Andy Boyer

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• "Heck, That's Alternative to Alternative"
• "Let's just throw some horns and a nose on the old one"
• "My Next Request, All Oklahomans Born in 2009 are to be Named Clay"
• "Stuff White People Like" Gets Unfair Criticism
• 13 Signs of a Great Start-up Culture
• 1st Hand Account From Mumbai
• 2 Big Numbers, and How They are Related
• 2 Handy Text Message Tools
• 23 Seconds of Fun From Bizkit the Sleepwalking Dog
• 400 Fans Watch End of Major League Game
• 5 (or so) Reasons Everyone Should Attend Monday's Sonics Rally
• 5 Tips for Pitch Decks
• 7 Deadly Sins of Brand Marketing
• 7 Final Words From George Carlin
• 9 Not Well thought Out Predictions for 2009
• A Feel Good Story, Courtesy of the New York Yankees
• A Few Notes About the Tiger Woods Debacle
• A Few Notes on Rob Glaser Leaving Real
• A Few Other Random Notes
• A Few Random Notes
• A Few Random Unconnected Thoughts on Media Consolidation
• A Few Thoughts From Ad Week
• A Few Tips for College Grads Looking for Marketing Jobs
• A Future History Lesson On Market Forces
• A Good Article on Community Stadiums
• A Lesson in How Not to Market
• A Loss for the Seattle Community
• A Moment of Silence for Bill Walsh
• A Plug for Proper Direct Marketing
• A Question for the MLS
• A Sports Story Every Marketer Should Read
• A Story About Packaging
• A Web Show About Web Celebrities
• A Week With Simply Too Much to Choose From
• A couple of fun Sounders to Thunder stats
• A few notes
• AOL Splits
• AT&T Tries to Shoot Down Verizon Ads
• About the MSFT / Facebook deal
• Accountability - How One League Actually Gets It
• Ad Agency Grades Are Out
• Ad Club Seattle Covers Social Media
• Add "Abalone Fisherman" to List of Jobs I Don't Want
• Air America Interview Rescheduled for Next Tuesday
• Airline Queues
• Al Kaufman Hates Fun
• All Hail the Blogger In Chief
• All We Are Saying, Is Give Pete a Chance
• Amateur Writers, Start Your Engines
• Amazon Blocks Statsaholic
• An Economy in Chaos - Could It Be Good For Our Health?
• An Email from Mark Cuban to David Stern
• And Now Back to Marketing Stuff...World Cup Ratings Soar
• And That's The Way It Is
• And You Think the Pac 10 refs are Bad...
• Andy 3, Bridge 0
• AndyBoyer.com Staff Out East
• Apparently, WSDOT Suggests I Move
• Apple Cup 2008 - the Immoble Force vs the Weightless Object
• Are Lower Clickthrough Rates a Problem?
• Are Seattleites Unfriendly?
• Are You Having Pool Parties That You Don't Know About....
• Are You a Sports Widow?
• Art Thiel Talks About Funding Husky Stadium with Tax Dollars
• At Blog World Expo Next Week
• At least We Know Google News Doesn't Filter Headlines
• Avatars from Voki
• BMW Advertising Win
• Back from Federated Media Summit
• Back in Seattle
• Banning MySpace
• Baseball Milestones
• Beat the Bridge Run Next Weekend
• Behind the Scenes at an Original Planning Meeting for the White River Amphitheatre
• Bellevue's Largest Holiday Card
• Best Online Marketing of the Week
• Big Move in the Scrabulous vs Hasbro Battle
• Bill Simmons on the EPL
• Blackmail, Brazil, Betrayal and More - The Week That Was
• Blended Ad Banner
• Bonanzle Review - "The Best eBay Alternative We've Seen"
• Bonanzle on KING 5 TV
• Book Review - The Life and Times of the Thunderbolt Kid
• Bubble Watch
• But How Much is My Facebook Page Worth
• But What is his High Score on iPhone Bowling?
• C'mon, Someone Thought This Was a Good Idea?
• Can You See the International Reality Show Here?
• Carena MD
• Carol Bartz Talks Leadership at UW
• Changing the Draft Order
• Cheating at Roulette is Legal in the UK
• Check out The Fratellis
• Check out Widget Bucks
• Chelsea v Seattle - What to look for
• Christmas with Tony and Eva
• Classic Media Awareness Test
• Coke's Happiness Machine Draws Viral Chuckles
• Comparing Paris Hilton to ....... Richard Nixon?
• Comparing the World Series to the US Presidential Election
• Confused by the Insurance Industry
• Congrats
• Congrats LSU
• Congrats to UW VCIC Winners
• Congrats to the MLS and Players
• Congratulations to Two UW MBA Teams
• Connecting Desperate Housewives to the Health of the MLS
• Conversations from years past
• Cool Web Site - Geni.com
• Craig Ferguson Unplugged
• Creative Pricing Based on Scarcity
• Crystal Air - Great stuff
• Defending the Bowl System - To a Point
• Dickipedia - Wikipedia with humor
• Did FC Barcelona Force Sounders FC Into Their First Marketing Non-Win?
• Dirty Rotten Comcastic Scoundrels
• Do Protesters Need Image Consultants
• Do You Need Cable Anymore?
• Does Amazon Want You To Fight Roosters?
• Does Your Social Media Agency Have a Site Like This?
• Does Youth Marketing = Long Term Sales
• Does the future of travel involve smaller airports?
• Doing Marketing Research at SB 42
• Domestic Transformer
• Don Imus is Coming Back
• Don't Drink and Email
• Dori Monson Show Experiments with Web Only Cast
• Down at Ad:Tech This Week
• Drawing a Line in the Twitter Sand
• Dublin 104 FM Salutes Henry
• Easiest, Quickest Way to Help Health Care
• Election Watch - Obama and Texting
• Emerald City Curse?
• Entitlement Takes on New Ground
• Entrepreneurship Reigns at UW Business Plan Competition
• Escaping the Downtown Hong Kong Chaos
• Everyone who has ever complained about an NBA ref.....may be right
• Everything You Need to Make a Quality Video Blog
• Evidence That We Need To Overhaul Education
• Evil Evil Marketing
• Explaining Kids' Hyperactivity
• Facebook Jails Scrabulous, Worker Productivity Rises 4000%
• Facebook Ready to Bring PayPal into the Walled Garden
• Fan Friendly Ticketing
• Farewell Ernie Harwell
• Feeding America's Forgotten People
• Feeling Justified About My Taste in Music
• Fireballs and Volcanoes a Plenty
• Flight for a Dollar, Do I Hear Two, Yes, Now Three Dollars...
• Flogging Molly December 4
• Follow Conversations About Anything, with Monitter
• Forbes Super Bowl Ad Viewer
• Fudzilla Stakes Entire Reputation on the Line With Bold Microsoft Prediction
• Fun Stats With the MLS
• Fun and Easy Social Media Campaign
• Fun with Inside Facebook Page Data
• Garys Social Media Count
• Geek Out With Cool Sports Technology
• Geeking Out With Some Google Chrome Commands
• Girls in Lingerie = Education?
• Glasses Raised High for Two Seattle Events
• Gmail Down, but it Works on iPhone
• Go Miniman Go
• Going Once...Gone. Seattle Loses Legend Dick Friel
• Good News For People Who Like to Play Mobile Phone Games For Free
• Good Post on SportsEconomist.com
• Goodbye P-I
• Google Test
• Great Collection of Executive Videos
• Griffey Retires....Now I'm Officially Old
• Guest Post - The UK Prepares for the World Cup
• Guest Post - UK Reaction to the 1-1 Draw
• Guy Kawasaki's Tips for Hindering Market Adoption
• Hail Dropkick Monkey
• Happy Holidays
• Happy Thanksgiving
• Headed to Womma
• Health Care, But at What Price?
• Heat Marketing
• Here's a Business Plan I'd Like to See
• Here's a Fun Blog
• Hey 7-11 Marketing Guy - This is What We Call a "Slam Dunk"
• Hey Look, We Have Our Own Sign
• Hide Yo Kids, Hide Yo Wife - The Gift that Keeps on Giving.
• Hide Your Kids - Antoine Dodson Update
• Hong Kong At Night
• Hong Kong Marketing and Ads
• How Come Only My Expensive Facebook Ads Get Clicked On?
• How Does a Creative Agency Set Itself Apart?
• How Local TV Stations Can Become Relevant Again
• How Many Customer Service Opportunities Are Airlines Missing?
• How Much Should I Pay For a Click?
• How Would You Market the MLS?
• How to Turn 15 Seconds of Humiliation into 15 Minutes of Fame
• I Become an iLemming
• I Have a New Nominee for World's Biggest Jacka$$
• I Love British Headlines....
• I Might Be Asking Too Much From Teachers
• I Need a Place to get News
• I Provide the Pictures, you Provide the Caption...
• I'll Enjoy It While I Can
• I'll Take "Appliances Married Men Would Never Be Allowed to Own" for $1000 please Alex.
• Iceland Day Seven-ish
• Iceland Day Three-ish
• Icon Wars
• Idea for Auto Bailout
• Idea for Soccer on US TV
• If Bear Stearns Can't Manage Their Finances...
• If I Ran the MLB All-Star Game
• If I Ran the MLS
• If I was an HR Recruiter in New York
• If My Friend Does Something While Facebook is Down, Did It Really Happen?
• If We Bought Cars the Way We Choose a Presidential Candidate
• If You Can't Build a Marketing campaign Around This...Then You're Just Not Trying
• If You Make A Mistake, Remember This
• If the Snow Didn't Convince You...
• If the University of Washington Was a Corporation
• If you can't make fun of a mass exodus, what really can you make fun of?
• In Case You Missed the Super Bowl Parade...
• In Defense of New Business Models
• In a related story, signups for rugby leagues rose 143%
• Incidental Marketing
• Inspiration from an Unlikely Millionaire
• Insult to Injury
• Intentional Acts of Destruction
• Internet Advertising Soars
• Interview With Facebook Execs at "All Things D"
• Is Google AdSense Too Scary For Me?
• Is Google trying to Affect Politics?
• Is Mobile Video "Supply Side" Product Development?
• Is Obama Starting Primary Speeches Early?
• Is Old the New New?
• Is This Ethical Online Political Advertising?
• Is This the Future of Newspapers?
• Is this the New Onion?
• It's Like "Halo" for Soccer Nerds
• It's Official - Obama is Not a Sun Devil
• I’m always glad to see Congress working hard
• Japanese Pen Spinning
• Jobs Blasts Teachers Union - Does He Make Sense?
• Join Team "No Runner Left Behind" at the Beat the Bridge Run
• Josh Howard, Mark Cuban, the National Anthem and a Blog - The Perfect Storm
• Just Keeping it Simple Today
• Know Any Cool Mobile Gadgets?
• Kobe's Big Jump
• KomoNews Gets Twitter (Sometimes)
• Kyle Johnson Photography
• LOL Bubble 2.0 Video
• Lake Union Kayaking
• Lamma Beach - Lunch on the Pier and A Disappointed Italian
• Launch of MyElectionChoices.com
• LeBron James Wants to Play in Europe? Why the NBA Should Make it Happen
• Les Trompeurs
• Life in the Sudan
• Limiting Congress' Right To Speak Online? This Can't Possibly be True
• Looking for fun startups?
• Lumosity - Something to Play With
• MLS Attendance, Week 2
• March Madness Ads, Hour 18
• Mariners Offer Apologies, Announce They'll Work With Season Ticket Holders to Salvage Season
• Mark Cuban on How to Start a Minor League Basketball League
• Mark Cuban vs the SEC
• Marketing Soccer in the U.S.
• Martin Conquest Takes Next Steps
• Meanwhile, we think the athletes are real
• Memorial for Tuba Man Tonight at Qwest Events Center
• Merry Christmas, Y'all
• Metallica Discovers the Whole Interweb Thingy
• Miami Herald Ends It's Experiment of Begging for Loose Change
• Mickey Mouse Marketing
• Miss Hooters Pageant
• Mobile Games Taking Off
• Mobile Marketing Hits Presidential Campaign
• Monday Night MLS Soccer
• More NBA Image Problems
• Movaya Featured on QuicklyBored
• Movaya Launches New Mobile Game Distribution Service
• Movaya Wants to Make It Easy to Sell Mobile Games From Your Web Site
• Mpire Widget Test
• Mpire Widget Test 2
• Music from the Grave
• My Favorite Facebook Page
• My First City Council Meeting Leaves Me Wondering
• My First Reactions To Being In Hong Kong
• My.BarackObama.com
• MyElectionChoices.com Back on AirAmerica Radio
• MyElectionChoices.com on Air America Tonight
• NBA Stars Give Up Community Appearances to Argue About Collective Bargaining
• New Ad Report - TV $ Down, Social Media $ Up
• New Music From the Editors
• New Revenue Gimmick for SeattleTimes.com
• New Site for the Blog Roll - Sports Economist
• New State Tax to Watch Out For
• News from Prison - no not that prison
• Nike "Write the Future" Postscript
• Nintendo Makes Great Use of YouTube Real Estate
• No Gas, Really
• No Runner Left Behind Vs "The Bridge"
• No Runner Left Behind vs The Bridge - 2009
• Non-Sounders MLS Game, A Review
• Now THIS is a PR Stunt
• Odd Real Estate Stat of the Week
• Offline, Un-Social Marketing, from Seattle's Fuel
• Oh When The Saints...
• Olympic Dreaming
• On Site Super Bowl 42
• Once in a Lifetime Opportunity
• One Quick Note on the Don Imus Thing
• One Shining Moment, Sans Teddy and Luther
• Online Ad Network Releases Study that Says Clicks Don't Matter
• Only 44,445 to go....
• Oprah's Flash Mob
• Our Own Personal Soundtracks
• Overachiever....
• PETA Opens Its Mouth, and a Few More Independents Take a Small Step to the Right...
• Pardon the Rant...
• Paying Respects to Two Broadcasting Legends
• People, You Cannot Control Social Media
• Pete Carroll on “How to Run a Social Media Program”
• Phelps, A-Rod and A Sub 8k Stock Market
• Phil Yerkes of Movaya on KIRO 710 AM
• PicNik - I could play here all day
• Pics from outside Univ of Phoenix Stadium
• Pity the Poor Guy Running the Wyoming Caucuses
• Players Texting the Media
• Podcast Revenue to Hit $400M in 4 Years
• Politics 2.0
• Politics You Can Actually Affect - Act Now
• Polls Made Easy, with Vizu
• President-Elect Obama's Online Ad Budget
• Privacy Today vs Tomorrow
• Product Review - The Wii is that good
• Progress vs Tradition on Capitol Hill
• Prolebrity
• Proof that EVERYONE is 6 Degrees of Seperation Away
• Proving Marketing Can Be Creative....and Cheap
• Question About Celebrity
• Quick Rant - Frisbee Ballet
• Quiz Rocket - The Worst Political Quiz Ever
• Qvisory - "Tools for Life"
• Random Music Review - The New Keane CD is Great
• Random Question About Tabloid PR Folks
• Real Life Deal or No Deal for the Blogosphere
• Reality TV for Your Web Browser
• Reason #4,186 that I love Mark Cuban
• Recap from WOMMU
• Recapping The Time on Air America
• Relief 4 Teeth - Fundraiser this weekend
• Remembering Tecmo Bowl
• Remembering The Tuba Man
• Reminder - Support the U.S. (and Seattle's) 2018 World Cup Bid
• Renewed Excitement for Mariners 2010
• Report from the UW Business Plan Competition
• Reporters vs PR Firms vs Blogs - The Battle Heats Up
• Rich Kline vs the Vineman
• Ripple TV, and the Emergence of Localized Advertising
• Rossi vs Gregoire Radio Ad War Begins
• SVC Class Monday
• Screeniac and Screencasts
• Seahwaks Show Absolute Class
• Seattle City Council Oversteps Its Bounds With Arizona Boycott Resolution
• Seattle Craigslist Alternative
• Seattle Fans Turn Out to Remember Tuba Man
• Seattle Loses A Piece of Itself, What Does a Fan Do Next?
• Seattle Nearing Gold in "Nanny-State" Olympics
• Shelfari
• Shifting gears in Taipei
• Shock and Awe Marketing
• Should We Revisit the Seattle Monorail
• Should You Fire Your Marketing Agency
• Site to Avoid
• Slide.com Web App
• Social Good Plus A Profit Motive
• Social Media 101
• Social Media APB - Who has a Biznik Success Story?
• Social Media Event at University of Washington Tonight
• Some MLS vs MLB Stats
• Some Random Notes from Ad:Tech SF
• Something To Make You Laugh - and Cry
• Sometimes the Best Way to Make a Statement is to Take an Existing Idea, and Turn it on its Head
• Sonics 2.0
• Sonics Bulls 1996 Game 1 Intros
• Sonics Fans Regain Hope - Here Comes the Calvary, er....Indians
• SonicsCentral.com Reviews Candidates
• Sounder Mania Hits Seattle
• Sounders Attendance vs the EPL
• Sounders Show Off New Microsoft Uniforms
• Sportsmanship Takes a Backseat
• Spring Creek Group Profiled in Smart Money Magazine
• Spring Creek Group at SVC Thursday
• Spring Creek Group to Give Seminar on Social Media at School of Visual Concepts
• Stephen Colbert Op-Ed Piece in New York Times
• Straight Talk from Costco's Jim Senegal
• Succumbing to the Grocery Store Promo
• Suck it up Haters - Twitter is here for good
• Super Bowl Thursday Night
• Supreme Court Ends 96-Year-Old Ban on Price Floors
• Syndicated Post - What Channel is Your Phone Turned To?
• TV, Radio, Print and Dry Cleaning Bags
• Taiwan Recap - I go searching for the lost temple
• Targeting the Young (and Single?) Voter
• Tawian Temples, Towers, Strange Foods and More
• Team "No Runner Left Behind" Beats the Bridge
• Techcrunch Crashes
• Technology Finally Slows Down the Rockies
• Thanks SMC Folks
• Thanks UW CIE
• Thanks to all the Folks at the SVC
• The 4 Chord Song
• The Battle of Shareholder Value vs Environmental Concern
• The Best Seat in Pro Sports
• The Best Seattle Sports Day Since.....When?
• The Best of Guerilla Marketing
• The Cure For Local News... No Anchors?
• The Danger Side of Decentralizing Your Campaign Supporters
• The Eventual Death of the Airport Magazine Stand
• The Fight to Keep the Sonics - A Hero Emerges
• The Latest Time Killer
• The LeBron Contest - YouTube Version
• The Marketing Guy's Worst Nightmare
• The New Medium for Soap Operas - Twitter
• The New Meme in Web Comedy
• The Ocala (FL) School District is Run By Nut Jobs
• The Oddest, Most Uninterpretable, Top 50 List Ever Created
• The Official End of Time Magazine Being a Credible Source of Information
• The Problem With the US Economy, Explained in One Question on Yahoo Answers
• The Question No One is Asking About the iPad
• The Search for Jim Gray Continues
• The Story of An Underperforming Campaign
• The Sustainable Group
• The Upcoming Battle Between Obama and Hillary Supporters
• Things To Expect When You Do A Satellite TV Interview
• Thinking About Charlie Davies
• This Company has a Marketing Budget
• This Looks Interesting
• This Negative Election Has Finally Defeated Me
• This is How You Blow Up a Building
• This is Why I Love British Newspapers
• Thoughts on Unemployment in Today's Environment
• TixMob Launches in UK - New Way to Buy Tickets for Events
• Tragedy at V-Tech; Facebook Emerges as Vital Communication Tool
• Tumri
• Tunnel, Schmunnel. China Envisions Buses that Drive Over Cars
• Turbo Tax YouTube Comedy Contest
• Turning Lemons into Lemonade - The Antoine Dodson Story
• TweetCongress
• Twitter recognition of Fall of the Berlin Wall
• Two Useful Chotchkes
• U.S. 2 - Spain 0
• U.S. Search Engines Have New Pot Hole in Dance With China
• Unveiling the Sixth Sense (From TED)
• User Experience Vs Revenue in a Socially Networked World
• Using Social Media to Manage Public Opinion
• Viewzi - Cool Little Search Engine Toy
• Viral Spiraling Out of Control
• WSA and Zango - Seems like an odd combination
• Walk Now, for Cure Autism Now
• Wall Street Journal Scoop - Agencies are Offshoring Creative
• Want a real longshot? Bet on Obama to Coach English Football...
• Watch Great Soccer - Support Seattle's All Nations Cup
• Watching MLS for the First Time
• We Interrupt This Week For.....Jury Duty
• Web 2.0 Quiz
• Welcome to Fall, Where The Tech Industry has Forever Changed
• What $20k gets you at Amazon.com
• What Does "No Comment" Really Mean?
• What Does It Mean that Don Fehr is Retiring?
• What Does Oprah on Twitter Mean for Social Media
• What Ethical Questions Can We Answer For You?
• What If.... Google Hadn't Bought YouTube?
• What is Happening at Qwest Field July 4?
• What's Your Talent
• When Does Something Stop Being A Start-up
• When Mascots Attack....
• When Social Media Goes Meta
• When You Start to Believe We Are Not Surrounded By Lunatics, Please Refer Back Here
• Where is news on the Google China Tax Evasion story?
• Which Olympic Athletes Can you be Facebook Friends With?
• Whirlyball
• Whoops Marketing, or "Watch Your Acronyms"
• Why 30+ Year Olds Have More Fun on Facebook than Our Junior Counterparts
• Why Baseball Gloves are More Reliable than Boyfriends
• Why I Joined the "I Hate the Oklahoma City Thunder" Facebook Group
• Why Models Don't Run PR Agencies
• Why Not a Yo-Yo Clip?
• Why TV Producers Don't Build Airplanes
• Why You Can't Predict Viral
• Why are Some Dog Owners so Dumb?
• Why the MLS Will Be HUGE in Seattle
• Why the U.S. May Not Qualify for the 2012 Olympics in Basketball
• Wikipedia vs Joe Wilson
• Wild MLS Finish
• Will they or Won't They? And Waht is the Effect of Widespread MSFT "Cutbacks"
• World Cup Just 2 Weeks Away - Join the American Outlaws @ Neumo's
• World Cup Review, Round 1
• World Cup Review, Round 2
• Worst Band in the World
• Your City Council at Work
• Your Latest Ad Spending Stats
• eTrade Baby "Outtakes"
• mpire Politics Widget
• social3i Launches - The next great adventure