Tourneau Plugs Omega De Ville On TV: Next Watch Commercial Sighting

As predicted previously during my discussion of the Seiko Coutura watch commercial, it was predicted that more watch commercials would appear in this new wave of watch advertising. There is nothing inherently interesting about a product being advertised on television, but in the case of watches, it is a form of advertising rare of unheard [...]

Sharing Your Mind: RSS Blog Syndication For The Willing

People blog for a number of reasons, mostly to get their ideas out there. One takes the time and effort to share their thoughts and information in the hopes that they will attract an interested audience. The vast majority of blogs on the internet have a very limited audience. The reason for this is that [...]

Seiko Coutura Watch On TV: Watch Advertising Hits The Mainstream

For a long time in the US, watch Advertising was limited to spots in the Wall Street Journal and financial or business magazines (not to mention the limited number of watch magazines such as WatchTime, Revolution, International Watch, and others). Rolex was the king of the advertising heap, but you weren’t about to a Rolex [...]

Virtual World Marketing: Hublot Watches Establishes Itself On Second Life

In what seems a strange marketing decision, Hublot Watches with its new French captain, has sailed in to the waters of Second Life and purchased a virtual island there. For those of you now keen on all that is virtual, Second Life is a well established virtual world. Not quite a game, not quite a [...]

SEO Tip For All Websites And Bloggers: State The Obvious, Again And Again

For those of you who don’t live and breathe by the term SEO, it stands for Search Engine Optimization, or otherwise, the tactics used to make your website appear higher on search engine result pages. SEO methods can be a bit of a mire, and there are endless “services” out there that claim to help. [...]

More Watch Reviews! Demand What You Need To Make Watch Purchase Decisions

By far most watch reviews you will find today are provided by dedicated watch enthusiasts who purchase, then subsequently post images and reviews of the watches they purchase online. Usually these reviews are placed on forums or dedicated user submission websites. Then you have the professional reviews that you will find in watch magazines. More [...]

My Gift Giving Theory: Not What They Want, But What You Want Them To Have

The gift giving season is upon us, and at least for myself, the biggest issue is always, “what should I get ____?!” Of course, the commercialized nature of the season imbibes us with the notion that our paramount motivation for the next few monthsis ardently selecting those gifts that, “they will remember/will mean something to [...]

P.E.A.R On Notice! Apple Zealots Stalinize European Media When “Monopoly” Mentioned

P.E.A.R (People Enraged by Apple Relations) wants you to be aware of this! Watch this video of a Benjamin Cohen, a correspondent from UK broadcaster Channel 4 in the UK interviewing Apple Senior Vice President of Worldwide Product Marketing Phil Schiller. After you watch it, keep reading this article.Disturbing? That is really the term that [...]

Use Technorati To Claim Blog Ownership

Have a blog you manage or write online? Don’t like the idea of other people posing as you? It could happen. You need to claim your identity, and ownership of your online property. Your blog belongs to you. Technorati had a great tool which you can use to claim your blog against all other people. [...]

You Use eBay Right? If Not You Are Missing Out.

If you are a watch enthusiast or any other type of consumer who does not use eBay, you are tragically missing out on a world of available items and rare finds. Think about what eBay is. Essentially it creates a market for many types of goods which would otherwise sit in someone’s house. It is [...]

Bringing The eBay Experience Closer: New Custom Dynamic Live Listing At ablogtoread.com

It isn’t news that I love eBay. But it is more than just a personal obsession that brings eBay to ablogtoread.com. For a long time I had a dream. How could I share with everyone the watches I love and recommend watches in one easy automated place? Well, I finally figured it out. Check out [...]

Branding In The Digital Age: Difficult When The World Is Your Community

Choosing a name for a business or logo these days is very difficult. In fact, coming up with good brandable names has always been difficult. One needs to come up with a strong term which is suggestive of the product or service without being too limiting. The process is fulfilling, but more tedious that it [...]

P.E.A.R - People Enraged by Apple Relations: The New Word In the Anti-Apple Arsenal and Apple’s New iPhone Sales Policy

I am coining the acronym P.E.A.R (People Enraged by Apple Relations). Not just because Pears make a decent alternative to apples, but because mobilization and group think is an important part of rebelling against an evil empire. I think anti-Apple thinkers aren’t organized because our disdain of their policies and products is usually pretty obvious [...]

Blogging For Self Promotion

Blogging basically started as a way share your digital diary with…, well anyone. The concept seemed a bit “trendy” at first. One of those, “using the power of the internet” to allow the lay person to distribute their ideas. The fear was that legions of untalented, bad writers would flood the net with uninteresting, or [...]

Maligned Marketing: Apple Tactics

As a product enthusiast I tend to have very strong opinions regarding how a company presents itself. Marketing and sales tactics, while not necessarily consumer friendly conversation is one of the most important parts of doing business. We have all had good and bad experiences with a company, for no business is perfect. However, when [...]

Affiliate Marketing, Watch Shopping, and Design Knock-Offs

Affiliate marketing in a nut shell is when an site that sells a product pays a site that draws a customer to the product seller’s site. The two entities here are the advertiser (has product to sell), and the publisher (drives traffic). An enormous trend these days is recommendation based affiliate marketing. Essentially when a [...]

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