In what has become an annual tradition at DMR, below is my list of brands and retailers that are offering Black Friday and Cyber Monday deals for 2018 . I have been doing this for four years now and I … [Read more...]
The 10 Most Expensive States To Live In (2016)
In today's 10Things installment, we take a look at a Top 10 list you probably don't want to be on. CNBC recently used their cost of living calculation for each of the 50 states to identify the most … [Read more...]
10 Vintage TV Commercials You Won’t Believe You Forgot
There was much to love about TV in the 1980's: Kick-ass prime time lineups, Saturday morning cartoons, music videos on MTV, the newness of cable TV, and the ads. Yes, the ads. It feels like TV … [Read more...]
10 Foods You’ll be Shocked You Can’t Buy Anymore
Life seemed to pass by a bit quicker when we were young and so much that we experienced was taken for granted then and forgotten since. One often forgotten element is the food that we ate. You might … [Read more...]
How To: Add a Star Wars Lightsaber to Your Facebook Profile Picture
With the upcoming release of Star Wars Episode 7: The Force Awakens, Disney has released a fun little overlay app that will help you show off your Star Wars love. The new app adds a Star Wars … [Read more...]
Geek Christmas Decorations
With the exponential growth of the internet of things, the release of a new Star Wars movie and the resurgence of geek chic, this year there is no shortage of fun and interesting Christmas … [Read more...]
PR Trends to Watch for in 2016
With 2016 fast approaching, it’s time to start thinking of your Public Relations strategy for the coming year. Having a concrete plan will ensure that you stay ahead of the curve and have a leg up on … [Read more...]
10 Awesome Cereals of the 80’s That Aren’t Around Anymore
The 80's were a special time to be a kid. Modern commercialism was just coming into its own and we had awesome toys, cartoons and movies to be entertained by. Video games were exploding on the scene … [Read more...]
The 10 Most Popular Halloween Costumes – 2015 Edition
Every year, we can get a pretty decent gauge on the state of pop culture by checking out what the most popular Halloween costumes are. Tastes and trends evolve over the years, but what is usually … [Read more...]
The 10 Strangest Pumpkin Spice Products You Can Actually Buy
More and more every year, it seems like a wave of pumpkin spice mania comes storming into town taking over just about everything we consume right around Labor Day and continuing through Thanksgiving. … [Read more...]
How To: Stay Creative (VIDEO)
In my searches for something interesting to share on a lazy spring morning, I came across this video from TO-FU design on staying creative. It is such a simple video, yet so well designed that I … [Read more...]
10 Things You Didn’t Know About Christmas
With Christmas just around the corner, I am sure you are all running around buying and wrapping presents, cooking and traveling all over creation. I am in the same boat, but I thought it may be … [Read more...]
How To: Figure Out What Christmas Movie to Watch Tonight (Infographic)
OK, so unless you are REALLY delinquent in your Christmas shopping and are going to be out until the stores close tonight, you likely will be looking for something to watch. How about a good Christmas … [Read more...]
10 Saturday Morning Cartoons You Were Probably Watching in 1985
Every Saturday morning, it saddens me to no end when I see my son watching random Disney channel reruns before soccer practice. Yes, these days kids have many more viewing options and with on demand … [Read more...]
What are the Top 10 Most Annoying Sounds?
We all have a specific sound that we just can't stand to listen to. With me, it is excessive stirring and slurping of drinks. OK, that's probably two noises, but the combo drives me nuts. Chances are, … [Read more...]
Top 10 (and Bottom 5) Shows from NBC’s Thursday Night “Must-See TV” Lineup 1982-2004
For Generation Xers and older Millennials like myself, TV on Thursday nights was once appointment-viewing. Starting in 1982 with a lineup of hits like Cheers, Fame, Taxi and Hill Street Blues and … [Read more...]
The Top 10 Halloween Songs for Your Party Playlist
In case you were looking to put together a last-minute Spotify playlist for your Halloween party this weekend, you may find this post slightly helpful. Recently, our friends at Billboard compiled a … [Read more...]
10 Horror Movies That Will Scare the Crap Out of You This Weekend
As Halloween quickly approaches, we are all in the mood for a good scare, so it may be good to take a moment and reflect on a few holiday movies. Horror movies generally go in one direction or … [Read more...]
The Top 10 Songs in the US This Week in 1990
It's Friday and your mind is probably not all that into work right about now. Probably as good a time as any to take our weekly trip down memory lane and take a look at 10 songs that were probably … [Read more...]
The Top 10 Halloween Costume Trends of 2014
Don't you love when you walk into work and a coworker is wearing something very similar to what you have on? It is so much fun to hear "Hey, did you two call each other?" all day long. Well, … [Read more...]
10 Super-Easy Gluten Free Recipes Your Family Will Love
So, because holding down a full-time marketing job, spending 4+ hours a day commuting, keeping up with a 3-year-old and running a few pretty active websites, wasn't enough activity, I decided about a … [Read more...]
10 Movies You Might Have Been Watching This Week in 1989
October 1989 was a pretty interesting time in the US. Of course, we all know what happened in San Francisco on October 17th, where a 6.9 earthquake hit, killing 67 and canceling a World Series game. … [Read more...]
Top 10 Songs in the US This Week in 1984
Looking for a little blast from the past??? As I expand the types of lists offered here on 10Things, I thought it would be fun to throw in a few music factoids. Here are the top 10 songs in the US on … [Read more...]
Surefire Ways to Boost your Online Brand Reputation
Nowadays, people go to the internet and online shops to post their items and look for buyers or look for sellers for particular items. Internet has indeed marked a big contribution in our lives … [Read more...]
5 Tips for Creating the Best About Us Page
In today’s multi-device, micro-content frenzy, there aren’t many opportunities for your audience to become thoroughly acquainted with your brand; an opportunity to really explain where you came from, … [Read more...]
Market Research Tips for your Small Business
Either you have a small business already and haven't done any real market research yet, or you are looking to start a new small business and want to make sure you are making the right decisions. You … [Read more...]
A Case Study in How NOT to Handle Online Reviews
In a world that runs online and is fueled by online reviews, conversations and comments, it’s inevitable that some negativity is bound to find its way to your brand. You can’t control the opinions of … [Read more...]
5 Quick Tips to Turn Up Your ROI at B2B Events
According to the Content Marketing Institute’s benchmark report “B2B Content Marketing 2014,” for the fourth year in a row B2B content marketers rate in-person events as the most effective tactic that … [Read more...]
How To: Maximize Your Facebook Post Reach Through Proper Timing
It is no secret that Facebook has been putting the squeeze on businesses for quite some time now. Like just about every other online property that is trying to survive financially, Facebook is … [Read more...]
7 Tips for Producing Highly Effective Corporate Videos
Corporate videos can be turned into productive marketing tools. The task at hand is by no means an easy one. You will have to consider several factors before you can turn your video into an aggressive … [Read more...]
5 New Things That Should Be On Your Business Cards
Everyone knows what should go on business cards, right? If you're like most professionals, your business card probably includes some combination of the following: your name your title your … [Read more...]
5 Core Attributes Of Experiential Marketing
Experiential marketing is a method of advertising that focuses on helping customers experience a brand. By forming a lasting emotional connection between the customer and the brand, customer loyalty … [Read more...]
Feedback Frenzy: How to Get and Use Customer Reviews to Improve Your Business’ Online Presence
Customer reviews can be incredibly useful for your business. Not only do they make your business come across as trustworthy and open, but they can also provide a number of SEO benefits to increase … [Read more...]
Customer-Centric Sales: What Modern Retail Success is All About
Cloud computing isn't just for the 2000s anymore. The dot-coms of the 1990s paved the way for a new business model, even if it was a bit sloppy. Rudimentary cloud-based computing promised software in … [Read more...]
How to Use Marketing Automation as a Powerful Sales Tool
Marketing Automation solutions are commonly seen as tools specifically designed to help marketing teams reduce operational inefficiencies and cost. But in reality, the biggest value of marketing … [Read more...]
Online Immortality: 5 Ways to Creating Evergreen Content
Online content, whatever type of media it may be in, should be born out of effort. It must strive to provide thought-provoking question and answers or show solutions, all from deep-seated industry … [Read more...]
How to Develop B2B Personas for Remarkable Content Marketing
What’s a Persona? Buyer personas are fictional characters that marketing leaders create to represent the people they sell to. A persona integrates the characteristics of typical buyers. For a … [Read more...]
5 Top Twitter Tools To Improve Performance
There are numerous reasons to join Twitter. The platform is increasingly becoming many users preferred social media site. One of the main attractions to Twitter is the open nature of interaction that … [Read more...]
Are You a Digital Hoarder? (Infographic)
Are you a digital hoarder? Be honest. In some sense, we all end up digital hoarders eventually. You don't have to be some sort of obsessive-compulsive collector to have things pile up. Data and media … [Read more...]
5 Ways to Use Technology to Increase Productivity
Sometimes we may think of technology as being harmful to our productivity. After all, how many times do we check Facebook or our personal e-mail accounts during the workday? It may seem that the more … [Read more...]
Guest Post: How Print Marketing Can Generate Facebook Likes
If you administer a Facebook page, you know that the key to turning your page into a successful social media marketing platform is generating likes. The more fans you have, the farther every message … [Read more...]
Guest Post: 6 Ways to Improve Your Customer Service and Increase Sales
With the rise in popularity of social media as a medium for communication, customer service has transformed from a one-on-one private interaction via phone call to a public open forum published on the … [Read more...]
Guest Post: 5 Ways to Increase Demand For Your Company
Quick: Think of a company that's in high demand. Got it? Now, ask yourself how that company got that way. Companies and brands that are in high demand enjoy severe customer loyalty and a proliferation … [Read more...]
Johnny Five is Alive…and Made Out of LEGO…
A little while back, I was rummaging flickr, looking for an image for a guest post and I stumbled on something pretty awesome. Check out this LEGO version of Johnny Five that somebody made out of … [Read more...]
How To: Track Santa Claus’ Travels Digitally (2015 )
The big night is almost upon us and once again, a couple of our favorite digital platforms are making it easy for you and your kids to track Santa Claus' journey from the North Pole. 2015 … [Read more...]
10 “Must-Get” Gift Ideas for the Digital Geek in Your Life
Let's face it; us digital geeks are tough to buy for. We generally like gadgets that many of our friends and family never knew existed and we ALWAYS want the latest technology. Oh, and occasionally we … [Read more...]
Guest Post: 5 Direct Mail Marketing Cheat Sheets
Despite claims that “print is dead,” direct mail marketing continues to be one of the most – if not the most – effective ways of driving new and repeat business. Engaging in direct mail marketing … [Read more...]
1,000,000!!!
I am excited to announce that DMR just crossed 1 million pageviews for 2013...and no, I didn't hit refresh 999,999 times. While some marketing sites see over a million pageviews a month, I am very … [Read more...]
Guest Post: Tips for Starting an Ecommerce Website from Scratch
Most businesses and business processes are getting automated and are shifting online. More importantly, a large number of people around the world are buying goods and paying for services online. While … [Read more...]
Guest Post: What You Should Know about Domain Names and Trademarks
One of the things you need to look out for when you’re in the process of checking the availability of a domain name is a trademark. Although .com, .net, and .org domains generally follow a first come, … [Read more...]
Guest Post: 25 Ways a Video Producer Brings Value to Your Web Video Production?
Corporate and business promotions call for the need of 21st century- video content. With the onset of this competitive decade, there is a constrain on marketing budgets and it is the era of economic … [Read more...]
Guest Post: Qualitative Market Research and How It Can Be Used To Defend Your Digital Brand
With the number of tools out there to create websites, sell products and create a digital brand that spans the globe, the digital marketplace is more competitive than ever. Honing your brand and … [Read more...]
Guest Post: How to Build a Community for Your Blog
Increase your reader participation According to study done by one Jakob Nielsen on internet usability, a majority of online users are ‘lurkers’; the ones who stay at the background reading your … [Read more...]
Happy Canada Day!
In honor of their national holiday, I dug up a little clip that highlights some of the more famous celeb exports from Canada. Bet you didn't know all these people were from Canada. I … [Read more...]
The City of Boston Like You’ve Never Seen it Before (VIDEO)
OK, so the headline implies you've seen Boston before. No doubt many of you have not, but after seeing this amazing video from the Los Angeles-based Bodhi films, you might be tempted to pay the … [Read more...]
How To: Add a Follow on Feedly Button to Your Blog (and Why You Should)
OK kids, the day we have all been dreading for month is almost upon us. Next Monday, July 1st is the day that Google Reader is no longer. There are a number of potential Google Reader replacements … [Read more...]
What are the Best Time and Day to Send an Email?
In the agency world, there are a number of "time-of-day" questions that plague marketers: What time should you post on Facebook? What time should you Tweet at? What is the best time to release … [Read more...]
How Much Time Do We Waste While at Work? (Infographic)
Do you ever sneak a peek at Facebook while on the clock? Maybe you had to check the Black Friday sales while you should be checking your work email. Maybe you engaged in a prolonged discussion about … [Read more...]
How To: Transform Any Website Into a GeoCities-Like Masterpiece
Every once in a while do you think back to the early days of the Internet and wish you could relive them. The melodious sound of the modem, chatting all night on AIM, reading your Hotmail, searching … [Read more...]
iPotty Will Keep Your Kids Entertained During Potty Training
Not being able to attend International Consumer Electronics Show (CES) this year, I have been monitoring YouTube pretty closely this week to see what new gadgets are being launched. This year, there … [Read more...]
Happy Festivus Everyone! (VIDEO)
It's December 23rd and while for some this day means crunch time for Christmas shopping (I am so glad the mall is open until 11pm), the day you need to make a few dozen cookies that you will never get … [Read more...]
The Evolution of Video Game Consoles (Infographic)
This isn't exactly digital marketing, but it is really, really cool so I wanted to share. Ript Apparel has created this very basic, but very fun trip down memory lane. In their infographic, Ript … [Read more...]
The Internet of 2002 vs the Internet of 2012 (Infographic)
Then and Now comparisons are always fun content for infographics. Here is one by Best Education Sites that shows us just how far the Internet has come over the past ten years. Enjoy the walk down … [Read more...]
Famous Left Handers in History (VIDEO)
Today is Left Handers Day, and to honor all of my fellow southpaws, I dug up this little video that highlights some of the famous lefties over the years. Two notes about this video: It looks … [Read more...]
Happy 80th Birthday LEGO!
According to their website, yesterday was the LEGO's 80th birthday. LEGO is truly one of the digital marketing Hall of Famers. They are one of the most creative and innovative brands out there and … [Read more...]
Sick of Seeing Your Friends’ Babies in Your Facebook Feed? Try This Out!
We all see it, and most of us with young children do it- we post lots of pictures of our babies on Facebook. Why not? Facebook is for sharing important moments in your life with your friends and … [Read more...]
An Infographic About Infographics
Here is a useful infographic for all you digital marketers that want to learn how to create awesomely sharable visual content. Thought I'd pass it on.... Browse more infographics. Infographic … [Read more...]
The 21st Century Dad [INFOGRAPHIC]
As we all honor the dads in our lives today and celebrate with cookouts and hardware store gift cards, I thought it would be good to share this little graphic depicting the modern-day father. Happy … [Read more...]
How To: Add a Left-Handed Link Cursor to Chrome
Gizmodo recently reported about a Chrome extension that hits home for me. "The Internet for Left-Handers" extension aims at ending Internet discrimination by flipping the link cursor (the hand … [Read more...]
[Update] Spotify Extends 6 Month Free Trial Indefinitely
Update 3/31/12: Spotify has announced that the free 6 month trial period has been extended indefinitely. Of course, this is only for the desktop version. The Spotify mobile service is still only … [Read more...]
Digital Finally Overtakes Physical Music in 2011
Here is an interesting read from Econsultancy about how digital music sales has surpassed physical music sales in 2011. Nielsen and Billboard teamed up for the report that showed 50.3% of all music … [Read more...]
LEGO Crowdsources Back to the Future Design
Update: Mashable is reporting that the LEGO Back to the Future set design is now in development and will be released in mid-2013. The set received the required 10,000 votes and LEGO was able to … [Read more...]
Baby its Cold on Google with ‘Let it Snow’ Trick
Mashable tipped everyone off this afternoon that Google has created another fun hidden search-related trick. Type 'Let it Snow' on Google.com and watch your browser turn into a winter wonderland. … [Read more...]
Word Cloud Tool Analyzes Your Facebook, Twitter, Google+ and More
Update 11/18/15: Mobile entertainment company vonvon, just released a new Facebook word cloud tool that analyzes a user's Facebook activity and generates a word cloud of their most frequently used … [Read more...]
How To: Search for Flights on Google
Google recently launched a new search feature that may prove to he very helpful in your travels. Now you can easily search for flights just using the word "flight." It simple. Say you want to … [Read more...]
Thank You Easter Bunny!
It has been said that if a commercial stays with you for a period of time, it is pretty effective. Well, here is one from about 25 years ago that I still think of every Easter. Whomever came … [Read more...]
Are Brick and Mortar City Libraries Still Necessary?
This certainly isn't a political blog, but with all of the recent fervor over local, state and federal budget shortfalls, it got me thinking about areas in governmental budgets where technology could … [Read more...]
New App Helps You Find a Parking Spot
Now there is an app that tells you where the nearest parking garage is, its hours of operation, where its entrances are and how much it costs to park there. Parking in Motion operates on … [Read more...]
Stumbled Across: Website for one-stop essential software download shopping
We've all been there. Either you get a new computer or you have had trouble with your old computer and need to reinstall all your software. Finding all the 'freebies' you had or need on your computer … [Read more...]