6PM Marketing

Top Summer App Picks!

summer-iphone-appsDaniel Billinkoff
Copywriter / Coordinator
6P Marketing


It’s summer 2010, which means the sun is shining (or the rain is pouring), and the Apple iPhone is huge. Once you pick one up (if you ever find one), what are you going to do with it? 

Although it does have a phone, sort of, it’s the Apps that truly make the iPhone amazing. Here are 7 summer iPhone / iPod Touch apps I recommend to new and old users alike.


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Creative/Design

The Power of Song – Wave Your Flag

Paul Provost
Principal
6P Marketing

  • Do you ever catch yourself singing in your car on your way to work?
  • Ever cried watching a commercial?
  • If you look around your office, do you hear music playing or see people connected to their iPods?
Music is a powerful device. flag-south-africa

Music can bring sadness, happiness, anger, sexual tension, nostalgia and/or an insatiable desire to dance or sing in the most unnatural of places (like your car on your way to work). People often connect popular music with certain events in their lives. For example, I remember the song that played during the final dance at my high school prom. I remember the first songs my sons sang along to.

For the past few weeks, I’ve been humming, singing and dancing to one song. It’s a song that is simply fun, positive and uplifting. This song has also infected those are around me. I send my kids to school humming it and catch myself singing portions of it throughout the day. If you can’t tell… I really like this song.

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Music

Tony Scherman: A Major Acquisition

At the WAG January 9, 2010 to March 14, 2010

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Tony Scherman is one of the most provocative contemporary practitioners of encaustic painting in Canada. Until recently the WAG held only a single representation of his work, but in 2009
Scherman graciously donated eleven impressive paintings spanning his entire career.

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Local Art

Super Cool Ad

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The Boston Globe - 2009 in Photos

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Creative/Design

AllMusic's Favourite Albums of 2009

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Music

Honda: The Most Expensive Ad Ever

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BMW: The Hire Series - Ticker

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Effective Twitter Backgrounds: Examples and Current Practices

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Creative/Design

10 Secrets to More Magnetic Copy

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By: Jason Cohen, Copyblogger

Whether it’s a cover letter for your resume, a sales pitch to a client, a blog post, a Twitter tweet, or an internal business proposal, all of us need to write in a way that draws the reader closer to us.

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Writing

Best Ads featuring Santa Claus

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The Annual Pitchfork Top 50

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Music

Richard Harrington: Arctic Photographer

At the WAG November 28, 2009 to March 14, 2010


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Richard Harrington (1911–2005) was one of Canada’s most respected photographers. Emigrating from Germany in the mid-1920s, he travelled to over 100 countries in the course of his career: some 2,400 photograph stories were published in magazines and 24 books. In 1987 a major exhibition of his photographs, Incredible Journeys, was held at the Canadian Museum of Photography in Toronto.

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Local Art

The Art of the Paragraph

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By: Jon Morrow

Anyone can write a paragraph, but not everyone knows how to write one that other people want to read.

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Writing

Great Marketing Quotes

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"Good branding without a good business plan is like prettying up a duck with no feathers.  It may look good but it ain't gonna fly."  Paul Provost, August 2010

“For a business not to advertise is like winking at a girl in the dark. You know what you are doing but no one else does.” Stuartt H. Britt, US advertising consultant

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