Connecting the Dots / An Agency Blog

If you’ve been seeing a lot of guys on one knee in your online travels as of late, I can assure you it’s not a springtime rush of romance that has a bunch of dudes proposing marriage. Instead, it’s romance of another kind, and it’s been drinking up the internet lately as last weeks meme. I’m talking about brosicingbros.com, the latest craze for bros on Facebook, Twitter, Tumblr, and just about every other digital channel that you can bro down on.
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The fight for domination over location-based marketing is on, with Foursquare, Google, Gowalla, Yelp, and now Facebook pushing aggressively into the space. And if they buy in (and they most definitely should), the real winners are sure to be small-to-medium sized business owners.

This is essentially big business creating opportunity for small business – or – tech companies looking to generate revenue from the incredibly long-tail of businesses that need to market themselves, but typically do very little of it. It’s a win/win all around.

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Guess who’s going to Kettle of Fish for dinner tomorrow? You guessed it, me! Well, at the time of this writing, me and 259 other tech savvy people. It’s all part of the buzz that’s surrounding the launch of Groupon in Vancouver earlier today. Groupon is a Chicago based website that negotiates discount deals that they can bring to a huge list of followers subscribing to the site via Groupon’s daily newsletter.

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Youtube users freaking out over the new iPhone 4G

Think about it. The story that’s still unfolding, even as I write this, has it all. Espionage (iPhone’s crazy security measures), romance (brand love on the part of the maniacs eating this stuff up), danger (dude might lose his job), disguises (3g disguised as 4g), and now, EXOTIC DESTINATIONS.

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Stimulant recently asked Engine Digital to submit 5 examples of random things that inspire us on a daily basis. The only caveat was that we couldn’t choose anything related to advertising in any way, shape or form. You wouldn’t think it would be that difficult but since almost everyone here at Engine lives and breathes advertising and nothing else the job ultimately fell on me. I’m a well-rounded guy and frequently have conversations that have absolutely nothing to do with advertising of any kind so I thought it would be a fun little project. But you know the old adage about assumptions right?
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