Here’s my friend Holli singing the song “Always Be My Baby” from her favorite artist, Mariah Carey. This one really displays her “range.” Click the link below to enjoy.
Holli’s Hits – Always Be My Baby
Click here to access her library of previous hits.
Michelle sent me to the store recently with a list of things to pick up. I took Gavin with me and we began crossing things off the list like we were on a scavenger hunt for survival. We were doing well until we tried to find a tub of butter.
That’s what my list said, “tub of butter.” So I went to the appropriate section, and began to look for it. Here’s what I found: cream spread, margarine, and I can’t believe it’s not butter. No tub of butter. This was a dilemma. I’m beginning to realize what is on the line here (have you ever brought home the wrong item to your wife?). Gavin is starting to look through our cart and randomly throw things out that he doesn’t seem to think should be there, and I still can’t find a tub of butter. After staring idly for a few minutes I ended up grabbing something called Country Crock and hoped for the best.
But I think I’ve found a real market here: grocery store items for men. Someone needs to come out with a line of all the essentials: milk, eggs, baking supplies, butter… and give them obvious names with no other wording on it for the guys that get sent to the store on behalf of their families. Imagine how much different my experience would be if I glanced over and saw a tub with only three words on it.
So if you are in marketing, or are looking for a breakthrough idea to get out of your current career, then take this idea and run with it. I’d love to hear some more ideas from you guys on what products could be included in this to pull this idea off!
This post is inspired by a Scott McClellan tweet in which he wrote: “How do you tell a spam blog comment from a real one? Most of the time, the spam comment will be more polite.”
If you don’t manage your own blog, this might not make sense to you. If you do, it is hilariously profound…and true. So I decided to look through some of the spam comments that were left on my blog that my filter caught. Before now, you’d never read these here, and you’d totally miss how much these spammers think of me. Check out a few of their sincere compliments to my creativity and overall impressiveness. Each of these comes with a fantastic link to a website that I won’t include here (nor will I correct the grammar in them).
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Clearly the assumption many spammers have taken is that if they compliment a blogger then he’s sure to approve the comment. Fortunately for me, I have enough honest people around me that it would be a bit tough for me to believe the sincerity of comments like these.
Or maybe I should start spamming comments from people like you and approve only comments like these? Something to think about…
I have a friend named Holli that LOVES to sing in the car. While that may not sound unusual, she also loves to record herself singing and send it to a handful of us to enjoy. It dawned on me that this is too good to keep to myself, so I’m thinking of periodically posting these here for you to enjoy as well. She told me she’d even take requests! Click on the link below to hear Holli’s rendition of 27 seconds of the Black Eyed Peas song, Imma Be.
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