Trending Now: The hottest pop, tech, NOLA, music, marketing topics of this week & what you can do with them
➔ Oxford Dictionaries’ 2013 Word of the Year is “Selfie.”
Idea: Offer a discount to everyone who tags your brand on a ‘selfie’.
➔ Britney Spears’ music keeps away Somali pirates.
Idea: Play it on repeat. Post a sign letting employees know that they need to “Work B***.”
➔ Troubled Toronto Mayor Rob Ford and Charlie Sheen are BFFs on Twitter.
Idea: Don’t be afraid to ask a celebrity to support your cause.
➔ Yelp reviews don’t mean much when the Yelper is Yelping at the wrong Yelpin’ Hotel.
Idea: Post your most negative review in a different medium. (Assuming you’ve addressed it,) wear it as a badge of honor.
➔ Your LG G Flex smartphone can repair itself. Domo.
Idea: If you have a service that warrants it, offer a discount on parts for “self-healers” and/or give the phone away in a contest.
➔ Buy the naming rights of a deodorant and help the homeless.
Idea: You can “sell” the naming rights to anything… Any. Thing.
➔ Want a job in advertising? Lose your passport.
Idea: Turn something essential to your industry into something else completely unrelated.
➔ Mike Tyson returns Evander Holyfield’s ear… And Brett Favre learns to walk away.
Idea: Help a long-disgraced local celebrity poke fun at his or her self. (i.e., stage a come back).
➔ Kanye West and Kim Kardashian are “Bound”… There are no words for this.
Idea: Bring in a motorcycle…Pose for “selfies.” Put Kanye on repeat.
➔ Taylor Swift rocked the Victoria’s Secret 2013 runway and it airs soon.
Idea: One-up them…Create your own fashion show party taken to a whole ‘nother level.
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