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April 13, 2006

Do Buddhist Marketers Talk About Grace?

- Crossroads Dispatches

I met a new friend and fellow marketer yesterday. I presumed he was Buddhist, but he dropped the word grace into our conversation one too many times. "Do Buddhists talk about grace?" "I'm not Buddhist." Oh, of course. I... ›››

Category: Awareness | Clear and Resonant Marketing | Innovators and Creators | Marketing | Start-Ups

April 12, 2006

How Marketing Can Save The World

- Crossroads Dispatches

"The Greatest Story Never Told: How Marketing Could Save the World" is the actual cover theme headline of Ode Magazine this month (issue 32). I literally did a double-take when I saw it tucked neatly in the stand as... ›››

Category: Awareness | Clear and Resonant Marketing | Marketing

April 05, 2006

How To Be In Service of (Your) Art

- Crossroads Dispatches

I don't care for coffee. The aroma's otherworldly - the taste disappoints. I prefer tea. Yet here I sit this moment sipping the Cacophony, an ecstatic blend of organic dark chocolate, a dash of cayenne pepper and espresso, at... ›››

Category: Awareness | Clear and Resonant Marketing | Innovators and Creators | announcements

March 31, 2006

Sound Familiar? Apple's Psychedelic Psychographics

- Crossroads Dispatches

Daring Fireball chastises and riffs on SF Chronicle's Sunday story on "Stubborn Apple at Risk of Making Same Mistake Twice":In a way, Apple’s survival is remarkable, author Kahney said, like a dinosaur living beyond the Ice Age. All the... ›››

Category: Blog | Clear and Resonant Marketing | Creativity | Innovators and Creators | Marketing | Silicon Valley | apple | art | beat generation | brands | counterculture | entrepreneurs | innovation | inspiration | passion | sixties | startup | web2.0

March 23, 2006

Edgy is Hot & Has Blogging 1.0 Souled Out?

- Crossroads Dispatches

I find the Beats sexy because they weren't Yes men (yeah, most of them were men, a few misogynists, and check out Diane di Prima). (Psst...the opposite of Yes-men isn't a No-man). As I write I recall a line... ›››

Category: Blog | Clear and Resonant Marketing | Creativity | Innovation | Innovators and Creators | Marketing | The Greater Hunger | apple | art | beat generation | beatblog | counterculture | entrepreneurs | inspiration | passion | startup | web2.0

March 20, 2006

Salons, Primal Howl and Satisfying Yourself First

- Crossroads Dispatches

Radical marketing thought #1 (btw, I am exploring bleeding edge of my own ideas out loud):Write as deeply, fish as far down as you want, satisfy yourself first, then reader cannot fail to receive telepathic shock and meaning-excitement by... ›››

Category: Clear and Resonant Marketing | Innovators and Creators | Marketing

February 10, 2006

The Isle of Serendipity and Intent Marketing

- Crossroads Dispatches

"Adams Branding, founded by legendary design icon, Donald Adams, has lent its innovative branding solutions and creative expertise to various national brands including, Proctor & Gamble, Starbucks and Johnson & Johnson. This year, Adams has engaged its "heart" and... ›››

Category: Awareness | Clear and Resonant Marketing | Innovators and Creators | Marketing

January 10, 2006

Sanuk, Customers, and Friends

- Crossroads Dispatches

Just before I hit publish on this post two elderly women, Germans I presume, walk into the rental car/tour operator/Internet cafe office. Your wife. She is alive? They pause for an answer. We are so happy. She helped us... ›››

Category: Awareness | Clear and Resonant Marketing | Global Lens | Marketing | Storytelling | Tsunami | Word-of-Mouth Marketing

January 09, 2006

Khao Lak: The Andaman Coast Back in Business

- Crossroads Dispatches

Photos of incinerators paint an even less complete and accurate a picture of Khao Lak today as recent media attention on the rape and murder of a Welsh tourist January 2nd displays a lawless island. Yes, there are only...... ›››

Category: Clear and Resonant Marketing | Participatory Marketing | Social Media | Tsunami | Word-of-Mouth Marketing

December 15, 2005

Travelpod Folks Helped Me Distill Essence

- Crossroads Dispatches

Travelpod is an online community for independent travellers and they offer free travel blogs as well as other features like obtaining travel insurance. (Here's my companion Travelpod blog for TsunamiAnniversary.com - with more of a traveling pilgrim's theme.) As... ›››

Category: Awareness | Clear and Resonant Marketing | Participatory Marketing | Travel | Weblogs

December 05, 2005

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A Trip to Whole Foods

- Crossroads Dispatches (feed)

I went to Whole Paycheck the other night. Hadn't been there in quite awhile as I was living frugally this year as I took a time-out from paid work post-tsunami (still engaged in pro bono work). Whole Paycheck is... ›››

Category: Clear and Resonant Marketing | Innovators and Creators

December 02, 2005

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Tapping the Field of Conversation

- Crossroads Dispatches (feed)

Almost missed an historical event. Fifty years ago today a movement began... On the evening of December 1, 1955, Rosa Parks was arrested for disobeying an Alabama law requiring black passengers to relinquish seats to white passengers when the... ›››

Category: Clear and Resonant Marketing | Innovators and Creators | Participatory Marketing | Start-Ups | Word-of-Mouth Marketing

November 30, 2005

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Coupa Café: Secrets of Buzz

- Crossroads Dispatches (feed)

A brand is not built by acquiring customers; it is built by keeping them, Nick Wreden writes in ProfitBrand, selected by Strategy + Business as the best marketing book of 2005. (Honorable mentions include All Marketers Are Liars, Brand... ›››

Category: Clear and Resonant Marketing | Customer Empathy | Innovators and Creators | Word-of-Mouth Marketing