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When Marketers Stop Listening

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This is what happens when marketers focus on their perception of their own brilliance instead of listening to consumers.

H/T @ageekmom

HP Snapshot Diaries at Sundance

Susan Getgood from Marketing Roadmaps is working again this year with HP and helping them with a fun contest as part of their activities at the Sundance Film Festival.

You can read the Backstage at Sundance blog for inspiration.  The Snapshot Diaries contest offers winners the chance to have their snapshots turned into a mini movie along with a trip to the 2008 festival.

Even if you don't enter it's worth a look at HP's continuing social media efforts.  If you do enter, have fun and let me know if you win!

Meme Monday

Elisa asked, I deliver...

4 Jobs I've Had
1. Selling men's cologne at Macy's
2. Marketing Jell-O
3. Teaching Fellow at UCLA
4. Assistant at a day care center (1st job)

4 Movies I can watch over and over
1. Apocalypse Now (the horror...)
2. This is Spinal Tap (it's one louder)
3. The Wizard of Oz (you've always had the power)
4. Passenger 57 (C'mon - they get off the hijacked plane, have a chase with a motorcycle through a carnival, get back on the plane and take off again.  Plus, "Always bet on black."  How can you ever get tired of seeing that?)

4 TV shows I love(d) to watch
1. Buffy the Vampire Slayer
2. Homicide: Life on the Street
3. Lost
4. The Partridge Family

4 Places I've been on vacation
1. Hawaii
2. London
3. Woodstock, VT
4. Montreal

4 Favorite dishes
1. Miso Cod at Nobu
2. Seared Tuna
3. Double Double at In-N-Out Burger
4. My grandmother's lemon cheese (curd)

4 Websites I visit daily
1. Google
2. My Yahoo!
3. Blogher
4. Lifehacker

4 Places I'd rather be
1. Hawaii
2. Visiting friends or family
3. In Lincoln, NE picking up the $365 million Powerball check
4. Right here, right now

4 Bloggers I'm tagging
1. None
2. I'm pretty far down the blogging long tail so just about everyone else I know has done this already.
3. I learned my lesson with tagging bloggers I don't know with memes - if you don't know someone and don't know that they don't do memes, they may never speak to you if you try to get to know them by tagging them with a meme.
4. I encourage you to explore my blogroll and I'm sure you'll find several interesting answers to these questions.