Bracket Breakers, The Mandela Effect + Changes to Digital Marketing

Every month we like to share business advice with you, make you laugh and show you what we’ve been enjoying this past month. So here are our Loves, Learns and Laughs for March 2017.

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Loves
Bracket madness! We invited all our office mates to join a Bracket Challenge with us. Let’s just say we’re all unhappy about Villanova and Duke losing, well except our Chief Marketing Nerd, Audrey. #goUCLA We love the fun and excitement of March Madness. How’s your bracket holding up?

We can’t help but get excited about some of the new logos we’ve created recently. We love the challenge of expressing a company’s purpose and mission in a simple logo design. If you’re curious what it takes to design a logo, we took a journey into the mind of a designer and recorded the process. Need a new logo? We can help! 

Learns
Did you know there’s a prison in Honduras that’s almost completely run by the inmates? We watched the first episode of “Inside the World’s Toughest Prisons” and were in complete shock. It’s a fascinating system in which violent criminals are put in charge of other violent criminals. This unique prison is full of men wearing jeans and button down shirts. There were even fully operational cafes and stores.

Our minds were blown when we learned about the Mandela Effect -- a phenomenon in which groups of people, even whole societies, remember things incorrectly. It’s named after Nelson Mandela because even before he died a large group of people could recall learning about his death. What else have we mis-remembered? Well, hate to break it to you but Darth Vader never said “Luke, I am your father.” The correct line is “no, I am your father.” Mind. Blown. Discover all the other things you’re remembering wrong here. And a few more…

The digital marketing world is constantly changing and can be hard to keep up. From Twitter to Coupon Sites there have been a lot of changes. This article does a good job of breaking down some key changes in the digital landscape in the past year.

Laughs
We’ve been laughing at the episodes of The Grand Tour on Amazon Prime. Here’s a sneak peek of some of the funniest moments so far. ​