Miss Teen South Carolina’s map…

Posted by Otis Kimzey on Aug 28, 2007 in Random | Comments Off

Came across this today and everyone who saw it enjoyed it. Thought I’d share it with a few more people.

Interesting choice of music…

Posted by Otis Kimzey on Aug 28, 2007 in Marketing, Seattle | Comments Off

I was at the sad sad Mariners game tonight.  KOMO 1000, one of the Mariners main sponsors ran a promo in between innings advertising a new online personality.  Nothing big right?  Well the background music for the promo was the instrumental version of Lady Sovereign’s hit song “Love Me or Hate Me.”  The words weren’t being played, but for the people who know the song, you have to see some irony in choosing the song.

The main chorus to the song states:

Love me or hate me that is the question.  If you love me then funk you.  If you hate me then [something that is similar to funk] you.

Wow, I guess KOMO really doesn’t like people who don’t listen to their station.

Fall begins tomorrow…

Posted by Otis Kimzey on Aug 27, 2007 in Marketing, Starbucks | Comments Off

At Starbucks at least. They will bringing back their annual very popular pumpkin spice lattes tomorrow morning. I can’t believe how early they are starting this, but I do know that it’s a very popular drink, that they try to keep around as long as possible without making it a staple drink.

If you want a real treat, try a grande chai with one pump of pumpkin spice in there. They usually won’t charge you extra for one pump, even if they do it’s worth it.

First Hawks game of the year.

Posted by Otis Kimzey on Aug 26, 2007 in local, Marketing, Seattle, Sports | Comments Off

I went to the Seahawks preseason game last night and had a great time.  Seattle won, no Hawks were injured, and no starters looked horrible, that’s about all you can hope for in a preseason game. 

It was fun to be back at Qwest and watching football in person.  One thing that I was looking at, from a business side that had nothing to do with football, was how the new Jones Soda partnership would be working out.  Something that I’ve never seen at a professional sports game before was sampling of the sodas that they sell inside the stadium.  Jones does have a long way to go to make people comfortable buying their drinks as opposed to the well known sodas typically found in a stadium.  I think it will take a little while for them to make people comfortable ordering a bright green, green apple soda, or a bright blue lemonade soda drink.  I hope that it goes well for them and spreads to them earning more business outside of the stadium as well. 

One unique observation that I heard at the game was, "They all taste like they would go well with alcohol, but not by themselves."  Hmmm, another possibility for a partnership Jones?

“South Africa and the Iraq everywhere like such as…”

Posted by Otis Kimzey on Aug 26, 2007 in Random | 1 comment

I don’t think I need to say anything, the video should speak for itself.