VISIBLE RANKING — ONLINE MARKETING

Haven’t seen the first post “Fight for Kisses”? Check it out first!

Here’s more to inspire you to generate more funny marketing ideas.
When it comes to commercials, people often say “sex sells.” Well, I’m not sure how much sex helps boosting sales, but it’s surely being used a lot in commercials especially for beer as the one below.

Funny, unexpected idea / story line plus beautiful woman is really a good combination for a memorable [thus successful] commercial for beer.

Don’t speak the language. It’s ok…

Related post: Funny Marketing Idea - Funny Commercial 1

Create custom color palette / custom swatches palette in Photoshop
Updated for Photoshop CS4

Photoshop comes with many built-in color swatches palettes. However, more likely the colors in these palettes are not the ones you’re going to use. Without a custom color swatches palette, whenever you want to use your colors, usually you’ve got to manually enter the RGB or CMYK color values. That’s obviously not very efficient considering you may enter the wrong RGB or CMYK values. Thus, if you have certain color palettes that you use all the time, it’s recommended to create your own custom color palettes so that you can easily use them with Photoshop short-cut or the eye-dropper tool.

Planning to use something funny as the theme in your new ads or marketing campaign? Check out the video below.

I saw some crazily funny commercials here and there online and decided to open a couple of posts just for them. After all, fun is a great emotional button to push when you want your ad to stand out, to be remembered and to be talked about. If you’re looking for crazy, funny ideas for your ads, commercial or marketing campaign, hopefully this video and the ones coming up can give you some idea and inspiration. If not, the video is still helpful: it’ll give you a good laugh.

Step-by-step guide on how to create HTML email in Outlook 2003
Updated for MS Outlook 2007

Already know about the good, the bad, and the ugly of HTML through the post about HTML email overview, let’s start creating an HTML email in Outlook.

Quick notes about Outlook 2003 and Outlook 2007: the process below is the same for both Outlook 2003 and Outlook 2007. The difference between these two versions of Outlook is not in the process of creating and sending HTML email but in the built-in HTML email readers. Thus, there may be a bit difference if you create HTML for Outlook 2003 and Outlook 2007, but there won’t be any difference if you create HTML in or with Outlook 2003 and Outlook 2007.

Switching to HTML email? Know why people love and hate HTML enabled emails, and what can be done to have a smooth transition.

HTML email as its name implied is an email written or coded with HTML as opposed to a plain text email. There’s one thing that should be clarified before we go on: today, most emails are HTML emails; if you color or bold your text, insert images in your email, more likely you’re sending an HTML email. However, that’s not what is meant by “HTML email” or “HTML enabled email” in this article. So what do we mean by sending an HTML email? Roughly, we mean to send a web page or a well designed and well coded HTML page as an email.

Apply RGB colors / custom colors/ custom color palette to MS Excel charts and text.

Using consistent colors and color palette across different marketing tools and materials — ads, sale literature, web pages, spreadsheets and charts,… — are significantly important and beneficial. However, most of the time your business colors are not included inside Excel default color palette. If that’s the case, you’ll need to replace the default colors in Excel with your customized color palette. Here’s how:

Create a spreadsheet to hold your custom colors

• Ctrl N to create a new blank workbook

Create favicon — address bar icon, or bookmark icon for your blog, and website.
Updated for Photoshop CS4

This is to show you how to create and add your own favicon to your website or blog - including your Blogger/Blogspot, WordPress… The process is really simple and nearly the same for a website or a blog. You can create a favicon with Photoshop or with other tools. This post presents you with different options; you only need to use only ONE option: