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April 15, 2015
Could the same Throniemania behind Game of Thrones’ recent episode leak lead to a high demand for scrap metal?
Whether you’re a die-hard fan or a new Thronie (a self-labeled term for fellow Game of Thrones enthusiasts), if you’ve watched one episode of the popular television series, you’ve probably noticed the swords. With names like Widow’s Wail, Lightbringer, Lady Forlorn and Blackfyre, the swords are a big part of the show – almost official cast members, actually. العاب بوكر اون لاين
In fact, the swords are so popular many DIYers are recreating their own using scrap metal! تنزيل العاب اون لاين According to many online forums, good choices are coil springs, timing chains and leaf spring steel.
While you may not find Valyrian steel – the ultimate, highly coveted metal for swords in the TV series – you can find a surprisingly extensive list of metals and other scrap materials at our client’s site, iScrap App. And even if you’re not a Thronie looking to forge an impressive conversation piece, you can also find the latest metal prices and news at the iScrap Blog.
And while you’re at it, tell us what you thought about the Season 5 kickoff, leaked or not. المراهنات الرياضية We won’t tell.
P.S.: If you think forging a sword from scrap metal is a fun weekend project, check out how this guy recreated the throne from Game of Thrones using duplex nails.
March 31, 2015
Can Sleep Cure Creative Block?
In the advertising field, ideas are your bread and butter. Throughout history, creatives everywhere have pursued countless ways to induce, inspire and downright finagle ideas and innovating thinking from the muses. From the oracle of Delphi’s penchant for toxic fumes to inspire creative visions to Mad Men’s liberal use of libations to get creative juices flowing, people in the creative fields have turned to a little help to create better. الروليت العربي But you don’t have to find yourself sipping at the bottom of an old whisky bottle, or at the mouth of a volcanic vent for that matter, to push through the dreaded creative block.
Idea-deprived and creativity-blocked ladies and gentlemen, meet Morpheus – no, not the Matrix’s preachy guru with a charming inclination toward tough love. I’m referring to the mythological Morpheus, the Greek god of dreams that takes you to the land of slumber every night, because the secret to more creative thinking is actually better sleep. But what’s so special about sleep?
In the first part series, we’ll learn how sleep wakes the muse in us and even makes us smarter.
From Snooze to Muse: Sleep helps us connect ideas
A study done by Matthew Walker of University of California at Berkeley found that sleep helps us connect “remote associates”, which are like pieces of information that our mind usually keeps separate. Basically, sleep makes it easier for our brain to pull together little flashes of brilliance into cohesive ideas! لعبة الروليت المجانيه
“Making links between pieces of information that our daytime rational minds see as separate seems to be easiest when we’re offline, drifting through the dream world,” said Tom Stafford, of the BBC’s Neurohacker Column.
This skill cannot be overlooked in creative fields, where clever headlines and visuals must constantly push the envelope, depending on these “free associations” to craft new ideas by linking together useful associations between seemingly separate themes. Next time you need a clever headline or stunning visual, consider your time under the sheets.
Sleep Smarts: Sleep makes us better problem-solvers
A research study by the University of California, San Diego School of Medicine found that sleep enhances our problem-solving capabilities. It seems that REM, or Rapid Eye Movement, the special eye activity that only happens while you’re snoozing, boosts the brain’s creative problem-solving centers.
Sara Mednick, the leading scientist in the study explains, “We found that – for creative problems that you’ve already been working on – the passage of time is enough to find solutions. تكساس هولدم بوكر However, for new problems, only REM sleep enhances creativity.”
Mednick and her colleagues think that REM sleep boosts creativity by stimulating “associative networks”, allowing the brain to make new connections between bits of information. If you don’t think that problem solving is important to creatives, just think that every logo, website or even a headline is actually a small problem to be solved, each with its unique obstacles.
Time to put to practice what we’ve learned. Go catch some z’s, and tune in next time for more of sleep’s awesomeness.
March 30, 2015
Peak Seven’s Director of Marketing, John-Michael Del Valle (JM), to speak at SFIMA Startup Marketing Conference 2015.
As a member of the Growth Hacker Panel, JM will be covering Growth Hacking Lead Generation. سلوتس اون لاين
The brainchild of Startup Socials – a global community of entrepreneurs fostering growth, connections, relationships and education – Startup Marketing Conference 2015 will bring industry thought leaders, authors and big idea teams together to teach companies about rapid growth and digital marketing best practices, new trends in digital and lean marketing, and growth hacking.
The Startup Marketing Conference will take place in Ft. Lauderdale, on Thursday, April 9th. Get invited and check out more details on their site.
November 26, 2014
As I opened my inbox this morning, it was more obvious to me than ever that Black Friday has already started. موقع قمار اون لاين “BLACK FRIDAY SNEAK PEEK” and “LAST CHANCE DEALS” are just a few of marketers attempts at FOMO-inducing headlines (or Fear Of Missing Out for all my non-acronym fluent friends). Black Friday used to be just Friday, but with retailers and marketers alike pushing consumers to buy buy buy, Black Friday now begins Thursday afternoon for many stores. Furthermore, Cyber Monday began this week, instead of the Monday following Thanksgiving. What’s the deal? And no – I’m not talking saving money here!
Starting consumer savings before Black Friday means retailers could get a head start into the “black,” or be financially solvent (if they weren’t already). Unfortunately, many uneducated consumers do not know that Black Friday is NOT the best day of the year to get the best prices on items, and neither is Cyber Monday. Clothing is hit-or-miss and often you get much better deals at end of season sales or through retailers such as 6PM.com (Zappos’s clearance website, my credit card’s most hated website). In most cases, there are great deals on electronics for Black Friday, but the electronics you can get the best deals on come and go in trends. This year, for example, the PlayStation 4 is rumored to be one of the hot items that you can get the best deal on. Therefore, before you rush out to camp out outside of Best Buy or hit the mall at 5a.m., you should do your research. Take advantage of retailers who post Black Friday “sneak peeks” on their website or through e-blasts, check social media, and check sites such as RetailMeNot.com for additional coupons and savings. Amazon.com and previously mentioned 6PM.com are my secret weapons for finding lower-priced anything. In the meantime, since you’re already probably surfing the Internet for holiday deals, check out some of these facts about Black Friday and Cyber Monday:
- In 2013, New York City had the most people shopping online during Black Friday, followed by Atlanta, Los Angeles, Washington, D.C., and Chicago (source: Entrepreneur).
- 1 out of 3 Americans plan to shop on Black Friday (source: Entrepreneur). Hopefully the other 2/3 have more sane plans. موقع مراهنات 365
- Up 18% from 2012, over $1.9 billion was spent in online Black Friday sales (source: Entrepreneur). That’s a lot of Chipotle burritos!
- Surprisingly enough, shopping in stores at 10am or later was the most popular time, while 1-3am was the least popular (source: Entrepreneur). Glad to see people have at least some common sense.
- Online Black Friday sales peaked around 9am in 2013, and Google searches between 8am-noon, then again from 4pm-7pm (source: Entrepreneur)
- Amazon.com is the most popular Black Friday retailer with 7.7 unique visitors, followed by Wal-Mart at 3.5 million and then Best Buy at 2.75 million (source: National Retail Federation)
- Clocking in at 87%, the most popular Black Friday purchase were electronics, followed by clothing at 71% (source: Entrepreneur)
- Black Friday shoppers referred from Pinterest spent 77% more money per order than those referred from Facebook (source: BusinessInsider)
- Conversely, shoppers referred from Facebook converted into sales at almost 4x the rate of Pinterest (source: BusinessInsider)
- In 2012, Wal-Mart had the most Twitter mentions at 77.5% of the voice, but 4:1 of those mentions were negative (source: BusinessInsider). This is not surprisingly, considering the types of incidents that are reported year-after-year at Wal-Mart.
October 20, 2014
2014 wouldn’t be complete without another Apple product announcement accompanied with another sassy critique (the last Apple critique of the year – I promise!). This time, the world’s attention has shifted from the iPhone 6 to the brand new Apple iPad Air 2 and iPad Mini 3. تنزيل لعبة الروليت Once again, Apple lures us into a technology-feeding frenzy where everyone in society suddenly becomes a Veruca Salt: we want the newest iPad, and we want it right now! However, instead of introducing an array of fabulous new features that add value and utility to the iPad, the new iPads emphasize just one feature: its thinness. Although it’s hard to argue against a thinner product, some people just can’t handle having nice things as we’ve seen recently with the iPhone 6. For example, there was #BendGate, where people who sat on their iPhone 6s noticed they were bending (gee who saw that one coming!). Then there was #HairGate, where consumers said the glass of the iPhone 6 was pulling out their hair (honesty people it’s like 3 strands, let it go). But these flaws, not had with past iPhone models, do shed light on the greater issue on hand: While lighter and faster technology is the goal, it seems product quality may be taking a hit. Is customer satisfaction Apple’s goal, or are they just out to stay ahead of the competition?
At a statuesque 5’2” with baby hands, the new iPhone 6 is too big for my grasp. This size of the new iPhone, in addition to not needing a new phone, ultimately played a role in my decision to not get the new iPhone. Additionally, the phone feels so thin that it could slip out of my hands at any moment, leading me to possess a constant fear of dropping it. What is the point of having the new iPhone if I’m terrified to use it anywhere other than in a room with padded floors and walls? Why couldn’t Apple have kept the size of the iPhone 5/5C/5S and made that thinner or lighter? At this rate, should Apple continue to make every succession of iPhones larger and thinner than the previous, they are going to size-out an entire market of baby-handed people, young and old, alike!
In all seriousness, Apple has an obsession with going thinner and lighter than both itself and its competitors. Why? Because most people are not going to say “no” to a lighter and thinner device (except me because I’m a baby-handed rebel). Apple’s claim to fame on the new iPad is that it is the thinnest and lightest tablet in the world. The iPad Air 2 is 20% thinner and 28% lighter than the fourth-generation iPad model, and 18% thinner than the previous Air model. What does this do for you? Nothing except lighten the load in your purse or backpack by a few ounces. Thanks, Apple – you truly are focusing on the important functional characteristics that consumers take into mind when purchasing a tablet (not). Furthermore, the shock value of thinner products has diminished over the past few years: everybody’s doing it, but how thin can you go before we are all texting on cell phones that are as thin as paper? كيف تلعب لعبة بينجو It just isn’t practical. Apple needs to readjust its focus to improving and developing new features for the iPad, rather than competing in the rat race for the thinnest tablet.
It’s enough with the Trimspa for iPad, Apple. Instead of wasting money trimming edges and weight off of the iPad Air, Apple should have spent their money working to fix certain flaws and adding value to the product through new working features. For example, iPad’s 10-hour battery life has been standard since its introduction in 2010. While 10 hours of battery life were fantastic in 2010, it is now 2014. Don’t you think after five generations of iPad we could exceed the 10-hour mark by now? Additionally, Apple should have developed features that add value to Apple’s products. While Apple introduced one of the first tablets, they lack many standard features that their competition has, such as split-screen sharing applications, an Apple stylus-type pen, and increased RAM. Sure, there’s probably an app solution for some of these, but what *if* Apple could make these features standard instead? العاب تربح مال Imagine if Apple could save all of us lazy people the time and trouble of downloading 3rd party apps! What a crazy thought!
In short, unless you are truly in need of a new iPad, there is no reason to run out to grab this device. While Apple possesses an extremely impressive ability to market itself and its products, the reality is that its product releases for 2014 have been nothing short of lackluster. Here’s to a more innovative and interesting 2015, guys!
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