Sam Kidd's thoughts on business

I love clever Ad's. Guess there is a part of me that would love to work in this area. I love finding ads that are different from the norm and you know they had a bit of fun making them.
I'm just going through my usual 'I'm bored' sites at the moment. I was looking at Coolhunter when I saw this ad.


It's from Isbank in Turkey.  This is the front view.



And this is the back view. What a great way to make people slow down
and read your ad, and remember it. Fantastic!

If your on the move a lot, and if your carrying around with you information that you wouldn't want anyone to get their hands on. Then this little gadget could be what you’ve been looking for.

The finger print scanner on the top of the drive protects the contents of the hard drive. Once you connect the drive to your PC, you swipe your finger across it, this decrypts the data and you are now able to access whats on it. Once you disconnect the drive from the PC the data is instantly encrypted. Handy! So if you’re on the move, or just really paranoid that people are trying to steal everything you own, then you might want to put this on the Christmas list.

This is a new model from Seoul-based Sarotech, and is named the "Cutie Bio."

Just rang another property crowd today that I'm dealing with. I'm waiting for the rent on this property to be set, as it has just come to market at the time of a rent review.  I spoke to them about this 2 weeks ago and it still has not been agreed it. WHY???

How hard is it to sit down with the 2 parties in a room and say, hey what about this? Lets have a bit of a discussion here and now, and agree on an amount, and save us all a load of time.

In business are we trying to make things harder and seem more complicated than they need to be?  Days seem to fly by so fast, so each day waiting for a simple decision, in my mind a bloody waste of time.  Why can't business people shake up this system and say 'we are sick of waiting for months to do deals and waiting for solicitors to get back to us' Lets cut the crap and do deals now.

I posted a blog about this cool idea of Guinness's, which was to hunt online for their new advert to win some sort of a prize. Well that idea sounded great but I was reading a favourite blog on mine, adfreak  and he had the link to the ad on YouTube.

Well I'm to lazy to search the net for it, and for the others of you who are also to lazy to search for this 'great' new Guinness ad, here it is.








Guinness has said that no special effects were used in this ad, and that it cost a reported £10 million to make.  Honda’s ad does come to mind when you watch this.

Just been reading on Damien Mully's blog about some company stealing his blog posts for their site.
The other day I saw a banner on a blog I was reading, it was for a site called copyscape.

What the site does is it checks your site, and then search for copies of your page on the Web.
It's interesting to see what it comes up with.