Ok, so I have to admit that I LOVE Gmail ! Using Gmail as a business platform has been totally amazing; However
I couldn’t help to look at this video for their “NEW” Gmail Motion now launched and still in Beta mode and LAUGH OUT LOUD !

OK, OK… I admit, I was so excited at first that it didn’t dawn on me that it was April 01st – APRIL FOOLS DAY ! LOL

Google went through the trouble of making a series of videos with actors, and even a so called “body language” expert who at one point said – and I quote “We are grabbers and killers” HAHA

Ok, so I won’t ruin it for you – YOU HAVE TO WATCH THIS GMAIL MOTION VIDEO. As brilliant as this new Google tool
is, this video looks like a sketch comedy . LOL

Go ahead.. have LOL at Gmail Motion.

A couple years ago while sharing office space with a friend of mine who has a graphic design and printing
company, I began to notice that not a week would go by that he wasn’t working on a new logo design for a client;
and I eventually found out that each of his logo packages sold for around $300CAD. Not a bad profile margin I thought,
assuming he only took about 4 hours to conceptualize and actually design the 3 options he offered as a park of his
logo package.

It was a few months after we decided to part ways that I discovered a “crowd source” website called 99Designs.com,
and it dawned on me that people who need a logo designed are way better off having dozens of creative brains work on
a concept for the same cost you’ll be paying just one guy/gal to create for you. Think about it for a sec, are you really
getting your money’s worth, or all the design options you can when you depend on just one person’s brain to figure out
what it is you’re trying to accomplish visually for your company ?

Now don’t get me wrong, I’m not saying don’t give your business to a graphic designer you know and like, and if they are
doing a good job for you then that’s awesome ! However I personally like the idea of starting a free account, shooting
my ideas to a crowd of designers from all over the world, setting my budget, getting a wack load of cool designs that I can
choose from, and sending them back with critiques until it’s perfected !

99Designs.com let’s do the following :
- Set your budget for your logo project ( minimum in $295.00 )
- Choose what colors you have in mind for your logo
- Use a slider type application to explain the details for you.
- Guarantees your money back if you’re not 100% satisfied.

More and more major brands are shifting their ad budgets from traditional forms of marketing
in favor or social media campaigns. One such company is Pepsi who thought about it and
decided they weren’t going to spend $3M for a mere 30sec commercial on NBC during last
year’s Superbowl.

In this video Ed Butowsky, Managing Partner of Chapwood Capital Investment Management
explains Pepsi’s decisions to take social media and run with it.

Did you know that as of the end of 2010 there were 210,000000 blogs ? yep, that’s right 210 Million -
think about it, that’s way over 6 times the population of Canada.

Whether or not you have a website already is not the issue, it’s if you have a blog component to your
site that matters. Read the rest of this entry