February 12, 2010      By: admin  
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Yesterday in Paris, a court tribunal ordered EBay to pay Louis Vuitton over $310,000 in legal costs and damages for using search terms that “misled consumers,” by driving consumers to the EBay website. The court also supported Louis Vuitton’s claim that EBay’s actions damaged the Louis Vuitton brand.

What I find most interesting about this case [...]

February 11, 2010      By: admin  
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As part of our latest installment in our 451 Heat Q&A series, we had the pleasure of speaking with Rick Clancy, the former Senior Vice President of Corporate Communications for Sony Electronics, Inc.

Rick first began his career at Sony in 1990, and over the course of two decades, was instrumental in overseeing the public [...]

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January 29, 2010      By: admin  
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I LOVE guerilla marketing, street promotions and any form of alternative marketing. I am not really sure why I do. Maybe, it’s because there is an opportunity to connect in person with someone who represents the brand? Maybe, it’s because I love out-of-the-box thinking, or because it spices up my day?
In any case, these are [...]

November 24, 2009      By: admin  
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The Holiday season is underway and Thanksgiving will be here before some of us even had a chance to think too much about it. That’s never a good thing during the one time of the year that you should be ready to express how thankful you are for what you have (instead of complaining about [...]

November 4, 2009      By: admin  
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I first recognized the importance of texting when I realized it was the only way I could reach my teenage son. I discovered through a lot of trial and error that he couldn’t be bothered answering his cell phone, but that a text message would bring a rapid-fire response. I was also dismayed (I mean, enlightened) when his older [...]

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Social Media
October 2, 2009      By: admin  
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“You know about social media, you want to use social media, you have a budget for social media, but you are worried about wasting time and resources, if you don’t do it right. Worse yet, you have heard the horror stories about social media causing tremendous damage to brands and you want to know how [...]

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