marketing directory

The Cynic’s Marketing Directory or what marketing terms really mean

Here are some gems for a real world marketing directory. Content calendar What we’ll do if everything works perfectly, you pay on time and nobody has a day off.   Content. Lorem ipsum Polyfilla to anyone except the harmless drudge who has to write it.   Best Practice. What everyone else pretends to do. Or, […]

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bra size discount Chinese Restaurant

Ick or slick marketing? Chinese restaurant offers bra size discounts

A Chinese restaurant has gotten in trouble for offering discounts based on bra size. The Qianjiang Evening Post reports local complaints about the above poster for the Trendy Shrimp restaurant. One complaint said it was “vulgar advertising” and “discriminatory towards women”. The posters have already been removed. Trendy Shrimp general manager Lan Shenggang tells it straight […]

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craft beer named by AI

An AI beats humans at naming craft beer

A neural network system has learned to name craft beer from a huge dataset extracted from BeerAdvocate.com.   Credit: Lewis and Quark   Researcher and electrical engineer Janelle Shane has already trained AI to name kittens, metal bands, Pokemon, paint colors, and more. The AI-generated craft beer names vary from likely, to weirdly impressive, to bet-level […]

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