Category Archives: Word of Mouth

Dunk Data and Hoops Hype

There’s plenty of budding excitement about this weekend’s NBA Slam Dunk contest, thanks to a crop of extremely athletic youngsters who may or may not be mutants from another planet. But, while the league is building up hype about these … Continue reading

The Super Bowl’s Super Tweeters

I know, I know – many of our readers are still smarting, since their beloved Bears aren’t playing this weekend. Well, it probably won’t help to know that our neighbors to the North are already winning another battle: the ever-important … Continue reading

War on Whiners Gets Real

Over the past half-year, you’ve probably seen the buzzed-about “Crunch Is Calling” campaign from Wheat Thins, in which they pounce upon unsuspecting Twitter users who’ve shared their love of the brand. The best-known spot is presumably the one where a … Continue reading

In the Mood for Something Small

We’ve blown through a slew of Sized Right examples in our trends report and Smartshot webinar, covering an admittedly wide range of applications. After all, Sized Right is our most versatile trend for 2011, with implications in-store, at home, in … Continue reading

Can We Find A Place for Check-Ins? (And Should We?)

The check-in is dead. Long live the check-in. Is it a little bold to equate the check-in with being the “king” of emerging marketing trends? Perhaps. But now that the tweet has gained a (perhaps reluctant) legitimacy, that leaves the … Continue reading

2011 Looks Beautiful So Far

Welcome back, friends of The Awesome Blog! Hope you’re as rested and refreshed as we are, because we’ve got a big year ahead of us. But, since you’re probably easing yourself back into the swing of things, we’ll go light … Continue reading

Best of 2010 on The Awesome Blog – Part 2

Following up on yesterday’s post, here’s Part 2 of The Awesome Blog’s greatest hits from 2010. The launch of our Upshot Smartshot series of 15 minute webinars has been a huge success so far. You can see the past webinars … Continue reading

Best of 2010 on The Awesome Blog – Part 1

Well, we’ve reached the end of another year of marketing madness, and The Awesome Blog has been there to guide you along the way. As you begin to take stock of 2010 and think about where you want to head … Continue reading

Look What Ya Did You Little Jerk!

Oof. Post-holiday party, it’s probably not the right day to continue our in-depth discussion about location-based services and shopper marketing applications. Nah, it’s the kind of day where we need something a little more lighthearted. Like, say, a retelling of … Continue reading

Food-Less Food Trucks

We all know that tweeting food trucks are the hottest thing to hit the streets since rollerblades (wait, when did those stop being cool?), since they provide restaurants with a fantastic opportunity to offer limited-quantity, location-specific, and exclusive eats directly … Continue reading