DSM: SUSHIBOMB

August 3, 2010 in Advertising, Creative and Design, Des Moines, Direct Marketing, DSM: SUSHIBOMB, Event Marketing, Iowa, Lessing-Flynn, Marketing, Social Media, That's Kinda Cool, Traditional Media
Tags: 80/35, bacon, bacon fest, blog, Chris Hanson, Des Moines, des moines sushi bomb, dsm: sushibomb, event, facebook, jess held, MediaCom, sakari, Social Media, spencer anderson, sushi, Traditional Media, twitter, youtube

Going to Des Moines’ sushi restaurants has become a frequent occurrence for many of us at Lessing-Flynn. We’ve turned non believers like Jess Held and sushi virgins like our former intern, Spencer Anderson into brand advocates of all things sushi. About six months ago, a few of us from Lessing-Flynn were having lunch at Sakari, a fairly new and [...]

A Little Help from Our Friends

June 10, 2010 in Advertising, blogging, Event Marketing, Iowa, Marketing, Non-Profit, Social Media
Tags: Bill Cosby, blog, Bob Montgomery, facebook, Iowa, johnston green days, Jomarie Tucci, Leslie Malcolm, Lessing-Flynn, Light the Night for Sight, MediaCom, Moriah Lutz-Tveite, OnMedia, passion, prevent blindness iowa, pro bono, Professional Video, ProVidInc., PSA, Public Service Announcement, Rod Dougherty, Social Media, Tim Bloomquist, twitter, Webby Awards, youtube

When you’re passionate about something, people can sense it. Passion seems to bring the best out of others. It certainly brings out the best in me. I could list all of the personal reasons I am passionate about what Prevent Blindness Iowa does for our community- but I’d like you to find out for yourself through [...]

Battle of the Brands: Health & Home Results

June 9, 2010 in Battle of the Brands, Branding, Des Moines, Iowa, Lessing-Flynn, Marketing
Tags: heartland plastic and reproductive surgery, homemakers, hubbell, iowa health system, iowa realty, iowa vein center, MediaCom, mercy medical center, Mid American Energy, next generation realty, redekers, the iowa clinic, The Weitz Company, wellmark, Whylie Eye Care, Wolfe Eye Clinic

Congratulations to Wolfe Eye Clinic, The Iowa Clinic, Iowa Health System, Iowa Vein Center, Homemakers, Mid American Energy, The Weitz Company and Iowa Realty.You’re moving on to round two of Lessing-Flynn‘s Battle of the Brands! You will find the results for all of the Health & Home region first round results below. Updated brackets: JPG Version – [...]

Battle of the Brands: Health & Home Region Round 1

June 4, 2010 in Battle of the Brands, Branding, Des Moines, Iowa, Lessing-Flynn
Tags: battle of the brands, Des Moines, heartland plastic and reproductive surgery, homemakers, hubbell, Iowa, iowa brands, iowa companies, iowa health system, iowa realty, iowa vein center, Lessing-Flynn, MediaCom, mercy medical center, midamerican energy, next generation realty, predictions, redekers, the iowa clinic, weitz, wellmark, Whylie Eyes, Wolfe Eye Clinic

Welcome to the second full day of Lessing-Flynn‘s Battle of the Brands and Round 1 of the Health & Home Region. If you want to vote on previously posted match-ups, you will find those links at the bottom of this post.  You can VOTE HERE for match-ups in this  bracket or read through the match-ups and find another voting [...]

Love The One You’re With

January 12, 2010 in Advertising, CRM, Marketing, Public Relations
Tags: andrew clark, back to the future reference, customer retention, directv, love the one you're with, mcfly, MediaCom, stephen stills, The Brand Chef, think, think mcfly

I gotta give a small hat tip to my buddy, Andrew Clark, a.k.a. The Brand Chef for some inspiration on this one. You see, Mr. Brand Chef does a good job of incorporating music into his social offering every day, so Andrew, enjoy. I was a DIRECTV customer for about four years. I had the [...]

Worst of the Week: The North Face

January 8, 2010 in Marketing, Public Relations, Worst of the Week
Tags: Brett Trout, defending trademarks, Gandhi, Jimmy Winkelmann, KDSM Fox 17, MediaCom, Mike Tyson, PR mistake, public relations mistake, Sinclair Broadcasting, South Butt Clothing, The North Face, The South Butt, VF Corporation

Meet little Jimmy Winkelmann. An entrepreneurial student just looking to make a few bucks to help pay for his college tuition by selling $27 sweatshirts and $15 t-shirts.  Seems pretty innocent … until you learn that he is doing this by sucking the profit out of the $7 billion apparel giant, VF Corporation and its [...]

Shout out for Ingersoll Live ’09

August 26, 2009 in Creative and Design, That's Kinda Cool
Tags: ADIO Chiropractic/The Stickel Chiropractic Group, Badower's Reichardt's on Ingersoll, Bauder's Pharmacy, Beeline-Blue, Caribou coffee, Dahls, des moines east village, des moines event, east village, Fitness By Design, Freedom Financial Bank, Great Harvest Bread, greenwood lounge, ingersoll ave, ingersoll avenue, Ingersoll Dental Group, Louie's Floor Covering, MediaCom, Palmer's Deli & Market, Star Bar, Tandem Brick, The Mansion, US Bank and Voss Distributing LLC.

This Saturday, August 29th, from 4-11 p.m. will be the annual Ingersoll Live event. There will be kids activities, beer and wine, food, art, vendor booths and live performances by Faculty Lounge, Sonny Humbucker and the Isiserettes Drill & Drum Corp. This is no small time deal either. Past attendance has been in the 6,000 [...]