Blue Redbox box – Brilliance or Bad Marketing

Walmart now has blue Redbox boxes – seriously. So the question is of course WHY? What is the reason that they switched away from the basic red box?

They are mostly located at Wal-mart Supercenters, but the boxes are not red like everywhere else, they are blue.

My first guess was maybe that Redbox was making some crazy decisions about focusing more on Blueray and the blue was a wordplay off of that. But after investigating, it appears that Wal-mart had it changed to blend in better and match their corporate colors.

There are other rumors about the color change, like other companies actually taking Redbox headers and applying them to their own boxes. Or stories like Redbox thinking Blockbusters boxes are nicer looking so they are testing a change in colors.

If Redbox does in deed change all of their colors to anything other than red, it would be a crazy move and would be insane. One of the things they have achieved is that people are forwarding and texting pictures of the blue redboxes. That has to be valuable marketing and exposure.

Have you seen any blue redboxes anywhere other than walmart?

 

It is a bad marketing move to disaccosiate one of the primary branding methods that the whole company is revolved around? After all it tells people what to look for, and they have created something that now everyone in the country knows and most people have used and enjoyed. The cost saving came at a super time. People were tired of paying the high prices at Blockbuster and the other brick and mortar video rental outlets and redbox cashed in.

Can Redbox keep up with Cloud computing no matter what color their boxes are? What happens when Amazon offers movies to download or Netflix has movies online? What if these companies can develop a way to actually distribute new releases streaming or download and people don’t have a need to go get physical media?

Hopefully Redbox will keep ahead of the game and figure out how the market wants to use media and it wouldn’t surprise me if they come out with memberships and online access.

 

 

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Understanding Statistics – presidential budget cut

Understanding statistics can be a tricky thing. Also, when we hear big numbers we have a hard time connecting or visualizing what they really mean. This clip takes the mystery out of the big numbers and uses a method that we can all understand to explain how statistics can be used in politics to get us to believe action is being taken, when there virtually is none.

 

As soon as we understand the basic math and the amount of zeros that are being worked with, it makes it incredibly clear that we did not really understand what was being said. We heard big numbers and even bigger numbers, but they really didn’t sink in until now. Now there’s some outrage. Not only at the politicians who are doing this, but even at ourselves for not really understanding what is happening.

 

 

GINORMAsaurus Tags: politics, math, obama, president, budget cut, statistics, object lesson, illustration

Extremely Creative Home Based Business Ideas

Here are some really crazy home based business ideas from an intense brain storming session.  We came up with 133 non-traditional ideas that you can take and use to make some money from home. Some of them are really small and designed to give just a little bit of a an income boost. Others are designed so that you could quit your day job and focus on something from home. Even if you are unemployed, then these home based business ideas are right up your alley.

 

1000 Home Business Ideas – OK, not really 1,000 – just 133

1. Homemade tea
2. Grow make soap
3. Crème soda
4. Breed dogs
5. Write book
6. Editor
7. Book unusual recipes
8. Home cooking
9. Mold figurines
10. Crafts
11. Necklaces
12. Playground equipment
13. Stained glass
14. Recycle glass into wind chimes
15. Pottery
16. Tutoring
17. Lawn and landscaping
18. Babysitting
19. Knit
20. Sew
21. Mend
22. Ironing
23. Organic home remedies
24. House cleaning
25. Laundry
26. Pet sitting
27. Animal grooming
28. CD music lessons
29. Designated driver
30. Doll houses and furniture
31. Simply roses
32. Baskets
33. Cookie mix in a jar
34. Quilts
35. Weave reeds
36. Make ink
37. Cut braid style hair
38. Dried herbs
39. Organic make up
40. Goat cheese
41. House painting
42. Kangaroo court
43. Only child experience a family
44. Foster care
45. Respite care
46. Hippo therapy
47. Bees
48. Gluten free bakery
49. Companion service
50. Greeting cards
51. Roasting coffee
52. Lavender water
53. Micro heating bags
54. Truck produce to Midwest
55. Wild rice to SC
56. Candy
57. Candles
58. Sheep
59. Yarn
60. Homeless care packages
61. Chickens eggs
62. Compost
63. Gray water conversion
64. Kid seminars
65. Art contest
66. Raffle
67. Decorating
68. Family game night
69. Activity center
70. Calligraphy
71. Photography
72. Xmas cookies
73. Ice cream social
74. Corner bio diesel
75. Eco pimp
76. Car washes
77. Dumpster diving salvage
78. Whoopee cushions
79. Scrap booking parties
80. Sell this list
81. Demo DVDs
82. Family DJ
83. Mascots
84. Clown
85. Mystery shopper
86. Mystery sleeper
87. Grocery delivery
88. My girl Thursday
89. Research
90. Virtual assistant
91. Movie critic
92. Music critic
93. Teach kid dancing
94. Barn dance
95. Home made popcorn
96. Crop sharing gardens
97. PI
98. Scan pics to digi album
99. Renaissance clothing
100. Movie extra
101. Tea parties
102. Listening café
103. Framing mounting
104. Homemade tofu
105. House blessing
106. Holiday decorating
107. Hats
108. Bird houses
109. X country camper delivery
110. Spices
111. Farmers markets
112. Chimney sweep
113. Vending machines
114. Simple living magazine
115. Acting troop
116. Puppet shows
117. Christian gypsy tour
118. KOA work
119. Migrant work
120. Revive Mystery Space Theater 3000
121. Cell phone play by play
122. Mosquito counting
123. Swim lessons
124. Day camp
125. Collect recycling
126. Edible games (scrabble)
127. Singing telegrams
128. Balloons
129. Bean bag chairs
130. Make calendars
131. Web designs
132. Yard vases
133. Foreign exchange student

You want to add some more… Please!

 

GINORMAsaurus Tags: home based business, creative business ideas

Small Business Marketing In a Small Community

Here are some quick helpful hints provided by Starmaker Marketing that will help you market better when you are in a small community.

1. Present your self as an expert

You can write a newspaper column, publish a newsletter and offer community classes that will help portray you as an expert. Being an expert in your particular field will help you offer great advice to your clients.

2. Consistent Marketing & Presence

In a small town, rumors fly and when you cancel an ad in a newspaper or flier, people notice and when you make a change. keep your advertising very consistent and don’t make too many rapid changes. If you start investing in a media, make sure you can maintain it.

3. Participation in Community Events

Participate in all kinds of community events. Small communities often have parades, fairs and many other community activities that every business should participate and get involved in.

4. High Value on established Name & reputation

Even more so than in a big city, your name and reputation is your life blood. In a big city, there are almost always new prospects you can reach, so when you don’t maintain your name and reputation, it is simpler to stay in business. In a small community it doesn’t work that way. The prospects are

5. Planned Word of Mouth

Everywhere you are doing marketing, you need positive word of mouth. It is not as random as it may appear. Some people feel that word of mouth is just what happens when a customer talks about the great experiences they have had. But really you need to give them talking points so they have something beneficial to talk about. Consult your marketing firm about ways you can contribute and instigate the word of mouth for your business.

 

 

GINORMAsaurus Tags: small business, marketing, advertising, community, parade

Commission Hijack Review – Top Clickbank programs

Commission Hijack is currently one of the most popular Clickbank programs available. People are promoting it, buying it and using it and it’s the hot ticket right now.  It is being promoted as a low risk, low work opportunity that is both simple to use and simple to earn money from. No articles to write, no facebook Ads to promote or fanpages to make and manage, no complicated SEO, no google adwords and no ppc, ppv or cpa. Anything one can do to avoid bowing to the google empire, it a good thing. If you can find a system that does not include using all of their options and instead making a much more streamlined approach you’re ahead of the game.

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Check out these income shots:

 

And anytime you can show a vague chart that doesn’t really mean anything, but looks like people are making money and send a more subtle.

Online Business Opportunity Marketing Programs Reviewed

Here are some of the products reviewed: Do your research before investing in any online business, and find the one that is best fit for you and makes the most sense based on your needs.

Product Name	Type of Business	Price
1. “BASW”	Buying And Selling Websites	Gold Membership $297
2. Kevin Trudeau	Home Based Business Site	Discounted to $347
3. Simple Sites Big Profits	MLMWEAPONS	$797 or special financing options
4. Sky High Auctions	Making Money from Ebay Sales	Reduced to $267

 

1. Buying & Selling Websites “BASW” from buyingandsellingwebsites.com

Buying & Selling Websites has 3 different membership programs that they mention, however then the actual promoted membership level is the gold membership which is priced at $297.

They have letters of recommendation from all over the world. It’s hard to know if letters like that are legitimate or not, although these seem to hit the mark.

The program will teach you how to builds sites, which products to promote and sell as well as many other tips about the process of starting an online business. Sharing information on Product Sites, Affiliate Sites, and Membership/Content Sites.  There’s some good free advice about selling your websites on the promotional pages. Don’t forget to take advantage of the information that is being offered.

 

2. Kevin Trudeau’s Home Bases Business

Learn how to master the art of influence, build your business beyond belief, avoid the top 3 mistakes in Network Marketing and quit your day job in a year!

 

3. simple sites big profits

Now Paying $150 Plus $50 Per Month Commissions! Killer Conversion Rate And Tons Of Affiliate Tools. Free Videos Reveal The Secrets! Your Students Will Learn how you can make simple little websites for big profits. Check out the methods offered by “Simple Sites Big Profits” and see if you can use this format to start earning a generous amount of commissions each and every month on their program.

4. Sky High Auctions

From Sky High Auctions, you can learn as the teach you from 15 Ebay PowerSellers How They Raked In Over $11,726,200 Last Year Alone And How You Can Explode Your Business Following Their Every Move Using Our Step By Step Course.  AND for those of you who already own an online business, you'll discover how to use the power of eBay to rake in piles of hot leads to your websites! If you are already selling on ebay you’ll learn lots more tips and tricks. If you want to get started and do it right, sky high auctions can help you avoid pitfalls that others normally make.

 

 

GINORMAsaurus Tags: small business, micro business, mlm, ebay, home based business, kevin trudeau, website auctions, online marketing