As more advertising penetrates the market it becomes harder to get our audiences’ attention. The amount of advertising you see in a day averages in the thousands. You probably don’t even realize how many advertisements you see, because like a lot of people you block them out, or ignore them. Here’s a challenge: notice every advertisement you are exposed to in a day and record it in a note book. You will be shocked. Because of this, younger audiences are less affected by traditional methods of advertising. However, they are more appreciative of truly creative messages and messages that really connect with them. Traditional methods are not dying, however they have become harder to use. This has created the growing trend of Guerilla marketing. Guerrilla marketing is an unconventional, potentially interactive, way of promoting. It relies on time, energy and imagination rather than a big marketing budget. (Read more here!)
Because of this, we want to expose our Harlo fans to a few Guerilla Marketing Websites. They are fun to look at and maybe they’ll help get your creative juices flowing. The possibilities are endless with Guerilla Marketing. Check out this site. It features 80 different ideas. Here’s a blog about different guerilla marketing campaigns. Here is another blog featuring Guerilla marketing campaigns. Check out the campaign for Nationwide (left). Let the creative juices flow, any type of company can use a guerrilla marketing campaign.
Harlo Interactive is a website design firm based in Portland, OR.
The much anticipated Migration Brewery website is up and running! The new Brewery just opened their doors to the public last week, and Harlo had the lovely opportunity of designing their new site. The look is simple and stylish, featuring a “beer blog,” “newsroom,” “events,” and an option to subscribe to the MB blog. A sexy new web presence, and delicious beer aren’t the only things that MB is bringing to the table, now their kitchen is up and running as well! Our lunch recommendation for the week is one of their yummy hot or cold veggie/meat sammies, paired with the soon to be famous “Migration pale ale.” Check out the site, check out the dig, and most importantly drink a cold one for us!
Harlo Interactive is a website design firm based in Portland, OR
The folks at Harlo recently stumbled upon this cool find, a ”silk” (smooth) web icon set created by UK web developer Mark James. The most recent (and possibly final) set called “version 1.3” Posted on Marks website FAMFAMFAM, features 1,000 icons. These include (but are not limited to) report icons, picture icons, small XHTML/CSS buttons, and hardware drive icons. The feed icons have been brought into line with new standard, and all icons have been compressed to lower the file size. Oh and by the way it’s free, so download away my friends!
Harlo Interactive is a website design firm based in Portland, OR
Towards the end of 2009 the teens of Milwaukee Michigan were being encouraged to prevent pregnancy in an interesting way. At one point, bus stops were being covered with ads that portrayed a poopy diaper and encouraged passersby to take a whiff. The ads created by Serve Marketing for the United Way, turned out to smell like nothing at all, darn it! The copy located strategically in the middle of the brown spot on the diaper read, “This doesn’t really stink, but the consequences of teen pregnancy do.”
To go along with the preventative sex theme, Serve marketing also created a “practice safe text” print campaign. The ad featured a picture of a cell phone with a condom over it to encourage teens to resist sending nude pictures of themselves on their cell phones. Apparently Greg Oden didn’t get the memo.
Recently the teens of Milwaukee have been bombarded by trailers, bus shelters, billboards, radio ads and Facebook and Wikipedia pages for a horror film called 2028. Or at least what they thought was a horror film. It turns out that it was all a hoax, and the fim was actually a PSA to prevent teen pregnancy. What do you think about all of these messages targeted to teens? Do you think they will make a difference, and help lower teen pregnancy rates in Milwaukee Michigan, or is too much? Click here to to view the video.
Harlo Media is a website design firm based in Portland, OR
This energetic group of composers/performers from Brooklyn blend their classical training with an eclectic taste of musical styles to entertain audiences of all ages. Check them out on YouTube, or find their Facebook page! This trio is made up of three incredibly talented musicians, Greg Pattillo, Eric Stephensons, and Peter Seymour. This group takes easily recognizable songs and puts a unique twist on them (like the Nutcracker, the Sesame Street Song, the Mario Bro’s Theme, and the Inspector Gadget Song). Not only do they remix songs, they have originals of thir own, which are amazing as well.
Greg Pattillo (Flute) is recognized throughout the world for his redefinition of flute sound. His groundbreaking performance videos on Youtube, showcasing “beatbox flute,” have been viewed more than 20 million times. Eric Stephenson (Cello) styles range from Classical to Jazz to rock to folk. Peter Seymour (Bass) has performed with a multitude of highly acclaimed artists and ensembles. They all met at the Cleveland Institute of Music, where they received their Bachelors of Music.
I had the privilege of seeing this group perform live at the Old Church in Portland, OR. I highly recommend you check out their performances if you get the chance.
Here’s a little taste of Project Trio:
Harlo Media is a website design firm based in Portland, OR.
Harlo is happy to announce that a new brewery will be opening in Portland today! Their name is Migration Brewery and their located on 2828 NE Glisan Street . You might be asking yourself ”what makes them any different from the rest?” here is your answer, they pride themselves on creating good beer for good people, and want to make a positive difference in our community through healthy food, and unique social experiences. Meet us there at 6:00 for some great conversation, fun, and better yet amazing beer. You won’t want to miss out!
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Is your desktop boring, uninspiring, or simply a “plain Jane?” If so look no further, we found the perfect solution to cure any computer monotony. Wall base.net is a searchable wallpaper data base that takes desktop “décor” to the next level. The site is powered by an image+metadata scraper which pulls images from three channels W (anime wall paper), WG (general wall paper), and HR (high resolution/high quality photos). Script then takes the raw parsed data (post title, img title, text), processes the images, and indexes everything in a MySQL. On a more technical level the scrape is written in Python 2.5, and uses a Python Image Library (PIL) to process the images . The scraper not only pulls images, but all the information contained in the posts, which allows the contextual data from the images to be searched. Needless to say the website is awesome, and you can find wall paper (images) of anything. Simply type your word of choice in the search bar and test it out for yourself!
Harlo Media is a Portland base website design firm, learn more.
ignore them. Here’s a challenge: notice every advertisement you are exposed to in a day and record it in a note book. You will be shocked. Because of this, younger audiences are less affected by traditional methods of advertising. However, they are more appreciative of truly creative messages and messages that really connect with them. Traditional methods are not dying, however they have become harder to use. This has created the growing trend of Guerilla marketing. Guerrilla marketing is an unconventional, potentially interactive, way of promoting. It relies on time, energy and imagination rather than a big marketing budget. (Read more here!)
