With the season of little black cocktail dresses on the horizon, what better way to switch it up than to look at a new application for black. While “Orange is the New Black” is a hit TV program with many, apparently when it comes to toilet paper, black might be the new white. Who knew? Apparently the most mundane and functional of items, toilet paper, was due for a … [Read more...]
Archives for December 2013
Westjet Marketing Magic
By now many of you have likely viewed the “Westjet Christmas Miracle” video that has gone viral since being posted last Sunday evening. It paints a charming tale of how the airline cleverly created Christmas magic by greeting customers at the Calgary luggage carousel with individually wrapped gifts matching their Christmas wish expressed only hours before in the Toronto … [Read more...]
Are you ready to buy with a QR code or NFC tag?
I initially stumbled onto the Walmart toy display by accident. It was Nov 5th, and I was barely recovering from receiving my coffee from Starbucks in a Christmas cup. I still had a burnt out pumpkin on my deck from Halloween. And I wasn’t even IN Walmart at the time, so let’s call it an “unprovoked attack” of holiday marketing. I’ve only brought myself to write about … [Read more...]