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The state of the housing market has been, and continues to be, a hot topic. It’s a hot topic in my personal life too because after years of waiting for the “right time to buy” I am closing on my [...]

Since I work for a company that specializes in marketing, I pay more attention to ads than the average Chicagoan. For the most part I don’t spend more than about 3-4 seconds on any one ad, but [...]

Usually we are all about you reading this blog. But while we’d still like to be the top link in your Bookmarks folder, today we’re suggesting you check out a different blog—and we think you’ll [...]

Every year, when we’re just getting over the Holiday Season Fever, we come down with another marketing illness: the Valentine’s Day Flu. From January 1 to February 14, our airwaves, mailboxes and [...]

I would be lying to you if I said I have never dreamed of winning an Oscar for my undiscovered movie talents, and I would be flat-out in Pinocchio mode if I said I haven’t practiced my future [...]

Before you read any further, a disclaimer: this is not a post about politics. This is not about which party is better or who should win the election or whether or not insert candidate’s name here [...]

USA! USA! USA! Sorry, we’re having a hard time letting go of the Olympics. To ease our Olympic withdrawal, we turned to our other obsession, marketing, and found you some of the most interesting [...]

When an advanced alien race discovers the ruins of our civilization and studies our culture, they’ll probably declare our time as the Age of the Memes. Memes are everywhere nowadays. They’ve [...]

Retail giant JC Penney recently embarked on a bold new way of doing business. And like other pioneers, such as Everest explorers, Oregon Trail immigrants and that poor monkey we shot into space, [...]

Wedding season is upon us! Though we’ve been married to our beloveds, marketing and design, for quite some time, we find that our love only grows stronger over the years. Let us celebrate the [...]