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		<title>Spuds and Buds: The Story of Spuds McKenzie and The Bud Bowl</title>
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Anyone growing up in the 80s remembers Anheuser-Busch’s Original Party Animal, Spuds McKenzie. Originally appearing in a 1987 Super Bowl commercial for Bud Light, he’s always accompanied by three beautiful “Spudettes” and is always the center of attention.
Calm, cool, collected, and never short on girls or beer, Spuds was completely likable and memorable and [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.acceleratorinc.biz/blog/?p=253</link>
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		<title>Can Quality Creative Really be Crowdsourced?</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Crowdsourcing creative is fast becoming a part of the design marketplace.   
For those unfamiliar with crowdsourcing creative, it&#8217;s a way of throwing out a project to a worldwide pool of persons who practice a particular discipline, say  graphic design, and in return you get creative submissions from artists with a wide range [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.acceleratorinc.biz/blog/?p=249</link>
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		<title>General Motors Rally Cap Commercial is out of touch with America</title>
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Has anyone seen the latest commercial from General Motors?  It’s difficult to see but they use the “rally cap” as their metaphor for the ad. If you’re not familiar with the rally cap, it’s a baseball superstition that started, I’m guessing, back in the 80’s. If your team was behind in the last inning, the [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.acceleratorinc.biz/blog/?p=240</link>
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		<title>Pop Rocks, Pop Culture, and Life.</title>
		<description><![CDATA[www.resultsdriven.info

Nothing seems to entertain more than those mini movies on TV that we call commercials. Commercials are so loved that even 20, 30, or 40 years later, people fondly recall their favorites from childhood, or even the new favorite viewed just the night before.
I most fondly recall the commercials from Saturday mornings when I would [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.acceleratorinc.biz/blog/?p=236</link>
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		<title>Lions, Tigers and Teddy Bears &#8230; Oh My! Toy Fair &#8216;09</title>
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After attending the 106th annual American International Toy Fair in New York City this past weekend, we at Accelerator Advertising are excited to see how well the toy industry is going to do this year. We were there to develop new strategies for packaging, designing children toys, and marketing the latest trends of going green [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Super Bowl Commercials</title>
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The Super Bowl is always the time North America looks forward to great football, food, drink, friends, and for me&#8230; great advertising. This year, once again, offered lots of great creative and memorable ads. The Doritos spot in particular was interesting because it was not only funny and memorable, it also placed the product in [...]]]></description>
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		<title>The Snuggie: Successful Marketing 101</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Wake up marketers!  It&#8217;s a world where the inmates run the asylum and you&#8217;d better learn how they do it!  For decades now, marketers and brands have enjoyed the power to craft their messages and dictate how consumers should view their products.  One need only to do a quick Google search for, [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.acceleratorinc.biz/blog/?p=181</link>
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		<title>Prepare Your Advertising for the Great Recession of &#8216;09</title>
		<description><![CDATA[In this down economy advertisers are going to have change their messaging.  And the more quickly they do, the better off their numbers will become. Here are a few common sense guidelines for marketing in a recession:]]></description>
		<link>http://www.acceleratorinc.biz/blog/?p=176</link>
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		<title>Who Started Making the Holidays So Commercial Anyway?</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Working in the advertising business, I get plenty of jeers from my friends and family around the holidays for my role in the commercialization of the holidays.   I must admit, that even I at times wish the holidays weren&#8217;t so crass and commercial.  That was until I watched the holiday classic, &#8220;It&#8217;s [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.acceleratorinc.biz/blog/?p=163</link>
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		<title>It’s 10 p.m. on Saturday night. Do you know where your shopper is?</title>
		<description><![CDATA[You have no excuse not to with today’s dramatically informative market research methods, which encompass everything from old school surveys to secret-agent-caliber equipment. The market is changing, and market research methods are changing right along with it. They are evolving into increasingly shopper-focused, in-store-oriented techniques… because at-retail is the new mass medium.

Let’s take a look [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.acceleratorinc.biz/blog/?p=157</link>
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