Articles in the Marketing Category

iPhone Angry Birds Lego
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Posted in iPhone, Marketing on 19 January 2011
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Not official but hilarious … A whole slew of nicely done and hilarious pics on “Tsang Yiu Keung” FaceBook page. (You probably need a FaceBook account to view). Also ADULTS ONLY (LANGUAGE! LANGUAGE NSFW) can check out the Angry Birds ‘Peace Treaty’ video … much like any day at the UN only with funnier costumes [...]

Free Christmas-Holiday Tunes From Target & Amazon …
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Posted in Marketing, Retail on 20 December 2010
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If you enjoy the interesting holiday tunes from the current Target holiday ads, you can listen or download them for free … Click on the graphic or this TEXT LINK. Then either DOWNLOAD ALL or you ca scroll down and download (or listen) to individual tracks. Sorry no new CARS items online but you can [...]

The Pressurized Coffee Machine Roundup & Review
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Posted in Food, Marketing on 1 December 2010
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Since it’s bitter cold here in NorthCal now – 50 degrees though still sunny so it’s time to drink some serious amounts of hot beverage … and since they have banned the 18-cups of caffeine+8 shots of alcohol energy drinks, it’s back to coffee. Now if you prefer just a regular cup of coffee, maybe [...]

San Diego Comic Con Tickets: On SALE TODAY at 9 AM PST (Noon – Eastern Time)
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Posted in Marketing, Toys on 1 November 2010
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Yea, once upon a time (2007), you could leisurely buy some San Diego Comic Con tickets around June to go to the event in July but NOT ANYMORE. 4-Day and individual Day tickets go on sale at 9 AM Pacific time … (click on the text link or the graphic link above). Last year, it [...]

Target & Walmart: Retail News
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Posted in Marketing, Mattel Disney Pixar CARS, Retail on 24 June 2010
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Good news if you know how to do math AND pay off your bills monthly … Target is planning on offering you a 5% discount on your purchase if you use your Target credit card. That’s the good math. The bad math – it’s pointless if you do not pay it off by the end [...]

Disney Pixar CARS: CARS, CARS, CARS, CARS & More CARS
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Posted in Marketing, Mattel Disney Pixar CARS on 4 June 2010
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In case you had any doubt, CARS, CARS, CARS, CARS and more CARS licensed products. Next week is the big INTERNATIONAL LICENSING EXPO where companies with brand names try and convince others to license it to sell on products they might not directly make or sell … like these … So, no surprise, Disney made [...]

Mattel Disney Pixar Diecast CARS: Kmart Would Like to Know (Survey + Contest!) – UPDATED – Comments Fixed
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Posted in Advertising, CARS, check list, Checklist, collecting, Contests, diecast, Disney Pixar, Marketing, Mattel, Mattel Disney Pixar CARS, Retail, Toys on 28 May 2010
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The good folks at Kmart are looking for some honest feedback about what you, our dear readers, as collectors of Mattel Disney Pixar Cars think about a few different aspects of this fun pastime. The extra good news:  Each person who completes the survey will earn one (1) additional entry into the case giveaway contest! [...]

Darth Vader Your Tom Tom
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Posted in Film, Marketing on 19 May 2010
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Now, the Dark Side of the Force can command your in-car GPS navigation … I would pay $13 to hear James Earl Jones to command me to turn right at the intersection of Alderaan and Tatooine – perhaps telling me to slow down because “I want them alive!” Wouldn’t listening to C-3PO for hours on [...]

Gallery of 1970′s Toys …
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Posted in Marketing, Retail, Toys on 28 April 2010
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There is a fun galley of a more innocent time – toys of the 1970′s … some familiar, some not so much … $1.88 for an action figure? That’s crazy! And I should put these in a temperature controlled storage, it’ll be worth $13,000? Hey, mister, are you that guy on TV who invented crack [...]

Disney Pixar CARS: It’s Pixar Video Day!
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Posted in Film, Marketing, Toys on 26 April 2010
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Pixar Animation opens Canadian Studio! There is also a Part II and the original announcement video – see right hand sidebar. Thanks “Nikko” for the heads up. AND, hey – speaking of Pixar – here’s a fun ‘fake’ commercial of Lotso Bear (from Toy Story 3) made to look like it’s from the 1980′s recorded [...]