Marketing

Free Dozen Doughnuts at Krispy Kreme for Hero Appreciation Day, April 28

Of all the many, many, many guilty pleasures available to Americans (did we mention there are many?), perhaps none is more widely loved nor more guilty than the Original Glazed Krispy Kreme doughnut. So hot, so moist, so gooey... What were we talking about? Right! Heroes! Heroes are another (les ... More >>

It's Free Cone Day at Ben & Jerry's

And guess what day today is?

Leo Joseph, Editor of Haiti Observateur, Says He'll Fight Defamation Ruling, Stands by Exposé on Haiti's Prime Minister

Following a scathing judgment concerning a defamation lawsuit in Miami court last month barring a prominent Haitian-American journalist, Leo Joseph, from printing the name of the Haitian prime minister, Joseph has vowed to fight the ruling, calling it another manifestation of the politician's corrup ... More >>

The Everglades Need to Go Viral: Five Ads the Park Should Look to for Inspiration (Videos)

​The Everglades has a marketing problem. Earlier this week, officials from the Everglades National Park and the United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization got together for a chat about how to better market the park to lure in tourists. As the Miami Herald reports, during ... More >>

Matisyahu at Kravis Center, December 29

Top Complaints From Floridians to State's Consumer Services Department

inklingmedia.net​Floridians like to complain every once in a while -- like the 45,536 complaints sent by consumers sent to the Florida Department of Agriculture and Consumer Services over the last year.The agency today released a top-10 list of the most consumer complaints that came into their off ... More >>

Spirit Airlines to Charge Fee for Boarding Pass; We Hope Bathrooms Are Still Free

Give us your cash, we'll let you board the plane.​Spirit Airlines, the Miramar-based discount carrier that makes your miserly 83-year-old grandpa look generous, has announced its latest fee: It will now cost five bucks to have a ticket agent print a boarding pass at the airport. And starting next ... More >>

ZED451 Closes in Mizner Park; Cites Economy

ZED451​The economic downturn of 2008 proved insurmountable to ZED451, which closed it doors today in Boca's Mizner Park; that's according to the corporate statement released by their publicist.The restaurant opened in 2008 with a contemporary American rodizio format and a fixed-price menu. Meats w ... More >>

"POM Wonderful Presents: The Greatest Movie Ever Sold" Is Morgan Spurlock's Best Project Yet

Oh, Rique, You’re So Fine

State Probe Into Acreage Cancer Cluster Is Over, but Lawyers Keep On Digging

​For more than a year, concerned families have been looking for answers about a disturbing trend of pediatric tumors and cancers around the Acreage, an unincorporated area between West Palm and Lake Okeechobee.Early this year, the Palm Beach County Health Department confirmed that a "cancer cluste ... More >>

Eat, Pray, Love: The Fort Lauderdale Connection

Dan QuierozFTL: Not "high-minded" enough for Gilbert. ​It was more than three years ago that Eat, Pray, Love, the book about a New York writer getting divorced and traveling the world, dominated the bestseller lists. Just when we thought we had shaken our hate-her-because-we're-jealous feelings fo ... More >>

Bruce Willis Endorses Sobieski Vodka, Distributed From Palm Beach Gardens

flickr: YGXNot pushing wine coolers any more ​The most exciting news in celebrity endorsements -- besides Lindsay Lohan getting paid to tweet shoutouts on her way to the clink -- is coming from the spirits world.  This March, entertainment mogul Sean Combs, AKA Diddy, went around promoting Ci ... More >>

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Will High-Society Boca Couple Keep Their Mansion After Legal Loss?

Photo from BocaResort.comLori and David Keezer in a 2006 issue of Boca Club Life.​Just look at that happy, handsome couple! A May-December romance that surely had little to do with David Keezer's vast wealth. Indeed, Palm Beach County records show that the Keezers' crib in the Royal Palm Yacht &am ... More >>

Do You Really Need a Copywriter?

​The web is full of shady people, with shady sales approaches and tactics. It is hard to go online without being pressured to buy something. Believe it or not, people actually pay "copywriters" to come up with these sleazy sales pitches. After investigating the sector, it's disheartening to s ... More >>

Dalia Dippolito May Have Tried to Kill Him, But Michael Dippolito Is No Saint

Q&A With Jay Berkowitz, South Florida Techrepreneur

​The Boca Raton-based TenGoldenRules.com specializes in business to business (B2B) internet marketing between small, medium, and large businesses.Jay Berkowitz, its founder and CEO, is a true entrepreneur in the internet marketing field. He's promoted such companies as McDonald's and Coca-Cola. In ... More >>

Four Funnies for Friday

“Crank Calling, Yaaaaayy!!”

Cute Is What We Aim For

Sun-Sentinel Pop Up Leads To Pop Off

Publisher Hands Sun-Sentinel News Site Over To Marketer

Calling All Debtors

DeGroot Answers Critics, Offers Story Idea

Sentinel Columnist Kollin Blasts Management

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Pimp My Arena

You may have paid for the BankAtlantic Center, but Donald Trump's rich customers get the keys to it.

If the Schtick Ain't Broken

Don't fix it

Cranked Up

Letters for January 29, 2004

Hang onto Your Check Gramps

Doing Time in the Boiler Room

How to make that "wonderful weekend in Orlando" sound like a month at the Taj Mahal

The Grand Slammer

Crooks abound in the world of long distance. But it takes a really good crook to steal from the other crooks.

Wild, Wild West

Once convicted of fraud and in debt to the IRS for a cool million, Steven West is some kind of businessman

Pulp Nonfiction, Act 2

A good, upstanding American family gets mixed up with the mob

Call Me Now! ...And Pay Me Later

With all the millions Miss Cleo brings in, her Broward-based bosses have little trouble paying their way out of those pesky lawsuits

Grift and Run

The FBI doesn't want you to know about Mel Ruth

Porn To Sell

Product placement comes to adult videos...hey, watch where you put that thing!

The Grift of Gab

Stephen Tashman made a small fortune launching Telecard Dispensing Corporation. If only his investors had been so lucky.

Undercurrents

Cheese Shortage

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