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About: Jeff Ferguson

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Jeff Ferguson is an internet marketer, entrepreneur, inventor, writer, public speaker and is usually only this angry when talking about poorly made advertising or people who think gum is a food group.

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Taco Bell, Preferred Tacos of Retards

Apr 22, 2011

Tweet Is it really this hard to sell a fucking taco these days? Below is the train wreck that is the commercial for Taco Bell’s new “Cheesy Double Decker Taco,” the latest attack on America’s colons. There are so many things wrong with this add that I feel like I’m going insane. First, why are […]

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Sex in the Ice Cubes for Modern Times: F**k in the Underwear

Apr 12, 2011

Tweet Sorry, this isn’t as fresh a post as I would have liked. If you didn’t know, I started my own internet marketing agency a few months back and I’ve been slammed.  Plus, Mike, my other writer, has been swamped with actual work as well, so DTM got a slightly lower priority… until I saw […]

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Ad Classics: Mom, do you ever feel, not so fresh?

Feb 17, 2011

Tweet The fine people over at Nerve have put together this short film entitled, “Do You Douche?“, which fantastically compiles the history of those always awkward commercials about New Jersey’s favorite insult. Do You Douche? A Short Film from Nerve Media on Vimeo. I know women had it tough back then because, well, they thought […]

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#Superbowl Ads 2011: Why @adfreak gets it wrong and @usatoday gets it right

Feb 7, 2011

Tweet I have lots of friends on both the traditional and interactive sides of the advertising business, but I have to tell you, the traditional folks are the most fun to fuck with about branding. You see, my theories about traditional advertising are that the ads themselves have a real purpose in the world – […]

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Motorola picks a fight with Apple at the Super Bowl, and loses

Jan 31, 2011

Tweet One of the many marketing strategies you can take when you’re not the first in a particular marketplace is to pick a fight with the top dog.  I don’t know if Motorola isn’t the top dog in phones anymore and I don’t have the time to look it up, but for some reason they […]

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The folks at Oreo have too much damn money

Jan 17, 2011

Tweet I couldn’t find the sales figures for OREO cookies here in the US, but in Australia it was over $2 BILLION ($1.9 billion US) last year, so you can just imagine how many of the damn things we eat over here.  That said, clearly they need to spend some of the profits for those […]

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Like a good neighbor, State Farm is friggin’ annoying

Jan 4, 2011

Tweet I know, I know, you missed me a little, I understand.  While it was always my plan to let other writers fill in some of the gaps here on DTM, I never planned to stop writing posts.  Unfortunately, things at work got a tad busier than I expected and I decided I’d rather keep […]

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PETA ad in Southwest Mag: Screw you @SouthwestAir, @PETA, and @Adrants

May 24, 2010

Tweet I really don’t know whom to be pissed at here… Earlier today, Adrants reported that Southwest Airlines rejected the new PETA ad which features a hot chick in her underwear thanks to the new full body scanners at the airport  from it’s in-flight magazine because it was, “too provocative to run in our publication.” […]

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Accenture: Nothing says tech consulting like a surfing elephant [VIDEO]

May 20, 2010

Tweet There are boat loads of really smart people over at Accenture, which is why I’m wondering how this commercial saw the light of day. It’s actually a cute little concept. The surfing elephant gets an easy smile and ties in with their question about “who says you can’t be big and nimble?” Two things… […]

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Ford Fiesta commercials are just reaching for anything now

May 19, 2010

Tweet I actually like Ford as a car manufacturer, so I’m taking this series of stupid commercials kind of personal. If you’ve read over this site before, you might have seen my rant on some of the goofy things they do in car commercials.  Coming up with a creative ad concept for  car commercial has […]

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