Signing Kaepernick: Self-Atonement Marketing or Justice?

There is a reason why many people are reluctant to forgive, let alone support, individuals and businesses that market their self-atonement.

LOL Interwebz: Eight Princess Movie Ideas I Will Gladly Sell to Disney for a Million Dollars Each

It doesn’t have to make sense, it doesn’t have to be not-embarrassingly-neocolonial, and it doesn’t even have to be especially marketable; you just put the word “Princess” in the title, and the marketing takes care of itself!

CAPC Podcast #31 – CAPC Membership, Privileged Gaming, Ronald McDonald Re-Brand

CAPC Podcast #10 – T-Pain the Sad Clown, The Act of Killing, Oscar Selfie Fallout

ELSEWHERE: Branding Ourselves With Idolatry?

American Girl Dolls: Created In Whose Image?

“So as I peruse Szwarc’s portraits, I wonder in whose image these dolls are made.”

Did Apple Really Just Screw Over iPad Owners?

Put simply, you will never own the latest and greatest.

Mixed Signals: You Are Your Brand

When I am honest and forthright about who I am—my beliefs, my skills, my standards—then people know me and what I stand for.

Mixed Signals: Your Life as a PR Campaign

“Instead of living life for the joy of living it, we set up moments that we can broadcast, making life more like a production to execute to an audience rather than a life to live to the full.”

Mixed Signals: What Your Facebook Likes Say about Jesus

“Liking a page is so easy, so simple, a click doesn’t feel like an important decision. It’s only Facebook, we think. But as Facebook’s marketing strength grows, we may need to be a bit more selective with the pages we choose to be associated with.”

Mixed Signals: What the Christian Message Says to the Masses

Targeting a message to your “superfans” doesn’t mean that they are the only ones listening.

Marketing Our Families

The Billboard Family is getting paid to make their family public, but aren’t we doing the same thing?

The Problem With the “What The *Bleep* Church”

That famous church with the shocking sign sure got your attention, but at what cost?