**WHAT HAPPENS…WHEN YOU FIND A DRAFT OF A BLOG POST YOU MEANT TO POST ALMOST A YEAR AGO? Well, you adjust the content a bit and post it now!**
Almost a year ago (yes, once again, I just found this
I’m sure by now, you’ve seen the memes (no, I’m not sharing any of them in this post). Yes, yes, the first time I saw one, it may have elicited a smirk from me, too, but as with most viral
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“I’m so glad that I live in a world where there are Octobers,” wrote L.M. Montgomery in Anne of Green Gables (incidentally, one of my favorite authors talking about my favorite month in one of my favorite books) —
PUMPKIN SPICE LATTES AND YOU
A Lesson in Marketing
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OMG…once again, Pumpkin Spice Everything is EVERYWHERE (yuck). There seem to be two distinct Pumpkin Spice camps: those who love it and live for it and those who cannot
I briefly touched on nostalgia marketing as one of the big reasons Starbucks’ Pumpkin Spice Latte (and loads of other pumpkin-themed products) have become all the rage of late (and oh yippie — it’s that time of year again). Researchers
CONFESSION: I am, at best, a sporadic Instagram user. I occasionally open the app, scroll through and look at friends’ photos (many of which are exactly the same ones I see on their Facebook profiles, because auto-posting to both accounts
As part of my August Gives Back series and in honor of National Purple Heart Day, Day 7 is giving back with gratitude to our military.
There are several organizations that assist with helping you to get letters of greeting
No one is going to read this blog post.
No one is going to read it, and yet here I am writing it. Researching. Satisfying a personal curiosity, something I’ve pondered over and over, and putting my thoughts down for someone
BIRTHDAYS, SOCIAL OBJECTS, and MARKETING
Oh, My!
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August is my birthday month; my parents call it the “Month of Maura” (I think there’s some snark in that moniker, but I choose to ignore it). I spent last month working
A few years ago, for my 40th birthday (yep, just gave away my age!) I donated my birthday month to a local animal rescue and asked that my friends make donations, which we then matched. It was a GREAT way