We fueled this year’s teen review panel on Doritos, Cheetos, chocolate and all you can drink A&W root beer.

Comments as follows on selected ads – topic picks in italics:

Dell as the computers crashed – I can’t remember life without a computer. I mean, wasn’t there one in the house when I was born? [1990 - first home computer acquisition, 1992 first project completed and submitted via bulletin board modem, first site up in 1996]

MacBook Air – familiar, but always impressive

Audi …

Talking about online marketing and public relations is one of my passions. Every chance I get, I share my knowledge.

Thanks to Dr. Pauline Wallin for selecting me as her online virtual publicity expert in her upcoming “Marketing with Authority” distance learning course. Find out how Pauline promotes her programs using slideshare videos like this one in this week’s Cool Tool feature.

View Market with Authority on Slideshare.

When Pauline put out a call for speakers, I responded right away. We first met …

Cellphones Growing on Web as a Way to Keep Up Image, a story about how

“The social networking phenomenon is leaving the confines of the personal computer. Powerful new mobile devices are allowing people to send round-the-clock updates about their vacations, their moods, or their latest haircut.”

mentions several tools, including kyte.

According to the site . . .

kyte allows anybody to create their own interactive TV channel on their website, blog, social network or mobile phone

With kyte, you create your own live …

I admit it. I love to give stuff away. Today’s MTN free ezine subscribers got treated to a video marketing report – as my gift. Now, in our house Easter is not a gift holiday [well, no gifts over $25], but what’s nice about having a list of loyal readers is that I can give away free information whenever I want. Like today’s guide, which is packed with links, ideas and resources. Want to join my herd? Sign up for a …

Now that Armand Morin’s announced Big Seminar 9, my blog is starting to pull traffic for this Big Seminar 8 preview post.

Note that this time I’m not offering a $500 scholarship. Even with that draw, it’s hard to compete against the major players who have bigger lists. Typically, they either offer nothing or an outrageously generous bonus.

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Here’s my take on the next Big Seminar. . .

Go to Armand Morin’s Big Seminar page, opt in and the first video testimonial …

My comment on Online Spin’s blog post about Expanding the Google Empire wound up in the cover of an email from Online SPIN, a MediaPost blog. I used Snag-it to capture the image. Thank you to the editors ~ for the call-out and for the steady stream of relevant content like this guide to what’s cooking in MSN’s AdLabs.

Ad Age’s article, Marketers’ Websites Outdraw Those of Major Media Players, by Jack Neff is on the most emailed-list. While the article itself covers lots of ground, these two paragraphs stuck out for me:

“Highest in consumer acceptance
Of all options for influencing the online influencers, brand websites rank highest both in consumer acceptance and marketer control, he said. But most brands still don’t fully capitalize on their websites, he added, by offering video, blogs or other elements of online communities.

More traditional …

Alex Mandossian just released a Teleseminar Secrets videomercial. Watch it to find out how to save $79 on the December 7 preview call and to see how a leading Internet marketer promotes his signature information series.

5000 unique visitors in 8 hours. Links to 260 blogs. That was 2 days ago. Judging by the depth and character of his blog/post, Thomas Baekdal’s Viral Marketing Tricks will be one that sets records. Why? Because it’s viral marketing at its best. The videos demonstrate Baekdal’s ideas as they entertain. Somehow, his Denmark accent comes through in his writing. Now, if he just added some audio of him reading the content . . . that would make the post even more infectious.   

To add a pinch …