
Vanity Ketchup Bottles
Posted August 9, 2006 No CommentsThere’s lots of money to be made by selling customized products. First of all, it’s a new source of revenue for the product company. Second, if your customer keeps the item for a long time (think of wine bottles with the bride and groom’s name and wedding date), the branding opportunities are tremendous.
Still, I had […]

What a Croc
Posted August 7, 2006 2 CommentsI finally let my husband buy a pair of Crocs the other day. Much as I was against him buying them, I had a fleeting thought: what if he died and I hadn’t let him get his Crocs? I guess it was a moment of weakness.
Last week I noticed 80% of the kids in the […]

First Magazine Cover Story
Posted August 4, 2006 No CommentsI was so happy to see my client’s diet featured on the cover of First Magazine (August 28, 2006). The reason why (besides the obvious) is because it took A YEAR for it to happen. I pitched the story last summer and the editor at the time seemed interested, then she moved to another publication […]

Why I Started a Blog
Posted August 2, 2006 1 CommentI’ve been wanting to start a blog for a long time, but I finally decided to set one up thanks to two factors:
1) My client, Tim Byrd, of www.voxpower.com, wanted to set one up, so that made me think that I should get mine up before his and
2) Loren Gray, of www.oplhotels.com, gave me a […]