#129: A Legal Episode

Subscribe on iTunes
RSS Feed

Emma, Official Sponsor of the UnPodcast

In this episode of the UnPodcast, we discuss some legal stories, dole out some unsolicited advice (that we won’t even charge you for).

Click to Watch

Click to Listen

Other topics include:

• [00:00:00.00]Emma Sponsorship Mention
• [00:00:32.28]Episode Overview
• [00:01:53.25]Emma Sponsorship Mention
• [00:02:30.02]Don’t Brag About Your Crimes
• [00:07:01.03]Scott’s Mixtape is Criminal
• [00:07:51.29]Outright Theft Is the New Flattery
• [00:13:15.07]Emma Sponsorship Mention
• [00:13:38.10]Hack the Ad Campaign Process
• [00:20:48.28]Our Made Up Word of the Week
• [00:24:13.10]Making Money Off Your Copyrighted Content
• [00:30:14.07]Listener Question: What is the best advice you have for new grads entering the marketing and design fields.
• [00:34:55.19]Emma Sponsorship Mention
• And so much more…

Tweet This

You probably shouldn’t brag about your crimes in song.

Powered By the Tweet This Plugin

Tweet This

Outright Theft Is the New Flattery.

Powered By the Tweet This Plugin

Tweet This

It’s time to write to @TravelLeisure.

Powered By the Tweet This Plugin

Tweet This

Bad ads don’t work anywhere. Good ads CAN work, but…

Powered By the Tweet This Plugin

Tweet This

Items Mentioned In This Episode

• Rap Song on Credit Card Scheme Tells Broader Tale, Prosecutors Say
• South Bend Apologizes for Lifting Salt Lake’s Tourism Campaign Almost Wholesale
• We Got Ripped Off By A Huge Company. Again.
• Someone’s Making Money Off Your Copyrighted Content (But It Isn’t You)

from UnMarketing http://bit.ly/293n6zy
via IFTTT

#128: Anything and Nothing Works

Subscribe on iTunes
RSS Feed

Emma, Official Sponsor of the UnPodcast

In this episode of the UnPodcast, we discuss stories of people who tried to do something (book reading, print ads, alligator pranks) that should have worked, but didn’t.

Click to Watch

Click to Listen

Other topics include:

• [00:00:00.00]Emma Sponsorship Mention
• [00:00:33.07]Alison Doodles and What’s On For Today?
• [00:01:25.19]Emma Sponsorship Mention
• [00:01:54.03]We’re Revising
• [00:04:57.13]Book Tours Are Awful
• [00:16:26.13]Signed Books
• [00:19:28.20]The 3rd Version of UnMarketing
• [00:20:35.15]Emma Sponsorship Mention
• [00:20:50.01]Fake Word of the Day
• [00:22:31.02]Every Box Has a Unique Story
• [00:26:23.13]Wendy’s Alligator
• [00:30:13.25]Listener Question: Local newspaper advertising: worth it?
• [00:34:10.23]Emma Sponsorship Mention
• And so much more…

Tweet This

Lesson#1 in Publishing: The only person selling your book is YOU.

Powered By the Tweet This Plugin

Tweet This

Book Tours are the worst, but this book reading was even worse.

Powered By the Tweet This Plugin

Tweet This

What get’s you banned from Wendy’s?

Powered By the Tweet This Plugin

Tweet This

Bad ads don’t work anywhere. Good ads CAN work, but…

Powered By the Tweet This Plugin

Tweet This

Items Mentioned In This Episode

• What To Do When No One Shows Up To Your Book Reading
• Zappos’ Cool New Shoebox Can Be Cut Up and Repurposed in a Bunch of Unique Ways
• Guy Who Threw Alligator Into Wendy’s Drive-Thru Window Gets Probation, Ordered To Stay Away From Wendy’s

from UnMarketing http://bit.ly/28QLOGc
via IFTTT

#127: A Veritable Smorgasbord

Subscribe on iTunes
RSS Feed

Emma, Official Sponsor of the UnPodcast

In this episode of the UnPodcast, we have a smorgasbord of stories for you: life-saving pizza, magical price-changing tequila, a sad cake, billboard hoaxes, instagram affiliates, political pornography, texting and driving litigation as well as listener questions.
Click to Watch

Click to Listen

Other topics include:

• [00:00:00.00]Emma Sponsorship Mention
• [00:00:32.21]The Real Show is BETWEEN the Shows
• [00:02:21.05]What’s Up?
• [00:03:29.24]Emma Sponsorship Mention
• [00:04:01.14]Pizza Saves Lives
• [00:06:24.21]Speaking of Pizza… Tequila!
• [00:09:16.11]Emma Sponsorship Mention
• [00:09:49.13]A Sad Cake Story
• [00:13:59.25]A Question of Disclosure
• [00:19:00.10]A Billboard “Hoax”
• [00:21:03.02]Emma Sponsorship Mention
• [00:21:48.21]Porn Tabs
• [00:24:41.06]Texting and Driving
• [00:27:00.12]Listener Question: Why aren’t my storytellers asked to speak at content marketing events?
• And so much more…

Tweet This

Pizza Tequila Cake… It’s a thing.

Powered By the Tweet This Plugin

Tweet This

The truth rarely catches up to the original story.

Powered By the Tweet This Plugin

Tweet This

If I suddenly die, please uninstall my Yahoo search engine.

Powered By the Tweet This Plugin

Tweet This

Why aren’t my storytellers asked to speak at content marketing events?

Powered By the Tweet This Plugin

Tweet This

Items Mentioned In This Episode

• Domino’s Workers Come To Customer’s Rescue After Noticing He Hadn’t Ordered Pizza Recently
• How Much for That Tequila Shot? The Price Is Always Changing
• Hate Cake Pastor Admits He Made Up the Whole Story
• Promotions Were Part of the Company’s March 2015 Design Lab Collection Launch
• Billboard Urges Motorists To Text and Drive
• Close Your Porn Tabs Before Posting Screenshots to Your Congressional Campaign Page
• Could You Get Sued For Texting Someone While They Are Driving?

from UnMarketing http://bit.ly/262kIAd
via IFTTT

#126: Never Tickle the Dragon

Subscribe on iTunes
RSS Feed

Emma, Official Sponsor of the UnPodcast

In this episode of the UnPodcast, we look at stories of people trying to do work, make things better, or just go about their lives and are failing gloriously.

Other topics include:

• [00:00:00.00]Emma Sponsorship Mention
• [00:00:31.09]Peeling Food & Thanking Listeners
• [00:02:38.05]Don’t Text Your Dealer After He’s Busted
• [00:05:33.15]Tickling the Dragon
• [00:10:51.17]Emma Sponsorship Mention
• [00:11:32.04]Airline Story #1 – Toddlers
• [00:14:22.02]Airline Story #2 – Parents
• [00:15:17.25]Closed Caption Video
• [00:20:58.05]Ad Blocker Records
• [00:21:55.05]Emma Sponsorship Mention
• [00:22:39.02]Cadillac Coffee for Millennials
• [00:27:48.13]What noise destroys Alison’s chill?
• [00:29:16.20]Listener Question: How do you explain social media measurements?
• And so much more…

Tweet This

We’re not perfect, but at least we’re not on Google+.

Powered By the Tweet This Plugin

Tweet This

Pop Quiz: Which airlines are we calling out in this week’s episode?

Powered By the Tweet This Plugin

Tweet This

85% of people aren’t watching videos all the way through.

Powered By the Tweet This Plugin

Tweet This

Video views are the new vanity metric.

Powered By the Tweet This Plugin

Tweet This

Can coffee make you want to buy a Cadillac?

Powered By the Tweet This Plugin

Tweet This

Items Mentioned In This Episode

• “Unlearn All Your Bad Marketing Habits With These 3 Secrets” [That we took without permission and you can only get by giving us your email address. Ed.]
• Air Canada Backs Down On $40 Fee To Seat Child With Parent
• Qantas Frequent Flyer Scheme for New Parents
• Cadillac Wants To Attract Millennials Somehow, Opens A Coffee Shop

from UnMarketing http://bit.ly/1XE6UuN
via IFTTT

#125: 360 Degrees of Unpodcast

Subscribe on iTunes
Google Play

Emma, Official Sponsor of the UnPodcast

In this episode of the UnPodcast, we discuss the 360 Degree VR Experience that’s sweeping the planet and what, if any, use it can be for your brand’s marketing. Also, we highlight some virtual (see what we did there?) gems in dumbery from the likes of movie theatres, marketing conference demos, and even low-cost airlines.

Video

Audio

Other topics include:

• [00:00:00.00]Emma Sponsorship Mention
• [00:00:32.18]360 Degrees of UnPodcast
• [00:01:54.16]Emma Sponsorship mention
• [00:02:33.12]Virtually Augmented Reality… Who Cares?
• [00:08:21.21]A Working Example
• [00:10:35.25]6×9 Solitary Confinement
• [00:12:15.28]Answering the “Why?”
• [00:13:34.27]Emma Sponsorship mention
• [00:14:09.12]Faux Personalization
• [00:16:11.04]Listener Question: Why are great marketing events so expensive to attend?
• [00:25:39.10]Stop Pirating Tweets
• [00:28:31.11]Emma Sponsorship mention
• [00:29:00.14]No Allegiance for Allegiant
• And so much more…

Tweet This

I look phenomenal in 4K!

Powered By the Tweet This Plugin

Tweet This

Why are great marketing events so expensive? Here’s why.

Powered By the Tweet This Plugin

Tweet This

Price is #Perception.

Powered By the Tweet This Plugin

Tweet This

There are different price points for content. Find what works for you.

Powered By the Tweet This Plugin

Tweet This

Items Mentioned In This Episode

• 6×9: A Virtual Experience of Solitary Confinement
• Faux Personalization
• U.K.’s ODEON theatres steals Toronto comic’s joke on Twitter

from UnMarketing http://bit.ly/1Xg052f
via IFTTT