Posted by Shelly Kramer on August 20, 2010 · View Comments
How about a smile? Surely, you’ve got that in you.
I was doing some research today and ran across the It’s Time to Smile video of The Compliment Guys. It was shot by my client, Back Alley Films’ director Jesse Selwyn, for Kodak’s Brightside Tour in the fall of 2009. It made me smile.
The back story, [...]
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Posted by Shelly Kramer on August 15, 2010 · View Comments
By now, if you’ve not heard of Steven Slater, the Jet Blue flight attendant who got fed up by a rude passenger and snapped, I’m thinking you might well live under a rock. The back story – as the plane was taxiing in, an anxious passenger unbuckled and stood up, reaching for the overhead bin [...]
Filed under Featured Articles, Pop Culture and Current Events, Ramblings, Social Media Marketing · Tagged with Conan O'Brien, Jet Blue, Jet Blue guy, Jimmy Fallon, Kansas City Marketing Agency, Kansas City Social Media Agency, NBC, Shelly Kramer, socialmedia, Steven Slater, twitter
Posted by Shelly Kramer on July 8, 2010 · View Comments
This is what my friend Erika Napoletano, the infamous Chief Redhead at Redhead Writing, would call a Bitch Slap. Damn, but I wish I’d thought of that.
I’ll ask again … do you have a job? If so, it’s probably because the business you work for has customers. And when was the last time you gave [...]
Filed under Consumer Behavior, Marketing Tips, Ramblings · Tagged with Consumer Behavior, consumer loyalty, Cosentinos Brookside Market, Costentinos Kansas City, customer service, Hen House Kansas City, Hen House markets, Kansas City Marketing Agency, Kansas City Small Business Marketing, Kansas City Social Media Marketing Agency, KC small business marketing, small business marketing strategy, Yelp
Posted by Shelly Kramer on July 7, 2010 · View Comments
Today’s children are our future. These wacky toddlers–the ones playing dress up and tee ball today–are the legacy that we collectively leave. We’re not responsible to our bosses, our clients or our neighbors–we’re really responsible, or we should be, to these children. And it just takes a few small changes, done at your own pace, [...]
Posted by Shelly Kramer on June 18, 2010 · View Comments
Anyone who knows me knows that I’m beyond sick about the BP oil spill, the worst environmental disaster the U.S. has ever experienced, and think (and rant) about it often. That said, sometimes a little humor in the face of tragedy goes a long way. This spot does just that. With 5+ million YouTube views [...]
Posted by Shelly Kramer on June 16, 2010 · View Comments
Yesterday’s airwaves were filled with the angst of eager Apple iPhone 4 enthusiasts over the massive cluster-you-know-what that the preorder day turned out to be.
Both AT&T’s and Apple’s servers collapsed, there were reports of multiple incorrect orders, stores closing because they couldn’t handle the strain and — horror of all horrors — staffers in some [...]
Filed under Featured Articles, Ramblings · Tagged with Apple, Apple iPhone 4, ATT, Fox News, Gizmodo, iPad, iPad email addresses hacked, iPhone, Kansas City Marketing Agency, Kansas City Social Media Agency, Mark Schaefer, privacy, security breach, Yahoo News
Posted by Shelly Kramer on May 20, 2010 · View Comments
Okay, so Loren Feldman of 1938 Media has a wicked sense of humor. No doubt about it.
And, while I didn’t stand on line (yes, I’m from New York, we say “on line” – deal with it) like Scoble and scores of others for 22 hours to get mine, I still fall into that early adopter [...]
Posted by Shelly Kramer on April 30, 2010 · View Comments
Today at SOBCon one of the event sponsors, the great folks at Intuit, had the brilliant idea for an exercise for the group. The challenge: Come up with a list of things you want to bill the Internet for. It was a perfect example of the great things that happen at SOBCon – the audience [...]
Filed under Featured Articles, Online Marketing, Ramblings · Tagged with ATT, facebook, GMail, Google, Internet, Intuit, Liz Strauss, Microsoft, Peanut Butter Jelly Song, SOBCon
Posted by Shelly Kramer on April 20, 2010 · View Comments
As much as it pains me to admit it, every single time I reach for a bag of potato chips (which I love), or a piece of chocolate, or a ding dong cookie, an image of that annoying Joyce Cherrier and her perfect abs pops into my head. That doesn’t mean I don’t buy [...]
Filed under Branding / Identity, Featured Articles, Ramblings, Social Media Marketing · Tagged with @joycecherrier, @redheadwriting, blogging, Erika Napoletano, fitness, inspiration, Joyce Cherrier, seo, SOB Awards, SOBCon, Successful-Blog, writing
Posted by Shelly Kramer on March 13, 2010 · View Comments
Okay, so I discovered this video this morning while hanging out with my friends Alli Worthington and Sarah Caminker in our posh room at the Fiesta de la Quinta in Austin. We’re at SXSW, the veritable mecca of the tech world (or at least one of them) and so, it was especially timely to stumble [...]
Posted by Shelly Kramer on March 1, 2010 · View Comments
It was only a matter of time until there was an app for stupidity. The new TigerText app, aptly named given the antics of the Cheetah of the Year, Tiger Woods, allows for the do-overage of embarrassing text messages. Praise Jesus. It’s about time.
Clamoring for more info? Tired of regretting those embarrassing drunken texts [...]
Filed under Featured Articles, Ramblings · Tagged with Android, Apple, BlackBerry, iPhone, iPhone app, James Bond, text messaging, Tiger Woods, TigerText, Time
Posted by Michelle Lamar on February 17, 2010 · View Comments
I love the Internet because the world wide web allows me to share important things like this picture of Mr. ET.
I pity the fool who doesn’t laugh at Mr. ET! The ability to share my immature sense of humor is just of the reasons I love the Internet.
Twilight Saga star Kellan Lutz has created quite [...]
Posted by Shelly Kramer on January 17, 2010 · View Comments
Okay, so here’s the deal. I made a post on Facebook a few weeks ago mentioning that I used to have killer arms and that, to my chagrin, they now seem ordinary. I am committed to getting them back to the stellar mode and trudging through the Valley of Pain in order to make that [...]
Posted by Shelly Kramer on January 3, 2010 · View Comments
Well, seriously, don’t we all FEEL fat? In some way or another. Especially this time of year. No one is ever really where they want to be, and everyone is inevitably focused on some kind of self-improvement.
I was at the gym this morning suffering through yet another date with the elliptical machine. As I pounded [...]
Posted by Shelly Kramer on November 26, 2009 · View Comments
I have to think I’m not alone when it comes to the massive craziness associated with Black Friday. Frankly, I can’t imagine getting up at the crack of dawn to go and shop for anything, must less wait on lines, fight crowds or deal with the inevitable holiday madness (and rudeness) that seems to abound. [...]
Filed under Ramblings · Tagged with Black Friday, Black Friday shopping, coupons, discounts, free shipping, Gen X, Gen Y, holiday, holiday shopping, Internet, online, online deals, savings, social media, socialmedia, web
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