by Freddy J. Nager, Founder of Atomic Tango LLC + Practicing Skeptic When I was fresh out of college, I met this millionaire who made his fortune selling diamond jewelry through supermarket tabloids. You may be wondering, what kind of jewelry sells through the cheesiest rags on the planet — newspapers that you wouldn’t dare [...]
Tags:AllFacebook.com·critical thinking·diamonds·ethics·Facebook·hype·marketing·quantipulation·small business marketing·social media·statistics
by Freddy J. Nager, Founder of Atomic Tango LLC + Guy Who Buys Too Much Stuff for His Cats They had me at “meow.” They lost me at “sign up.” I was flipping through Facebook, unmarking most of the “Top Story” posts (seriously, Zuckerberg, get your algorithm right already). And that’s when it caught my [...]
Tags:advertising·Cat Pods·cats·e-commerce·Fab.com·Facebook·Groupon·marketing·online shopping
by Freddy J. Nager, Founder of Atomic Tango LLC + Social Media Realist Are you oppressed by a bloodthirsty dictator? Do you want freedom and democracy without having to fight for them? Well, now you can harness the same power that’s made Ashton Kutcher and Justin Bieber leaders of their respective generations! It’s as easy [...]
Tags:criticism·Facebook·humor·hype·revolution·satire·social media·spoof·Twitter
by Freddy J. Nager, Founder of Atomic Tango LLC & Business Lit Connoisseur Note: The following is meant to be satirical. The author has no affiliation with the Harvard Business Review or any idea what its editors could possibly be thinking. For 88 years, the Harvard Business Review has been the authoritative voice of critical [...]
Tags:academic journals·business publishing·Facebook·Goldman Sachs·Harvard Business Review·HBR·journalism·Mark Zuckerberg·satire·spoof·Twitter·Umair Haque
by Freddy J. Nager, Founder of Atomic Tango LLC and Capitalist Relationship Counselor Dear John Corporation: Let me begin by saying that our times together have been good for me. I mean it! I definitely see the value in being with you… to a certain extent. So what I’m about to say might seem cold [...]
Tags:consumers·CRM·customer relationship marketing·Facebook·marketing·one-to-one marketing·social media·Twitter
by Freddy J. Nager, Founder & Fusion Director, Atomic Tango So let’s trip back to 1876, the year the telephone was invented… Hmmm… something’s missing here… and I’m not talking about Starbucks on every corner… Oh, I know: there’s no one here calling themselves a “Phone Guru,” “Phone Visionary” or some other phone-y title. There [...]
Tags:business·Facebook·marketing·social media·social networks·Twitter
My friend and primo YouTube dude Kevin “Nalts” Nalty just let loose his take on social media. He calls his article “The Stupidest,” but I found it way more insightful than most of the tripe posing as social media advice.
Tags:Facebook·Kevin Nalty·marketing·Nalts·Robert Scoble·satire·social media·spoof·Tony Robbins·Twitter
by Freddy J. Nager, Founder & Fusion Director, Atomic Tango LLC MySpace is losing it. And I’m not talking about its members defecting to Facebook. Last year, the once mighty, world dominating social network that had crushed its predecessor Friendster suddenly found itself splattered on Facebook’s windshield. At first, MySpace responded by copying Facebook features, [...]
Tags:Disney·Facebook·Fox News·Friendster·gaming·Imeem·Jonathan Miller·MySpace·News Corp·Pandora·Rupert Murdoch·segmentation·social media·social networks·video games·Wall Street Journal·WSJ Connect
by Freddy J. Nager, Founder & Fusion Director, Atomic Tango LLC L.A. contains miles of velvet ropes that pack more protective power than the Great Wall of China. They’re fronted by large scowling men armed with high-caliber clipboards. And they’re assaulted nightly by swarms of wannabes, who are then repelled by blatant acts of discrimination [...]
Tags:business·Facebook·NIN·social networks·Spam·Super Chirp·Trent Reznor·Twitter·Web 2.0
"Common sense is the little man in a gray suit who never makes a mistake at addition, but it's always someone else's money he's adding up."
- Raymond Chandler
Let's hear it for uncommon sense: that inner itch that inspires you to stray from the herd, ditch the training wheels and leap into the fast lane. As we all know, it's the risk takers who get their faces on the cover of Wired magazine and their words on National Public Radio. No one ever remembers who won "honorable mention"...
Cool Rules Pronto celebrates uncommon sense in marketing and media. It's written by Freddy J. Nager, the Founder of the L.A.-based creative strategy agency Atomic Tango LLC, and marketing instructor at UCLA Extension and Robert Kennedy College of Zurich, Switzerland.
