This week’s Marketing Over Coffee (the best marketing podcast) is up for your listening pleasure. Some interesting talk about Free, Branding, and making an ass out of yourself at corporate events. Popularity: 1% [?]

Check out some of the photos from San Francisco and there’s finally a new M show out after a week off. Popularity: 1% [?]

While talking about trade shows last week Johnny T. writes in: Hey John - As an events producer, I’m always curious WHY companies exhibit and sponsor. What are you trying to get out of SDWest? How do you define success – is that more of an art or science for your company? Maybe that’s a 2-part question – is success for John Wall separate for success for your...

I rented a minivan for the trade show. Lame, I know, but it’s good for hauling around the trade show cases, or  carpooling with everybody else.  These keys are huge b/c they have 6 buttons on them, but here’s the kicker: they gave me two keys on a keychain that is a cable keyring that is riveted shut. I’d need some wire cutters to get them apart. So why am I carrying...

Do you work at Lucasfilm? I am in the Valley today and tomorrow heading up to San Francisco. I am scouring the rolodex to see if I can find someone to check out the Yoda Statue at Lucasfilm. Are you in the Bay Area? I’m taking it easy on Saturday for breakfast/brunch if you are around. I’ve signed up for a private walking tour at 10 if anyone wants to bust out a camera and tag...

As part of the normal trade show routine I buy a monitor. It’s usually around $175 to rent one vs. $250 to buy one, so the first time we do a show in a town we buy a monitor and the local rep gets to use it for the rest of the year. We even do the same thing with some 40 inch monitors where we have bigger shows. I hit the online fliers to see who’s got the best sales, this week...

I won’t have a whole lot to post for the next couple of days, I’m at the SDWest Conference is Santa Clara, CA. It’s the cutting edge of Software Development and is actually a show with an insane number of sessions and an expo floor with tons of development tools. Unfortunately, as great as the show is, if you are reading this from a marketing slant there’s not much...

So it’s the weekend. Taking a break from Marketing here’s the important stuff: I got a new TV so the complaining can stop at my house. The old one is being repaired and it’s going on 3 weeks, we couldn’t take it any more. We got a good deal at the Sony outlet and so I was able to take the upgrade to Apple TV last night and subscribing to Flickr is awesome. I had a...