Tag Moustachette

The Experimentation Imperative

Here’s the deck I presented this weekend at the Planningness Conference. In a nutshell:

  • The “place” where we all work is extraordinarily complex, difficult to understand and control
  • I think, at least, we can look to the weather modification field for some signals as to what we should be looking at
  • We need to focus on, and test for, the small things that drive people
  • With digital, we can develop sharable experiments, outside our client work, to better understand these small drivers
  • I’m sorry to all those from whom I stole images

I’ll be sharing the results of our brainstorms in another post.

We focused on coming up ideas surrounding four rich areas for exploration:

  1. Digital Anonymity
  2. Fan Causes
  3. Brands + Services
  4. Competition & Rewards

It’s a longish deck, but it’s actually a pretty quick read. Would love to hear your thoughts. Big thanks to Mark Lewis for having me out to talk to a bunch of really, really smart people.

Mustache Trend Report

Fantachetic
I posted the Canadian Club stir-sticks on NOTCOT on Friday (thought more people would like it, given that I’ve been seeing them everywhere lately), and thanks to my cheap web hosting company, iPower, my site’s been, well, loading like it’s being transferred at speeds measured in baud. Note to self: Do NOT use iPower. They are terrible. Be a big boy and step up to big boy hosting.

Anyhow, mustaches seem to be super duper hot right now. Hot like Hansel.

Salvador Vase
You can get them on vases at the W hotel.

Stache Hankies
You can clean your face with them with hankies available on Etsy.

Felt Staches
You can have them on high-end bags and wallets.

Glass-Staches
You can have them on your drink.

Wedding Staches
You can take pictures with them at your wedding.

Key Staches
They can keep your keys together.

Why all the mustache interest? Along with KP & E, I’m helping some members of Fall Out Boy, Yellowcard, and the fine folks at thirtysevenclick and Treeline Interactive launch a new short film called Moustachette. You can find more at their Facebook page. More to come on this.

Canadian Club Stache Cards/Stirrers

Canadian Club
Clever! Probably cheap, too.

Canadian Club - Back
Nice that they didn’t put their URL on there, just movember.com.

Cyclops-y
I suppose this is what you’re supposed to do with the stirrers.