by Freddy J. Nager, Founder of Atomic Tango LLC + Professional Klout Abstainer I often start my posts with a joke, so here it is: Klout. Not laughing? That’s because the joke may be on marketers who think Klout is a good tool to promote their brands. Why? Because not since spam has any marketing [...]
Tags:Cathay Pacific·Justin Bieber·Klout·marketing·Michael Arrington·social media·TechCrunch·Wired
by Freddy J. Nager, Founder of Atomic Tango LLC + Sucker for Shows about Advertising Just saw AMC’s “The Pitch” — a new reality show about ad agencies going head-to-head to land an account. Although it contained the usual heavy-editing and over-dramatization of most reality shows, it was fun to second-guess real agencies in action…
Tags:advertising·marketing·reality TV·Subway·television·The Ptich
by Freddy J. Nager, Founder of Atomic Tango LLC + Lifelong Fan of the Warlord of Mars Forget the 10-foot-tall 6-limbed marauding Martians – the biggest challenge facing John Carter is his name. Or more exactly, the fact that Disney used his name as the title to his movie. Creating the second-worst sci-fi movie title [...]
Tags:Disney·focus groups·Hollywood·John Carter·marketing·naming·Pixar
by Freddy J. Nager, Founder of Atomic Tango LLC If this is the social media revolution, wake me when it’s over. Social media was supposed to forge stronger relationships between companies and customers. It was also supposed to provide a massive improvement over traditional advertising, since social media doesn’t “interrupt” people when they’re trying to [...]
Tags:advertising·LinkedIn·marketing·social media·stalking·Twitter
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 + Resolutionary Thinker I felt a great disturbance in the working force, as if millions of marketing voices cried out in terror over what their new year’s resolutions should be. After all, none of us is really gonna lose that weight or write that novel, so [...]
Tags:2012·advertising·marketing·new year's resolutions·rules·social media
by Freddy J. Nager, Founder of Atomic Tango LLC + Fellow Snarketer Seriously thinking about social media? Then think about it humorously first. Ron Shevlin has written the definitive primer for anyone considering a social marketing campaign: “Snarketing Two Dot Oh: A Humorous Look At The World Of Marketing In The Age Of Social Media” [...]
Tags:book review·education·marketing·Ron Shevlin·snark·social media
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
"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.
