Everyone Wants to Feel Popular

Think of some of the successful marketing campaigns you know of—many of them focus on the feeling of popularity: “Everyone’s doing it” and “Get the XYZ that everyone wants!” There is a reason that the media does reports every holiday season about the “most popular toys and gifts”—people respond to it and everyone wants to feel like they are “in with the in crowd.” You can use this human reality in marketing your own home business. Many, many years ago, when I was first in college, I got a job doing door-to-door fundraising canvassing for a nonprofit organization. Yes, I … Continue reading

The Barbie Diaries (2006)

After watching and mostly enjoying the recent rash of Barbie movies based on different legends and fairy tales, I was curious to see “The Barbie Diaries.” I’m sorry to say that I was disappointed. To begin with, the animation was odd. Barbie looked nothing like the Barbie we’ve come to expect in the other films, and all the characters looked too real, as though we were trying to break through that Barbie mentality and see them as being real people. But that didn’t work either, because the details were missing. It was more realistic, and yet it wasn’t. The storyline … Continue reading