Archive for January 28, 2010

the rise of claim mania #marketing

claim mania.  it’s happening everywhere.  increasingly marketers are moving towards identifying legal claims that prove their product is superior.  while this is nothing new in industries like pharma and medical devices, claim mania has spread more heavily into non-medically related industries/categories.  for certain consumer brands, it’s no longer good enough to just say you’re the best, but instead brands are…

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the year of “you” on detavio.com

like fine wines we should all get better ,and that is exactly my goal for 2010.  i want to get better serving you.  i spent the majority of 2009 finding myself in this space.  i developed my voice, chose my weapons of choice, discovered the topics that most interested me, and had a lot of fun learning in the process.…

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live life backwards

we are short-sighted people, driven by the heat of the moment.  most of the time we don’t see further than our noses.  i, personally, am notorious for telling people i live my life t+2 hours at a time (the current time it is now plus 2 more hours).  in other words, if it’s not between now and two hours from now…

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my birthday wish today

today is my birthday and i am reminded that the words “happy birthday” are always followed by one inevitable question, “what do you want?”   and this year, instead of requesting some new hot gadget from all of my facebook friends, blog readers, and twitter followers to see who loves me the most, i’m doing something different.  one request for…

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