Something Special: The Ultimate Twitter and Facebook Cover Photo PSD Template
Ok, guys. You know usually we stick to word-smithing, but as we've been doing a lot of social lately and in-housing the design, I thought I would let this thing free into the wild. This is our own internal collection of Twitter PSD templates and Facebook Cover Photo...
Graph Search: Social Is No Longer An Option
For the five people who haven't heard yet, last Tuesday Facebook announced it was launching a massive new project. A "third pillar", in Zuckerburg's own words, of the Facebook platform. Graph Search: a social network search engine that builds custom results based on...
Email Hacking: 9 Simple Steps to Better Open Rates
MarketingSherpa recently had a bit of a short stub about factors that influence open rates. Unfortunately, they don’t seem to be too big about providing real insight about what you can do to make these factors work in your favor. That’s where Stunt & Gimmick’s comes in. I don’t want to say we’re “growth hackers”, because I hate that term, but we defenitely come from a hacker culture. That’s why we’re going to share some of the hacks and tweaks that’ll turn these 12 open rate factors from “Oh $#!T” to “Oh Yeah!”.
Here’s How to Help – Hurricane Sandy Relief Efforts
Hurricane Sandy might have passed us by last week, but she still left a massive amount of ruin for a lot of New Yorkers. If you want to give back and spend your off-time volunteering, we thought we'd help spread the word about where help is most needed and what you...
6 Things You Shouldn’t Worry About In Your Writing
I can already tell there's a lynch mob forming outside my apartment building, and all I've done is asked some people for opinions about whether they think this would make a good blog post or not. Nevertheless, I think this is something important that we need to have a...
Copy We Like: Moo.com Celebrates Their Birthday
We always like spotlighting great copy, even if it's not our own. We received an email from Moo.com - a fun print company that specializes in business cards and tiny little calling cards - presenting an extension on their 24 hour sale in celebration of their...
Getting What You Pay For: Scripted and the Continuing Death of Good Writing
Today, my colleague Lauren turned my attention to Scripted. It sounded like it was an interesting concept, so I went and took a look and now my day is officially ruined. Though writers have been claiming it for years, I've finally have to agree: Writing in America is...
Mo’ Mobile: Making Mobile Content That Doesn’t Suck
If I were to pick a spirit animal, my spirit animal would be Avinash Kaushik, the guru of all things analytics. Why? Because he succinctly and passionately says everything that marketers should be saying but aren't. In fact, he has a post on his blog, Occam's Razor,...
Tech Companies are Bullish About Sales Over the Next Year and Plan to Spend More on Content Marketing
We were just reading through the results of the CMO Survey from Duke University's Fuqua School of Business. Oddly enough, companies are pretty optimistic about their own sales for the next 12 months, while still being not as optimistic for the economy overall, and...
A Good Example of Honest Communication
We're pretty partial to our email newsletter (they're, let's say, unique). But every once in a while, we stumble upon a really awesome and well done email campaign that we have to share. And that's what we found this morning while rifling through our emails on the...