There was a time when Clear Channel Communications ruled the world. It was a mega media company, wheeling and dealing through almost every part of the music business, from radio stations to streaming services to ticket sales and artist management at one time or another. Remember when it famously crushed the Dixie Chicks insurrection of 2003 under its… Read more »
Author: Jay Mindeman
Jay Mindeman is the award winning creative director at Anchor Marketing. He is responsible for writing a good portion of the content that the agency produces. He also oversees graphic design and web development. In addition to his work at Anchor, Jay teaches communication at North Dakota's largest university.
We’ve seen the death of old school print journalism coming for a while now. The mobile web has created a society of citizen journalists, and now that we can write and shoot the news ourselves (“Officer, could you be a dear and tase him again under the streetlight? The shadows on that last take were awful.”),… Read more »
Ever hear of Flow magazine? Maybe it’s not ringing a bell. But if you use Facebook, you may recall seeing posts like “The 6 cancer causers in your home you need to get rid of!” or “The most common form of stress these days is dealing with fake people who can’t be trusted” or the… Read more »
Throughout my life, I have learned humility the old-fashioned way: by being humiliated. I was an OK high school basketball player. I wasn’t good, but I wasn’t terrible, either (though I still recall overhearing my coach telling someone that I “was convinced that I was Magic Johnson.” It wasn’t meant as a compliment). I was a… Read more »
I love Tom Cruise movies. With the exception of Cocktail (too goofy), A Few Good Men (too boring), Interview With the Vampire (too many blouses), Born On The Fourth of July (too much acting) and Days of Thunder (too much NASCAR), I’ll watch almost anything he has done and enjoy it. I especially like his action… Read more »
The answer to a single question has been the Holy Grail of marketing since the inception of the internet: “What if I could get the contact information of everyone who visits my website?” These would be incredibly valuable leads. After all, they already sought you out and spent time reading your information! These visitors are… Read more »
I recently switched vehicles, and for one challenging day I was forced to listen to good old terrestrial FM radio while I worked on changing over my XM subscription (not as easy as it should have been, by the way). I almost didn’t make it. All total I listened for about an hour that day as… Read more »
