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Here’s to wishing you all a GREAT holiday season, filled with food, fun and family.

2009 has been a great year filled with many blessings for us, and we are happy to have had you be a part of it.

Enjoy this time, and let’s make 2010 a very prosperous one!

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We’ve been hard at work, with one of our favorite clients, Advent Visual. We’ve been fortunate to work with them on all levels of their companies identity and marketing plans and we are just about to wrap up their website redesign! Not only are we excited to launch it, but we are more excited about Advent Visual’s excitement over their new look!

hit the jump for a sneakpeek of their new site.

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Just wanted to give a quick recap and a HUGE THANK YOU to everybody that made it out to the #NOCtweetup on Saturday, June 13th. The venue over at Cantina Lounge (@cantina_lounge) was perfect. Food, drinks, and endless amounts of chips and salsa were consumed by all 30+ people in attendance. We were also happy to give out 6 prizes donated by some wonderful people who supported this event. Pictures can be found on our Facebook fan page and also here at our good friend Henie’s blog. Hit the jump for a complete list of all those in attendance in addition to the donors!

We are already looking forward to the next tweetup and hope to meet more great tweeps!

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My good friend and super-entrepreneur @incipio_andy shot me a message giving me the ominous blessingus (it’s Latin, look it up) to give away some FREE Incipio gear to my fellow Inbound Marketing Summit ‘09 attendees.

Please answer the following to determine eligibility (it’s not a tough test, just do it):
-Are you alive?
-Are you at IMS ‘09?
-Do you have a Blackberry, iPhone, iPod, or Zune?
-Do you love Mobo Media (lie to me!!!)?

If you answered “yes” to all of the questions you can get a free case for your gadget of choice!!! Leave a comment, come find me, and introduce yourself via hand shake, fist bump aka knuckles, or high five. I look forward to meeting you!!!

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I was more than happy to particpate for in the March for Babies this past Sunday in Newport Beach. This was the second time I’ve participated in this great event, which benefits pre-mature babies and their families, to ensure we all grow up healthy and strong. It’s a great reason to get out, talk to people, help out a great cause, and enjoy a beautiful Sunday morning walking around Newport Beach.

I participated in the 5.5 mile walk along with Team Triumph, with whom I walked last year. Chris Soden, Jayson Aquino, and Juan Varela, college friends of mine who decided on a whim to do this event last year. We had such a great time that we knew we wanted to do it again last year. The team was able to raise the $1200 goal set before the race which was a large but clearly attainable amount of money.

If you haven’t had a chance to participate in this type of event, you really should consider it. It doesn’t matter what the cause, whether it be breast cancer, diabetes, or pre-mature babies, grab some friends, take one day out of your weekend and spend it helping and supporting those that need it.

Hit the jump for some pictures of the event, and stay tuned for some video interviews with some of the walkers!

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Just a short vid showing Michael Bay and who I believe is his publicist or agent (feel free to correct me; I’m referring to the blonde women walking next to him) arriving at the LG exhibit at CTIA 2009.  Michael was in Vegas for Showest and stopped by the LG exhibit to talk about the relationship between LG and Transformers 2 and hype up the movie a bit.  Michael strolled through the exhibit, shook hands, and seemed like a pretty nice guy even asking an onlooker if he wanted to take a photograph with him (the onlooker had been snapping photos of Michael prompting the offer).  Look him up on IMDB or click on the Michael Bay link on my previous post for more info.

Hey folks, just a quick note to let you guys know that I was MIA the last few days due to CTIA.  Hopefully many of you caught the tweets on the site or via your favorite Twitter reader (Tweetdeck, ehem!).  I had a great time at the convention, saw some cool new wireless products (primarily apps and tech, not so much coolness going on with handhelds), and made some great new friends.  Big thanks at to Andy Fathollahi (@incipio_andy), President of Incipio, for taking care of me at the show.  He and his team are awesome and I’m so fortunate to be working with them.

Anyway, Justin aka @bigheadasian and I have been super busy and we’ll be showing off some of our new work soon.  In the mean time, peruse our site, follow us on Twitter (I’m @mobomedia), and check us out on YouTube (search: Mobo Media).

Take care and have an awesome week!

In a time of outsourcing, recordings, and e-commerce galore, many people–including myself–have become disenfranchised with the lack of customer service that has now become the standard.  Maybe I’m old fashion but I believe that the every day consumer likes some type of P2P interaction.  Moreover, existing and potential customers want to know that the they business they’re supporting understands their needs, desires, concerns, all while being made to feel like more than a floating dollar sign set adrift in the sea of capitalism.  Why else would social media and relationship marketing be on the rise while traditional “push” marketing be in decline.  Yeah, yeah, yeah, it’s more “cost effective” and generates “warm leads”.  I understand all of that but folks, it’s all about relationships and the golden rule is more relevant than ever.  Here it is for those of you have forgotten it:  “Do unto others as you would have them do unto you.”

This is a prelude to an article I’ll be posting soon on the extremely positive experience I had with Christy and her team at the CarMax Service Department in Costa Mesa, CA.  I’ll try to highlight the things that CarMax did/does to ensure their customers walk away happy, provide referrals, and return when their vehicles need servicing.  You readers can throw it in your kit bags.

In the interim, please send me personal stories about both good and bad customer service experiences.  BE BOLD. Call the companies out; maybe they’re unaware of their bad practices or maybe it’s a rogue store that needs to be brought back to the fold.  If a business is going above and beyond like CarMax then they and their employees should be recognized as well.

Stay tuned peeps and I look forward to your feedback.