Saturday, March 14th at 01:00 PM PRESENTERS * Christina Wodtke - Boxes and Arrows DESCRIPTION Information Architecture: Blueprints for the Web, Second Edition introduces the core concepts of information architecture: organizing web site content so that it can...
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SXSW: Curating the Crowd-Sourced World
by Monique Sherrett | Mar 14, 2009 | Events
Saturday, March 14th at 11:30 AM PRESENTERS * Jen Bekman - Jen Bekman Projects | 20x200 * Paddy Johnson - Art Fag City * Nion McEvoy - Chronicle Books * Dustin Hostetler - skinnyCorp * Gina Trapani - Lifehacker.com DESCRIPTION With...
SXSW: Everything You Know About Web Design Is Wrong
by Monique Sherrett | Mar 13, 2009 | Events
Boxcar Marketing is in Austin for SXSW. 02:00 PM Everything You Know About Web Design Is Wrong * Dan Willis - Sapient DESCRIPTION Just as early filmmakers struggled to break free from the conventions of live theater, after 10+ years Web designers are still trapped in...
5 Online Tips for Weathering the Economic Crisis
by Monique Sherrett | Feb 4, 2009 | Harebrained Ideas
According to MarketingCharts.com, Agency Clients Slash Budgets 20% or More, Digital Only Bright Spot. Digital is always the bright spot! It is not just agencies that are slashing budgets. Companies large and small are looking for ways to scale back costs and increase...
Show Us Your Balls (and we mean that in the politest of ways)
by Monique Sherrett | Feb 4, 2009 | Events, Monique's Pick
Boxcar Marketing has been working with James Sherrett of AdHack and Jay and Leah of Giant Ant Media to promote the Show Us Your Balls Super Bowl-esque Commercial Contest. We filmed the beginning of an ad, developed a marketing plan with ringtones, mp3s, avatars and...
I am a Digital Tour Guide
by Monique Sherrett | Jan 12, 2009 | Harebrained Ideas
I am a digital tour guide in a land of digital tourists. Digital native and digital immigrant are two labels we continue to assign to people based on generation. Their meanings rely on a division according to age in which one is a person who has grown up with digital...
Twitter Tools & Tips for Business
by Monique Sherrett | Jan 4, 2009 | Social Media Marketing, Tools & Technology for Non-Techies
Miss604 posted a perfect summary of some really cool twitter tools. Here are my favourites from her list: Generate a tweet cloud http://tweetclouds.com/ Create polls http://strawpollnow.com/ See what’s happening right now based on a search term...
Stop Perfuming the Pig: Pragmatic Marketing
by Monique Sherrett | Jan 4, 2009 | Internet Marketing Strategy
Stop Perfuming the Pig: Why “real” marketing is done before the product is created “No amount of perfume can overcome the stench of a technology product that people don’t need,” by Steve Johnson. Peter Drucker makes it clear that...
Boxcar Marketing Business Cards
by Monique Sherrett | Jan 2, 2009 | News, Work
Friend, colleague and awesome graphic designer Jason Landry created the Boxcar Marketing logo and business cards that we’ve been lovingly passing around for the past couple of months. The font for the word Marketing is Gotham by Hoefler & Frere-Jones. And...
5 Online Marketing Tips for the Holidays
by Monique Sherrett | Dec 8, 2008 | Internet Marketing Strategy, Underwire Newsletter
The fast-approaching holidays and New Year offer a great opportunity for reflection. Below are 5 blog posts from Underwire over the past year. They are the blog posts that are most popular on the site and undoubtedly a good reminder of online marketing tips for the...
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