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I am going to just throw out a few different marketing queries I have received to this blog and then reply as quickly as I can with marketing ideas. All of these are terms people have searched and found their way to my blog. I can’t promise that they found what they were looking for, although I hope they did. Just in case, here are my different marketing ideas for a variety of different areas.

Marketing an apartment building

Give away an iPhone to each unit with a sign out front saying so.

Blog Marketing Ideas

Build or join a blog network, provide something valuable for free.

Beer Marketing Techniques

Give it away and sell the cups

Drive-thru coffee marketing ideas

Make a fast lane for $1 refills. Better yet, make it automatic with an RFID reader so people can get refills anytime day or night.

Food bank Marketing Ideas

Electronic billboards in highly trafficked areas with a thermometer style display showing food levels.

Gas station marketing ideas

Bring back full-service at no extra cost.

Grocery store marketing strategies

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Halloween marketing ideas real estate

Turn the listed homes into haunted houses.

Marketing strategies for newspapers

Create a new Onion.com or go 100% digital with lots of features like mobile, email and RSS.

Movie theater marketing ideas

Convert the movie theater into a restaurant and don’t charge extra for the movie.

This reminds me of the Shock and Awe campaign of the second Gulf War. Did that actually succeed or fail? I am not really sure. But anyway, it does truly shock me at how quickly we could transform a whole country with a few high-powered explosives. In the marketing world, that shock and awe would be a keynote speech by Steve Jobs of Apple.

Apple seems to have the ability to keep the lid on upcoming projects so well that when projects are launched, people are blown away by what is unveiled (pardon the pun).

But is it sustainable to keep shocking the same audience over and over again? Or do they come to expect it and grow numb to the antics.

Ultimately, I think that being original and interesting is far better. Yesterday, I wrote a post about something that I discombobulated with. Discombobulated is a word I always look forward to using in a sentence. That post was probably a lot more interesting to read than the normal mumble jumble I usually publish.

Could it be that I have been going against my own advice and writing to the middle ground, the boring area? Did I start writing to the middle where the majority is, and not to the fridge that I so often recommend? Why on earth would I do THIS!? Mediocrity is to blame. It took over, and the blog became dull. Maybe it was never exciting to begin with. AHA! Insert theme music from 2001 Space Odyssey here.

So with that in mind. I will try my best not to run a shock and awe campaign but to write the way I would for myself. I hope you all can be entertained and learn something at the same time. Because marketing should be fun, where else can you tell a story and get paid this well?