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Out of the Ordinary!
What catches your attention most when you go around shopping malls or supermarkets. Most of the time its the ones that are out of this world or the unusual ones. Most products produced are packaged or designed to be unusual just serve that purpose, gets you to stop and look. Found some neat ones ...
How To Use Social Media for Business Simple Steps
People go to social media to sell their product. They bombard their followers, or readers with tons of commercials and sales pitch. But you won't make money on Social Media. That is not the point. What one must do is create relationships so that your customers will know you better and see that t ...
Hardcover Books augmented with iPhone? Is this Possible?
Want to curl up with a good book on your iPhone? Well how about that book's companion iPhone app then, or maybe an enhanced iPhone edition of the story itself, complete with audio, video and text all for the price of a hardcover? Welcome to the new world order of books where iPhones are reinventing ...
Measure Social Media | ROI
You always see the word ROI or Return on Investment on articles, and on twitter. You always read about measuring your involvement or for some business measuring social media investments for their respective brands. Now for social media, ROI stands for Return on Influence. Is measuring social medi ...
Social Media Blues
Everyone now is involved in Social Media. People have been very creative in making sure that everyone understands what it is all about. It can be in the form of comic strips, blog posts, reviews and even applications. Here is a video that was primarily made for Social media and its impact and in ...
Bold Anti-Smoking ads
Gone are the days of the sexy Marlboro Man, who made smoking appealing, manly and part of the cowboy way. Tobacco advertising is one of the most highly regulated forms of marketing today. Canada is one of the leading anti-smoking advertisers in the world, compared to some of the middle eastern coun ...
Stop Fast-Forwarding!
I was recently watching Heroes on NBC (one of my favorite prime-time adventures) when suddenly I shouted to my wife (who controls the remote) "stop fast forwarding!"
In my house we DVR everything. The time when most families are comfortable on the couch watching prime-time TV is usually the same ...
Branding Yourself Through Twitter Backgrounds
For those active on Twitter, one way to make sure that you stand out is via your avatar and your Twitter Background. Your Twitter Background is the first image they will see when they view your profile and can be their source of information in deciding whether to follow you or not. And here is a s ...
Did You Know 4.0?
As in an early post by Diana 10 Signs: Change Is Happening in Your Life, the message was that the only true constant thing now is change. The way we live then is very different in the way we live and do things now. More importantly, the way we communicate and get all our information and connect ha ...
9 Things to Avoid When Accepting an Award
As my first post here on bitrebels.com, I'd like to take the stage and say a few words:
"Thank you so much! I always dreamed about what it would be like to write for Bitrebels.com someday, but I never actually thought it would happen. I write about printing, marketing, and design, so thank you so ...
The Man Behind @Mashable
On Twitter, one of the most Re Tweeted on social media news and information is the ones that are tweeted by @mashable . But have you ever wondered who is the guy behind @mashable? Well, he is Pete Cashmore. Working as a web technology consultant in mid 2005, Pete Cashmore founded Mashable from an ...
Paper Craft – Twitter, FailWhale, Steve Jobs etc.
Paper is one very flexible material when it comes to creating fun designs. Papercraft has grown to become a great hobby. So many fascinating things one can create. Just check out some of the cool finds that I was able to dig up for our bitrebels fans. Fail Whale, Colorful Bird, Twitter Bird, ...
HOW TO: Develop into a Leader on Twitter
A tweet from @GuyKawasaki last week included a link to a Forbes magazine article with this quote: "Leaders are increasingly thinking of how they can build the strengths of their teams." Real Twitter leaders are also constantly thinking of how they can build the strengths of their team (also called f ...
iJustine: From Geek to Internet Celebrity
Forget going from rags to riches, the hot story these days is going from geek to internet celebrity.
Justine Ezarik, a 25-year-old video blogger and marketing genius living in Los Angeles, has successfully catapulted herself into internet celebrity status by using her geekness to stay on the cutt ...
Its Big Mac time
McDonald's Marketing has been relentless and, looking back, hilarious over time, cross-marketing not only in all media, but all countries and all ages. I can't imagine anyone being oblivious to McDonald's existence. With over 30,000 restaurants (mostly franchises) in more than 119 countries, servin ...