“Country music has a perception problem,” states Judann Pollack in her article entitled “When Country Wasn’t Cool”, and there is nothing more true. People who don’t listen to country music think the songs are all about beer, trucks, and guns (I know I did during my own country music hiatus that lasted from around 2011 until earlier this year). So if that’s all country music…
With the release of the iPhone X last week, iPhone season is officially coming to a close. This year was arguably the most exciting iPhone release to date, due to Apple’s secretive production and announcement of three entirely new phones instead of just the anticipated 7s and new 8. Apple has released a new phone each year since its first release in 2007. If you’re…
Imagine this: it’s 2011 and I have just created the Twitter account I use today in 2017. Five years after Twitter’s creation in 2006, I was 15 years old. Needless to say, a lot has changed since then. As I’ve aged and moved up in the world, I have gone back and deleted many of my earliest, most embarrassing tweets. With that said, I can’t…
“HI HI!” began the most recent email from ban.do founder Jen Gotch. “So I feel like we’re good enough friends now . . .” she continued. I know, I’m the most special person ever to be getting such a kind, personal email from the founder of my favorite company, right? Well, yes and no. Yes, because I really am special to them. But no, because I’m not the only…
Suddenly there’s a silver lining to a very unfortunate situation, and its name is the Whopper. Burger King’s ‘Whopper’ has been the company’s main source of advertising fun for quite a while. Some of you may remember a campaign Burger King launched on Facebook in 2009 in which users had to delete 10 friends to receive a free Whopper. This was, in my opinion, an…
Every day I wake up craving a Salted Caramel Mocha. I know I can’t afford to give in to that craving and pay the $4 for it more than once or twice a month, especially when I drink it like it’s water (as in, it’s gone about a minute after the barista puts it in my hand). But it’s weird to think I suddenly can’t…
“There isn’t any significant difference between the various brands of whiskey, or cigarettes or beer. They are all about the same. And so are the cake mixes and the detergents, and the margarines… The manufacturer who dedicates his advertising to building the most sharply defined personality for his brand will get the largest share of the market at the highest profit.” – David Ogilvy “There isn’t…
Americans love to run. And by that, I don’t mean we’re all running marathons every chance we get. We’re running sprints to get from home to school to practice to work to bible study and back home again. We don’t have time to be worrying about your inefficiencies as a business when we only have 15 minutes to get across town and get a cup…
American Horror Story really brings out the best and the worst in me. There is always so much going on–so many things to see, so many thoughts to think, so many things to fire a person up. It was the most-watched hour of television on Wednesday nights for three weeks running, with more than 3 million people watching live each week. In other words, producers…
