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</description><title>The Marketing of Applesauce</title><generator>Tumblr (3.0; @themarketingofapplesauce)</generator><link>http://themarketingofapplesauce.tumblr.com/</link><item><title>Impressive social media stats visualized</title><description>&lt;iframe width="400" height="225"  id="youtube_iframe" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/sIFYPQjYhv8?feature=oembed&amp;enablejsapi=1&amp;origin=http://safe.txmblr.com&amp;wmode=opaque" frameborder="0" allowfullscreen&gt;&lt;/iframe&gt;&lt;br/&gt;&lt;br/&gt;&lt;p&gt;Impressive social media stats visualized&lt;/p&gt;</description><link>http://themarketingofapplesauce.tumblr.com/post/164125558</link><guid>http://themarketingofapplesauce.tumblr.com/post/164125558</guid><pubDate>Sun, 16 Aug 2009 14:29:34 +0200</pubDate></item><item><title>Augmented reality. Interesting technology!</title><description>&lt;iframe width="400" height="225"  id="youtube_iframe" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/b64_16K2e08?feature=oembed&amp;enablejsapi=1&amp;origin=http://safe.txmblr.com&amp;wmode=opaque" frameborder="0" allowfullscreen&gt;&lt;/iframe&gt;&lt;br/&gt;&lt;br/&gt;&lt;p&gt;Augmented reality. Interesting technology!&lt;/p&gt;</description><link>http://themarketingofapplesauce.tumblr.com/post/158483928</link><guid>http://themarketingofapplesauce.tumblr.com/post/158483928</guid><pubDate>Sat, 08 Aug 2009 11:12:39 +0200</pubDate></item><item><title>Hilarious ads (5)
I’ll take my infant medium well, thank...</title><description>&lt;img src="http://40.media.tumblr.com/8wTvZYdmjq9ir2ulC39eYbMPo1_500.jpg"/&gt;&lt;br/&gt;&lt;br/&gt;&lt;p&gt;Hilarious ads (5)&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;I’ll take my infant medium well, thank you.&lt;/p&gt;</description><link>http://themarketingofapplesauce.tumblr.com/post/147771462</link><guid>http://themarketingofapplesauce.tumblr.com/post/147771462</guid><pubDate>Thu, 23 Jul 2009 23:07:12 +0200</pubDate></item><item><title>Hilarious ads (4)
First rule of advertising. Coffins sell...</title><description>&lt;img src="http://40.media.tumblr.com/8wTvZYdmjq9ip7wuwp2yMBFPo1_500.jpg"/&gt;&lt;br/&gt;&lt;br/&gt;&lt;p&gt;Hilarious ads (4)&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;First rule of advertising. Coffins sell anything.&lt;/p&gt;</description><link>http://themarketingofapplesauce.tumblr.com/post/147770671</link><guid>http://themarketingofapplesauce.tumblr.com/post/147770671</guid><pubDate>Thu, 23 Jul 2009 23:05:00 +0200</pubDate></item><item><title>Hilarious ads (3)
Fly pedophilia airlines.</title><description>&lt;img src="http://41.media.tumblr.com/8wTvZYdmjq9inp8kDurfb9xmo1_500.jpg"/&gt;&lt;br/&gt;&lt;br/&gt;&lt;p&gt;Hilarious ads (3)&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;Fly pedophilia airlines.&lt;/p&gt;</description><link>http://themarketingofapplesauce.tumblr.com/post/147770072</link><guid>http://themarketingofapplesauce.tumblr.com/post/147770072</guid><pubDate>Thu, 23 Jul 2009 23:04:35 +0200</pubDate></item><item><title>Hilarious ads (2)
Hûh?!</title><description>&lt;img src="http://40.media.tumblr.com/8wTvZYdmjq9ilw7iY1uMnlquo1_500.jpg"/&gt;&lt;br/&gt;&lt;br/&gt;&lt;p&gt;Hilarious ads (2)&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;Hûh?!&lt;/p&gt;</description><link>http://themarketingofapplesauce.tumblr.com/post/147769019</link><guid>http://themarketingofapplesauce.tumblr.com/post/147769019</guid><pubDate>Thu, 23 Jul 2009 23:03:10 +0200</pubDate></item><item><title>Hilarious ads (part 1)
I don’t even know what to say about...</title><description>&lt;img src="http://41.media.tumblr.com/8wTvZYdmjq9ii2iwF4qCawsCo1_500.jpg"/&gt;&lt;br/&gt;&lt;br/&gt;&lt;p&gt;Hilarious ads (part 1)&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;I don’t even know what to say about this creepy sh*t!&lt;/p&gt;</description><link>http://themarketingofapplesauce.tumblr.com/post/147767364</link><guid>http://themarketingofapplesauce.tumblr.com/post/147767364</guid><pubDate>Thu, 23 Jul 2009 23:00:00 +0200</pubDate></item><item><title>Twitter humor</title><description>&lt;a href="http://9gag.com/gag/5614"&gt;Twitter humor&lt;/a&gt;</description><link>http://themarketingofapplesauce.tumblr.com/post/101387905</link><guid>http://themarketingofapplesauce.tumblr.com/post/101387905</guid><pubDate>Wed, 29 Apr 2009 10:30:24 +0200</pubDate></item><item><title>Create a buzz</title><description>&lt;h3&gt;Start Marketing Before You Have a Product&lt;/h3&gt;
&lt;ul&gt;&lt;li&gt;&lt;b&gt;Start blogging before you have a product.&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/li&gt;
&lt;li&gt;&lt;b&gt;Start engaging in social media before you have a product.&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/li&gt;
&lt;li&gt;&lt;b&gt;Start SEO before you have a product.&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/li&gt;
&lt;li&gt;&lt;b&gt;Start building your database and capturing leads before you have a product.&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/li&gt;
&lt;li&gt;&lt;b&gt;There is nothing stopping you, and it makes product launches easy.&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/li&gt;
&lt;/ul&gt;</description><link>http://themarketingofapplesauce.tumblr.com/post/75963127</link><guid>http://themarketingofapplesauce.tumblr.com/post/75963127</guid><pubDate>Thu, 05 Feb 2009 22:27:49 +0100</pubDate></item><item><title>Eight business technology trends to watch - The McKinsey Quarterly </title><description>&lt;a href="http://www.mckinseyquarterly.com/Business_Technology/Application_Management/Eight_business_technology_trends_to_watch_2080"&gt;Eight business technology trends to watch - The McKinsey Quarterly &lt;/a&gt;</description><link>http://themarketingofapplesauce.tumblr.com/post/75836299</link><guid>http://themarketingofapplesauce.tumblr.com/post/75836299</guid><pubDate>Thu, 05 Feb 2009 11:29:46 +0100</pubDate></item><item><title>Seth Godin’s advise for start ups during the recession:...</title><description>&lt;iframe width="400" height="300"  id="youtube_iframe" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/ETkDc8fjxK0?feature=oembed&amp;enablejsapi=1&amp;origin=http://safe.txmblr.com&amp;wmode=opaque" frameborder="0" allowfullscreen&gt;&lt;/iframe&gt;&lt;br/&gt;&lt;br/&gt;&lt;p&gt;Seth Godin’s advise for start ups during the recession: build value &amp; focus.&lt;/p&gt;</description><link>http://themarketingofapplesauce.tumblr.com/post/75674562</link><guid>http://themarketingofapplesauce.tumblr.com/post/75674562</guid><pubDate>Wed, 04 Feb 2009 21:28:00 +0100</pubDate></item><item><title>Recession proof: “Buy any new Hyundai and in the next year...</title><description>&lt;iframe width="400" height="225"  id="youtube_iframe" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/Rfpceiy_bxY?feature=oembed&amp;enablejsapi=1&amp;origin=http://safe.txmblr.com&amp;wmode=opaque" frameborder="0" allowfullscreen&gt;&lt;/iframe&gt;&lt;br/&gt;&lt;br/&gt;&lt;p&gt;Recession proof: “Buy any new Hyundai and in the next year if you lose your income, we’ll let you return it.”&lt;/p&gt;</description><link>http://themarketingofapplesauce.tumblr.com/post/74268471</link><guid>http://themarketingofapplesauce.tumblr.com/post/74268471</guid><pubDate>Fri, 30 Jan 2009 10:29:50 +0100</pubDate></item><item><title>New era brand mantra (Dalai Lama)</title><description>&lt;p&gt;” Everyday, think as you wake up, ‘today I am fortunate to have woken up, I am alive, I have a precious human life, I am not going to waste it. I am going to use all my energies to develop myself, to expand my heart out to others, to achieve enlightenment for the benefit of all beings, I am going to have kind thoughts towards others, I am not going to get angry or think badly about others, I am going to benefit others as much as I can.’ “&lt;/p&gt;</description><link>http://themarketingofapplesauce.tumblr.com/post/74005737</link><guid>http://themarketingofapplesauce.tumblr.com/post/74005737</guid><pubDate>Thu, 29 Jan 2009 11:30:32 +0100</pubDate></item><item><title>High Five</title><description>&lt;img src="http://40.media.tumblr.com/8wTvZYdmjj5xeyc3nNWVu1nPo1_400.jpg"/&gt;&lt;br/&gt;&lt;br/&gt;&lt;p&gt;High Five&lt;/p&gt;</description><link>http://themarketingofapplesauce.tumblr.com/post/73097543</link><guid>http://themarketingofapplesauce.tumblr.com/post/73097543</guid><pubDate>Mon, 26 Jan 2009 01:08:39 +0100</pubDate></item><item><title>Heineken - Walk in Closet Commercial. LMAO!</title><description>&lt;br/&gt;&lt;br/&gt;&lt;p&gt;Heineken - Walk in Closet Commercial. LMAO!&lt;/p&gt;</description><link>http://themarketingofapplesauce.tumblr.com/post/72819268</link><guid>http://themarketingofapplesauce.tumblr.com/post/72819268</guid><pubDate>Sat, 24 Jan 2009 17:53:27 +0100</pubDate></item><item><title>This says it all!</title><description>&lt;img src="http://41.media.tumblr.com/8wTvZYdmjiy7u4d8m8WzHd0Ko1_500.jpg"/&gt;&lt;br/&gt;&lt;br/&gt;&lt;p&gt;This says it all!&lt;/p&gt;</description><link>http://themarketingofapplesauce.tumblr.com/post/71803145</link><guid>http://themarketingofapplesauce.tumblr.com/post/71803145</guid><pubDate>Tue, 20 Jan 2009 15:38:00 +0100</pubDate></item><item><title>Devastating figures on brand trust. Ouch!</title><description>&lt;p&gt;&lt;img src="http://www.trendwatching.com/img/briefing/2009-02/t_blue1.gif" alt="1. Recession and consumer disgust" width="403" height="30"/&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;The current financial meltdown has led consumers to be &lt;b&gt;more disgusted than ever&lt;/b&gt; (if that’s even possible) with greedy corporate execs who just don’t care. Many in the corporate world are so far removed from what is now an immensely better informed, more opinionated consumer arena, that their (non-)communications, their (inter-)actions, their entire&lt;b&gt; behavior is deeply out of tune&lt;/b&gt; with what consumers want and expect in the years to come.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;This didn’t happen overnight of course. The financial crisis was just the straw that broke the camel&amp;rsquo;s back: consumers’ negative and raw emotions stem from too many brands who decided to &lt;b&gt;stop caring a long time ago&lt;/b&gt;. In most cases, this starts at the top, with share-price-obsessed execs not generous to (or caring for) their employees, who in turn stop giving a damn about actual customers*. &lt;br/&gt;&lt;br/&gt; Some fun (US) stats from &lt;a href="http://reputationgarage.blogspot.com/2008_10_01_archive.html" target="_blank"&gt;Reputation Garage&lt;/a&gt;:&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;ul class="nospace"&gt;&lt;li&gt;As few as 13% of all Americans place their trust in big business (and it&amp;rsquo;s not much higher for other mature consumer societies!).&lt;/li&gt;
&lt;li&gt;Only   39% of employees in a Watson Wyatt survey said they trusted senior   leadership.&lt;/li&gt;
&lt;li&gt;Some three-quarters of US consumers feel that companies don’t tell the truth in advertising.&lt;/li&gt;
&lt;li&gt;Three-quarters of   employees in big companies observed violations of the law or company standards   in a 12-month period.&lt;/li&gt;
&lt;/ul&gt;&lt;p&gt;source: trendwatching&lt;/p&gt;</description><link>http://themarketingofapplesauce.tumblr.com/post/71802037</link><guid>http://themarketingofapplesauce.tumblr.com/post/71802037</guid><pubDate>Tue, 20 Jan 2009 15:33:00 +0100</pubDate></item><item><title>The Air Force’s Rules of Engagement for Blogging</title><description>&lt;img src="http://33.media.tumblr.com/8wTvZYdmjiwkbgtwlmE1ObKso1_500.gif"/&gt;&lt;br/&gt;&lt;br/&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.globalnerdy.com/2008/12/30/the-air-forces-rules-of-engagement-for-blogging/comment-page-1/"&gt;The Air Force’s Rules of Engagement for Blogging&lt;br/&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;</description><link>http://themarketingofapplesauce.tumblr.com/post/71515441</link><guid>http://themarketingofapplesauce.tumblr.com/post/71515441</guid><pubDate>Mon, 19 Jan 2009 11:52:06 +0100</pubDate></item><item><title>Workflow Charts Finally Put to Good Use Show Fundamental Men vs...</title><description>&lt;img src="http://41.media.tumblr.com/8wTvZYdmjissh4kq1hzyDg5Go1_500.jpg"/&gt;&lt;br/&gt;&lt;br/&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href="http://i.gizmodo.com/5132786/workflow-charts-finally-put-to-good-use-show-fundamental-men-vs-women-differences"&gt;Workflow Charts Finally Put to Good Use Show Fundamental Men vs Women Differences&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;</description><link>http://themarketingofapplesauce.tumblr.com/post/70968523</link><guid>http://themarketingofapplesauce.tumblr.com/post/70968523</guid><pubDate>Fri, 16 Jan 2009 20:29:23 +0100</pubDate></item><item><title>via geekandpoke.typepad.com</title><description>&lt;img src="http://40.media.tumblr.com/8wTvZYdmjiskkoqi2llVgNrwo1_500.jpg"/&gt;&lt;br/&gt;&lt;br/&gt;&lt;p&gt;via &lt;a href="http://geekandpoke.typepad.com/geekandpoke/images/2007/08/11/ch71.jpg"&gt;geekandpoke.typepad.com&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;</description><link>http://themarketingofapplesauce.tumblr.com/post/70925602</link><guid>http://themarketingofapplesauce.tumblr.com/post/70925602</guid><pubDate>Fri, 16 Jan 2009 16:48:12 +0100</pubDate></item></channel></rss>
