AdMaverick Unplugged

November 30, 2009 in Advertising, Marketing, Social Media
Tags: beer advertising, caribbean beer, disney, disney give a day, dominican republic, facebook, in-flight media, presidente, print media, Social Media, Traditional Media, tripadvisor, twitter

While that title may sound like VH-1 called me to play a set on my French Horn, it’s actually a reference to being unplugged from Twitter and Facebook for the past two weeks. It was part experiment, part challenge from the wife and the fact that I was out of the country on pleasure didn’t [...]

Thank a Farmer

November 25, 2009 in Advertising, Agriculture, Iowa, Lessing-Flynn, Marketing, Online Marketing, Social Media
Tags: Advertising, ag, Agriculture, facebook, facebook fan page, farming, farms, Lessing-Flynn, Social Media, thank a farmer

Farmers and ranchers provide food and habitat for seventy five percent of the nation’s wildlife.  On average, 24 hours a day, 365 days a year, about $6 million in U.S. agricultural products – oilseeds, cotton, grains, meats, vegetables, snack foods, etc., are consigned for shipment for export to foreign markets.  Less than two percent of [...]

Little Debbie, You’ve Totally Redeemed Yourself!

November 23, 2009 in Advertising, Lessing-Flynn, Online Marketing, Social Media, The Lessing-Flynn Intern
Tags: intern hero, Lessing-Flynn, little debbie, little debbie muffins, McKee Foods, spencer anderson

When I was walking home from my noon class on Wednesday I checked Twitter and saw several @AdMavericks tweets about the arrival of Little Debbie muffins.  I don’t need to give you the complete run-down of this story, we’ve written and Tweeted about this before.  But what we’ve all been waiting for has finally arrived!  The [...]

Worst of the Week – R rated pics and SM Status’

November 20, 2009 in Worst of the Week
Tags: bad, colorful, courtney love, language, Marketing, no-no's, profanity, Social Media

Most likely you’ve seen the results of someone’s bad day and can obviously tell by their SM status (in an effort to keep this PG, fill in the blanks) “I hate this  F_&*!!G S*!T. My boss is an A-S.”  While the frustrations of our day weight heavy on our minds at times and using your [...]

Vote to Help Kids Worldwide Help Others

November 17, 2009 in Iowa, Lessing-Flynn, Marketing, Online Marketing, Social Media, That's Kinda Cool
Tags: anne ginther, hurricane katrina, random kid, randomkid, Social Media, talia leman

This morning I received an email from Talia Leman, an eighth grader in Iowa who is working hard to share her cause through social media efforts. The call to action in her email was to go to http://www.tinyurl.com/voteanne and vote so that her organization may win a $25,000 grant as well as share this information [...]

NFL “Ambushed” by The Captain

November 17, 2009 in Marketing
Tags: ambush marketing, Brent Celek, Captain Morgan, Dallas Cowboys, Gridiron Greats, guerilla marketing, nfl, NFL marketing, Philadelphia Eagles, super bowl

Remember that kid in your junior high class that always got in trouble, but never really got in trouble because he always knew how far he could push the limits – and never quite went beyond that point?  He was always able to smile and joke his way out of trouble.  Well, in today’s marketing [...]

Worst of the Week: Little Debbie

November 13, 2009 in Advertising, Marketing, Public Relations, The Lessing-Flynn Intern, Worst of the Week
Tags: bad PR, blog, Des Moines, Gateway Market, hostess cupcakes, hostess mini muffins, intern hero, internhero.com, iowa state university, Jiffy Mix, little debbie, little debbie muffins, otis spunkmeyer, Palmer's Deli, spencer anderson, twitter, uncle wally's

Do you know the muffin man? … The muffin man? … The muffin man?  We thought we knew the muffin man ’til he dissed our summer intern! In this case the muffin man is a she … as in Little Debbie. Sure, she looks sweet and innocent with that cute little hat, curly red hair and [...]

Iowan’s Doing Cool Things…

November 12, 2009 in Des Moines, Iowa, Public Relations, Social Media, Social Media Capital of the World, That's Kinda Cool
Tags: ad agency blog, Amy Dix, blog of the month, Des Moines, Des Moines Is Not Boring, des moines register, Des Moines the greatest city in the world, Housewife Hacks, Iowa, Karen Mracek, max plenke, Pete Jones, roxi copland, smash t-shirts, Social Media Capital of the World, twitterview

If you use Twitter long enough, you won’t only meet people that are like minded, you’ll meet a community of people willing to help you share information, and you’ll be inclined to see what they’re up to. You’ll develop relationships with people who when they meet you in person will say stuff like, “I don’t [...]

Agriculture … Evolved

November 11, 2009 in Advertising, Agriculture, Creative and Design, Lessing-Flynn, Marketing
Tags: Ag Leader, ag leader technology, agency and client, agleader, agriculture marketing, agriculture Web site, colloboration, gps farming, precision farming, press releases, site map, web copy, web creative, web design, web site, web strategy

Last week, our friends at Ag Leader launched their new web site. This was a great collobarative effort between Lessing-Flynn and the marketing department at Ag Leader for a number of reasons. Over the last few months, Lessing-Flynn worked closely with Ag Leader to develop the strategy, site map, creative, and some of the copy [...]

Worst of the Week: T-Mobile

November 6, 2009 in Advertising, Agriculture, Public Relations, Worst of the Week
Tags: bad publicity, esarcasm, farm progress, farmeriron, ford 8N, NYC Ad Agency, t-mobile, tmobile, tv commercial

We asked for nominations for worst of the week and T-Mobile showed up  twice for two different things. Here’s number one. Take a look at this video… Now this is a clever campaign – can you relate to someone in this campaign? Most likely you can, but not if you’re a farmer. You see, the [...]