Category Archives: Pot Pouri

Podcast: Market Unplugged Pot Pourri, Vol 2

https://www.fanagrams.com/blog/wp-content/uploads/2022/07/Marketing-Unplugged-Pot-Pourri-Vol-2.mp3Podcast: Play in new window | DownloadSubscribe: RSSThe intracacies of toothpicks, airline food, fake chicken, fast food signage and sell by dates. Follow Liza Blue on: Share:

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Podcast: Marketing Unplugged – Pot Pourri

https://www.fanagrams.com/blog/wp-content/uploads/2022/04/Marketing-UInplugged-Pot-Pourri.mp3Podcast: Play in new window | DownloadSubscribe: RSSThe marketing hype behind luxury sheets, triple washed lettuce, flushable wet wipes. Follow Liza Blue on: Share:

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The Flies Have It

Stories require a setting and a few workable details to set the mood.  Often this is weather-related (“it was a dark and stormy night…”), but here is my sure-fire suggestion to set a scene and provoke a mood. Add a … Continue reading

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Podcast: The Flies Have It

https://www.fanagrams.com/blog/wp-content/uploads/2019/11/The-Flies-Have-It.mp3Podcast: Play in new window | DownloadSubscribe: RSSHere is my sure-fire suggestion to set a scene or provoke a mood.  Add a fly.  And give him human characteristics. Follow Liza Blue on: Share:

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Dear Lady in the Front Row Who Gasped

I was at the podium and you were sitting in the front row when I heard you gasp.  Some may not have heard it, others thought it was nothing more than a quick intake of breath.  I am going to … Continue reading

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In Praise of Kitchen Gadgets

  There is nothing like a visit to Bed, Bath and Beyond to restore one’s confidence in American ingenuity.  I’m not talking about the whiz bang intelligence required to send a man to Mars, invent the Internet, or thwart Russian … Continue reading

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Podcast: In Praise of Kitchen Gadgets

https://www.fanagrams.com/blog/wp-content/uploads/2018/11/Gadgets-final.mp3Podcast: Play in new window | DownloadSubscribe: RSSIf you want a jolt of American ingenuity, go to Bed and Bath and Beyond and take in the splendor of all the kitchen gadgets. Follow Liza Blue on: Share:

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The Slippery Slope to Sloth

  Definition: Sloth /slôTH,slōTH/ noun 1. disinclination to action or labor; spiritual apathy Symbolized by a Lazy Boy in the living room. 2.  A slow moving tropical American mammal Derived from the activity level of a human in a Lazy … Continue reading

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The Lost Seinfeld Episode

When I picked up my deck stain at the Sherwin Williams store, I realized I’d stumbled onto the perfect scenario for a Seinfeld episode.  I couldn’t believe that the beleaguered Seinfeld writers, who appeared to run out of ideas by … Continue reading

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The Dumbest Player on the Hockey Team

Last month Nick and I spent 36 hours in the clutches of the Marquette General Hospital in the Upper Peninsula, Michigan, investigating his fleeting episode of chest pain, which turned out to be nothing more than a flush of heartburn.  … Continue reading

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