This company came in tonight for dinner at the restaurant I work at and I had the pleasure of serving them. They were overly generous in their tip and made my evening, over all, enjoyable. I wanted to give a blurb out - to everyone in San Antonio area - if you need new tires, wheels, etc - check ‘em out ….

http://www.straightwheels.com/

Wheel Fix It is the name of the company and the owner is just about the nicest business man I’ve met in a long time. I may even run an ad for them on my site - just for fun. Hee hee… like that will do them any good…

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Related MadSilence post: Making my list…checking it twice 

~TAB

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Just went to see Sweeney Todd. It was a great adaptation of the original musical… Tim Burton brought something to the show that I didn’t quite get from the Patty LuPone revival: ambiance. A sense of time and place. So amazingly visual, which didn’t hurt for such a bloodbath.

As my friend and I left, the only question I had on my mind was, “why didn’t the studio do a tie-in with Hot Pockets?” Like… free tickets… or a special “Human” flavor. Yum.

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There’s an old saying in the field of project management that goes something like this:  There are three variables — time, resources, and scope — and you can only control two of them.  (At least I think that’s how it goes; I’m getting older, and memory is the second thing to go. )  You can define the scope of the project and when it needs to finish; that will determine how many resources must be committed to it.  Or you can define the resources available and the scope of the project, which will determine when it will be completed.  Or you can define the resources available and when it must be completed, which will determine the scope (how much you can accomplish).

It’s an incredibly trite observation (triggered by an experience the other day), but we have similar trade offs in the world of P4P.

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Sorry folks I’ve been busy partying.

Last Friday I played poker so went with my poker face on.

Last week I was at the Edinburgh Leisure bash. I copied Pete’s “sticking beer caps on your head” trick.

But he’s much better at it.

And he’s even better at the Spock trick…

Tuesday was the SEX Party (Self Employed Xmas). We got the papparazi along.

Last night was 60 Watt’s do.

I work with these people!

But I was still thinking Hard.

Is it any wonder I’m cream crackered?

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I think I have to disagree…

Ok, maybe it’s irony.

Maybe, schmaybe.

I think not…

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I noticed recently that “Googling” the movie “Gone Baby Gone” brought up two pay-per-click ads - one from Moviefon and another from Miramax. The landing page for Moviefon brings you to a review of the movie along with show-times in your local area, which makes sense since it is a destination site and they are generating money by arbitraging the eyeballs they collect into visitors for their banner ads and clicks for the local theatres.

But the landing page for the Miramax ads brings you to a page that displays the other award-winning movies that are potential Oscar candidates, including “No Country for Old Men.” The message on this page isn’t so much as to see the movie, but to be convinced that these movies should win awards. Clearly, Miramax is looking to spread some PR about how their line-up of movies should get Oscar nods this year by displaying pay-per-click ads.

Who said that corporate America wasn’t looking at pay-per-click ads as a way of spreading their brand messaging?

Here is what the landing page looks like when you click on the PPC campaign.

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Country Crock has teamed up with HD Greetings to deliver a simple message: spread the joy during the holidays by sending a custom video ecard and share a story to feed a family. For each story shared on Country Crock’s website, they donate a meal to Second Harvest. The ecard includes a pan around a stylized 3D hearth into which you can upload your own picture, choose your own music and play a message from Amy Grant supporting the cause. Take five minutes to make the holiday brighter for someone you don’t know.

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