountants, and HR stiffs need a typical resume. And I still expect a resume of sorts. In a recent conversation with a friend and former…

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nominate factor 1 as the business of the year

We work very hard in our local community with both non profits, for profits, and even a lot of work for our chamber. The Chamber of Commerce is holding the annual awards banquet, and we think we deserve to be on the ballot. If you honestly think we meet the criteria, will you nominate us?…

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redundancy

so i really dislike redundancy. I avoid it at all costs. I am pretty sure my genius common sense could save companies thousands of dollars on postage and print production. I often find myself getting solicitations from vendors we use. These solicitations are often very redundant. Some examples: From my Bank Yesterday I received a…

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the BIGGER, Badder, faster Web — keep up!

http://business.motorola.com/experiencelte/home.html   It appears we really don’t need our desktops, but most of us with laptops knew that already. My wife and I are currently getting caught up on “LOST” by watching back episodes from our wi-fi at home while snuggling in bed… turns out we will be able to do this and many more things in…

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viral marketing in politics – what are you doing?

The links below provide an excellent example of creative, viral marketing at work in politics (disclaimer = we don’t know that candidate or his views; we are not endorsing him just the methodology). After you check out the links below, do some brainstorming with your business or organization:  What is a simple, interactive tool that…

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IE6 just wont die

I know I have rambled on about Internet Explorer 6 still being used by some 20% of the population, even though it was replaced 2 years ago by IE 7. So I wont spiral into that post again. I do have to share this. In a post by CSS tinderbox. Raymond shares his analogy for…

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How is this not on my wall?

Seriously. this needs to be in my office. Click for full size http://www.etsy.com/view_listing.php?listing_id=14345531

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Random facts about matt

So in our past a few weeks ago asking Who Reads this, some of you were interested more about personal things. So In an effort to share more about factor 1 staff, here it goes. My name is matt, but most of you know that. I am 26 (as of august 3rd) I started factor…

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