Silverdome sells for $583K
FILE - In this Nov. 2, 2005, file photo, the Silverdome is seen in Pontiac, Mich. A judge has cleared the way for the city to sell the stadium that was once home to the NFL’s Detroit Lions to a Canadian company for $583,000. The Lions abandoned the 80,300-seat Silverdome in 2002, when they moved to Detroit’s Ford Field. Pontiac has been spending $1.5 million a year to maintain the largely unused stadium. (AP Photo/Paul Sancya, File) |
See Clay Parker I told you I knew what i was talking about.
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Tivo and Google make data agreement, commercials no longer dead media
Tivo joined Google to share analytical data with advertiser through the Google TV ads program. Tivo says they have Second by second viewing info on who’s changing channels and when, who fast forwards through commercials and other key user information. The goal with all advertising is to align advertisers with viewers who would have a natural inclination to be interested in a product and this sounds like it will. “Media choices that don’t have good measurement will suffer at the expense of those who do,” said Todd Juenger, VP-g.m. of TiVo audience and research measurement. “We get this great data and find it extremely valuable. Among the TV outlets that are selling ad time through the Google TV Ads platform are a handful of NBC Universal-owned cablers, including MSNBC, CNBC, Syfy and Oxygen.
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Old Yeller Dog Food - good enough for the dog you got to shoot
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Q100’s Bert Show goes on campaign against the phrase ‘Hotlanta’ | Radio & TV Talk
Q100’s Bert Show goes on campaign against the phrase ‘Hotlanta’
8:38 am November 18, 2009, by Rodney Ho
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I have noticed it over the years that people who don’t live in Atlanta will often refer to our lovely city as “Hotlanta,” thinking they were cool. In fact, they always act as if they’re “in the know” by saying it. Truth is: we never say it. Ever. Except to make fun of folks who say “Hotlanta.”
Earlier this month, I heard actress, D.C. native and cohost Taraji Henson (left, with Terrence Howard) say it at the Soul Train Awards, airing Nov. 29 on BET and Centric. I mocked her in my blog.
Anyway, Q100’s Bert Show has decided to take this important issue head on. They are asking their listeners and celebrities to tell outsiders not to say that term on penalty of eye rolls and sighs.
The morning show already told part-time Atlantan Janet Jackson to spread the word and she agreed to pass it on to Jermaine Dupri. Jeff Dauler saw Jordan Knight (New Kids on the Block) referencing the city that way in a Tweet and plans to straighten him out Friday when he comes in studio. They hope to get former Atlantan John Mayer to tell his huge Twitter following (2.6 million) to back off.
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Atlantis Space Shuttle Launch will be Twittered Live
NASA is getting even more social media savvy: the organization is sending 100 of its Twitter followers to Cape Canaveral for tomorrow’s launch of Atlantis; NASA awarded tickets to the Tweetup to the first 100 people to register on its site. The move is an attempt to drive more interest in space exploration.
It’s not the first time NASA (@nasa on Twitter (
)) has leveraged the social media messaging service. The organization technically posted the first Tweets from space this May, when user @Astro_Mike sent messages to the ground to be posted to his Twitter account by NASA staff. The addition of Jeff Williams (@Astro_jeff) and Nicole Stott (@Astro_Nicole) expanded NASA’s team of tweeting astronauts.
The launch, scheduled for 2.28pm EST, is taking astronauts to the International Space Station for an 11-day mission.
[via Space.com]
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Pool Hall Main Event 11/21/09 Lube Wrestling and Hey it doesn't Smell
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Fox and Friends does it again
Does anyone see any thing wrong with this?
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Facebook Grows Twitter Flat Lines or does it?
If this graphic is true what does this say about other micro Blogging Platforms like Jaiku.com or Plurk.com?Is micro blogging something less than mainstream? Will this change when the Bing and Google deal gets going? Do these number reflect the app usage like twitpic or
www.tweetfriends.com Should we take all the apps and there traffic and add it to twitters traffic? What about pass through tweets, people who tweet and autopost to other sites were there people are. Should the tweets that people read on my blog count as twitter traffic?
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Avoid the Niche Market and Fail
Dont know were I found this but its good Stuff
This isn’t rocket science, but it does represent a kind of discipline. And it is here that management shows itself most lacking. Most leaders, when it comes down to making marketing choices, will continue to shy away from making niche commitments, regardless. Like marriage-aversebachelors, they may nod in all the right places and say allthe right things, but they will not show up when the wedding bells chime. Why not?
First, let us understand that this is a failure of will, not of understanding. This is, it is not that these leaders need to learn about niche marketing. MBA marketing curricula of the past 25 years have been adamant about the need to segment markets and the advantages gained thereby. No one, therefore, can or does plead ignorance. Instead, the claim is made that, although niche strategy is generally best, we do not have time—or we cannot afford—to implement it now.
This is a ruse, of course, the true answer being much simpler:
We do not have, nor are we willing to adopt, any discipline that would ever require us to stop pursuing any sale at any time for any reason.
We are, in other words, not a market-driven company; we are a sales-driven company.
Now, how bad can this really be? I mean, sales are good, right? Surely things can just work themselves out, and we will discover our market, albeit retroactively, let to it by our customers, yes? The true answers to the previous three questions are: (1) disastrous, (2) not always, and (3) never in a million years.
The consequences of being sales-driven during the chasm period are, to put it simply, fatal. Here’s why: The sole goal of the company during this stage of marketing development must be to secure a beachhead in a mainstream market—that is, to create a pragmatist customer base, we must ensure that our first set of customers completely satisfy their buying objectives. To do that, we must ensure that the customer gets not just the product, but… the whole product, the complete set of products and services needed to achieve the desired result… Whole product commitments, however, are expensive… Therefore must be made not only sparingly but strategically… This can only happen if the sales effort is focused on one or two niche markets…
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