Hi. I'm the new logo and I work at the Gap. It seems most of you hate me.
I gotta get a new gig and NO this isn't the phone company.
Message from Marka Hansen - President - Gap North America
This past Monday, without a lot of fanfare, we introduced a new logo on our gap.com site, and I wanted to take this opportunity to explain our thinking behind this decision.
I've been president at Gap brand for the past three years, and I've been living and breathing the changes we've been making on our journey to make Gap more relevant to our customers.
You've seen this evolution through...
Please hear me, I still believe this is a capitalistic country and if you produce "it," you have every right to charge for the sweat of your labor. But it's extremely difficult when you first give it away to later start charging especially after years of giving it away under an advertising model. Look at the Wall Street Journal, they made pay online subscription a part of their model from the beginning and no one complained, if you wanted the WSJ it cost you - period.
I have a question, if I pay for content am I not entitled to receive it un-encumbered without advertising? Here are some...
About Google Wave
Google Wave is an online tool for real-time communication and collaboration. A wave can be both a conversation
and a document where people can discuss and work together using richly formatted text, photos, videos, maps, and more.
What is a wave?
A wave is equal parts conversation and document. People can communicate and work together with richly formatted text, photos, videos, maps, and more.
A wave is shared. Any participant can reply anywhere in the message, edit the content and add participants at any point in the process. Then playback lets anyone rewind the wave...
Every business has a special message that can stimulate an audience to connect with you. Here's a great example of a quirky film with some big names stars and it serves as the perfect example of the online video content possibilities for any business:
It's a simple storyline and could apply to any business or brand message providing a little clever creativity and cunning brand message delivery system. Think about it, every business I ever meet had a funny story or situation that could translate into a simple and video short that might get there (clients and client prospects) attention?
StellaPop...
I know finding time to read is getting tougher and tougher especially if your an entrepreneur or business person hustling to beat your competitors and the economy. I'll make it easy for you with a list of must reads which will bring your marketing, advertising, social media, creative initiatives and branding up to speed, thinking and on the path toward marketing success:
1. Get Content, Get Customers by Joe Pulizzi and Newt Barrett - Junta42.com
Marketing is moving online at a breakneck pace. Several research firms now forecast that the Internet will become the world’s dom- inant advertising...
I grew up traveling all over the United States and we drove that fire engine red Ford LTD with tan leather interior everywhere. I better come clean now with my dad. Dad sorry it was me who unlaced all the leather stitched rear seats.
I'm sorry, it was just to much to resist and I was tired of looking at the Wyoming country side.
Have fun with this one! I bet you can't get them all?
Signage is such a powerful branding tool and a good sign or logo lasts in your audience or clients sub-conscious forever.
Guess That Highway Sign!
From Fast Company BY WILLIAM BOSTWICK
Photographer Josef Schulz...
Apple quite possibly is about to dominate another of the online arena - content delivered directly to a device. The iPad could be another game changer for Apple by creating an iTunes like interface which customers will customized content for daily delivery.
I expect in the next two or three years a new online store from Apple, "iContent" which will be geared toward delivering content directly to consumers via the new device - iPad. Bye-Bye - no more newspapers, magazines or websites except maybe through Apples portal, site, store or cloud.
Microsoft and Google better get their stuff together,...
Twitter is the shortest and most direct connection to the what's going on in the world - a world wide guide.
When you set up your follows, you find the topics, people and ideas that interest whether it's for today or forever and your tweet-in-box gets filled with everything you 'might' want to read, watch or scan. Twitter is the new TV Guide.
It's a new World Wide Guide to everything!
Think on this from Bing Twitter - Today's World Wide Guide:
ShiNee
Avatar
Lady Gaga
Miss America
Mass Effect 2
iPhone
Check out Mashable on Twitter,
The average Twitter user doesn’t...
DC's Grammy Nominee Kokayi, Partners with Ms. DC and Goodwill of Greater Washington.
Across The Fader dot com
Published on January 8, 2010, 12:24 PM By Drea M.
Music is a no holds barred industry. Whether this power is used for good or evil is subject to respective digression, but the local music scene in Washington, DC making good - collaborating unlikely elements and stumbling upon undiscovered genres. Some might say it’s already been done, but melding Hip-Hop and opera has not yet been done successfully, until now. The qualified participants of this latest Hip-Hopera rendition,...
Stella's Pop Factory and Goodwill(R) of Greater Washington Launches Recycling and Mission Awareness Campaign with Miss District of Columbia
Campaign includes original Video Series and Rap-Opera Song conceptualized and developed by Stella Pop, features Jen Corey and Grammy Nominated Artist, Kokayi, the video series documents Miss DC 2009 shopping for Recycled Furniture in Support of Her Recycling Platform for Miss America Pageant.
Reston, VA (PRWEB) January 8, 2010 -- Goodwill(R) of Greater Washington, creators of the nationally recognized DC Goodwill Fashion...
Using Your Sixth Sense and the Census - Marketing Data
What will it Tell Marketers?
Life and work are usually a whole lot of common sense and a bit of research but the plain facts are presently staring us in the face. There is no "Average American Family "- anymore in America and our population is aging.
The average household has changed and by 2010 the most prevalent household will be a married couple with no kids. These facts are all from pre-census data, the full results will not start to trickle out until March 2011.
Advertising Age has a peak into the data racing down the tracks...
Suicide, New Gym Memberships and Victoria's Secret Annual Fashion Show - What do these three things have in common?
After the airing of the Victoria's Secret Annual Fashion Show new gym memberships sky rocket or we look in the mirror and think it's not worth it and take the proud but easy way out - suicide.
First it's the title and the title gets them to take the action that leads to a possible future permission based relationship. Second, who could blame anyone after seeing all those beautiful faces and bodies for taking the above two mentioned actions (suicide or immediately joining a gym)...
DUDE, WHERES THE CASH? Here's what scares Kutcher: "When I have a conversation with
someone and they say, 'I'm not worried about monetization yet.'
"Photographs by Jill Greenberg | Story BY: ELLEN MCGIRT
What the heck? Ashton is at Fast Company and Tiger is at the Huffington Post?
Ashton Kutcher is at Fast Company and says he intends on becoming a new media mogul and social media thought leader. Take a look at this snippet below or follow this link to the full story:
The Katalyst HQ series illuminates what Kutcher's production company wants to become: not just a home for his television...
Baked Alaska and Arthur's Walk
There once was a turkey named Arthur, now you see Arthur was a very different turkey, because he lived in Alaska. It seems that he liked the winter, not because he did not want to be someone's Thanksgiving meal, in fact he never even heard of Thanksgiving!
One day Arthur was walking to the store, when he saw a bunch of people chasing after him! He followed his gutt, and suprisingly didn't run! He held up his feathery wing and said in his calmest voice he could have, "Um.....hello, my name is Arthur, and I'm pondering why you are chasing me?!".
They all took...
Want Content Success? Don't Read This Article.
Yes, we all want our businesses to grow and a chance to savor the real joy of success. Every organization sets out in advertising, marketing and a sales programs to build in success but sadly they give up before the fruits of their labor become evident.
This is exactly where the rubber meets the road, the two year mark. I know it seems like an eternity, but if your serious about succeeding then read on or cruise on over to Junta42.com and check Joe Pulizzi's article: "Create Content that Sleeps, Creeps and Leaps," it's very thought provoking...
Stella Pop is a creative company providing expert service in marketing, branding and advertising.
A Washington DC based firm with convenient locations throughout the metropolitan DC area, our home office is located in the heart of the Reston Town Center.
Stella Pop is full-service firm with the emphasis on service. Our mission is product and service excellence, delivered in a friendly, fun, responsive and most importantly in a creative world class manner. The orientation of our resources is developing and delivering remarkable messages and products that connect, resonate and communicate...
Who doesn't love a sweet and refreshing brand message?
A message that immediately gets your attention, that's memorable and communicates in a manner that motivates people to take action and leads them to connect with your business. Stella Pop soda is our way of getting your attention and at the same time gives us the opportunity to tell a fun brand story thus illustrating our capabilities, creativity and ability to connect.
There are a few things to consider now that you know what we do:
Is your message remarkable?
Does it differentiate you from your competition?
What does it communicate?
Is...
Here at Stella Pop, we want to give you the world, the online and the marketing message world.
Our job is to take your companies message, content and make it remarkable. Sometimes it takes the form of re-contenting, re-contenting is the method of re-using the material that you have developed over months or years of business and re-contenting it to get your business found online. Bridging the gap between selling and messaging content and connecting you with your audience.
Check out this video from Ida Maria called Stella:
Stella Pop, we don't make the pop, we make the fizz!
Call...
Does your business have a gorilla for sale?
Better get one and fast!
All businesses needs a differentiator, a big freakin' gorilla. Bet you already have one, hidden in a closet, go look real quick and come back and then watch the video. It's funny and has a way of getting in your head, thanks Michael Unger.
As I said, every business needs a differentiator, the online vehicles presently exist and these platforms can do most of the heavy lifting when it comes to connecting your business with your audience. The audience that one day will become your expanding client base.
Go ahead,...
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