Never a Lack of Ideas

Quack Attack Peabody Hotels around the country have an awesome tradition: every day, each hotel features a duck parade in which a group of ducks waddle down a red carpet and into an indoor fountain, where they stay throughout the day. At the end of the day, the ducks waddle back across the red carpet and into their nighttime quarters. A Duck Master leads the ducks both ways. Crowds always gather to watch the parade and kids love it. My lovely wife recently witnessed the Peabody Duck March, as it's officially called, at the Orlando Peabody Hotel and shot the short video above. Duck, Duck, Goose The Duck March is a great example of a brand doing something fun and quirky over and over — so much, so, that the hotel is known for this tradition. It provides guests with something to tell their friends and if you look on YouTube you'll see hundreds of videos of it. The Internet didn't exist when the folks at the Peabody Memphis Hotel dreamed up the Duck March, but now it he...

My blog was featured in our local newspaper's Blog Log this month. I'd like to thank Jasmine Young for writing an excellent article and representing my blog well. Here's an excerpt of the article and a link to the entire story: Blog Log: Never a Lack of Ideas, by Nicholas Scarpino by Jasmine Young For The Sun | June 27, 2012 Since college, Nicholas Scarpino, 30, always had a passion for marketing. Now as a Senior Account Planner at Google's Chicago office, he constantly has a flurry of marketing ideas flooding his brain. Three years ago, Scarpino decided to begin his blog "Never a Lack of Ideas" to pin down his thoughts. "Blogging is a creative outlet for all the marketing ideas I have in my head that I can't directly apply to my job," Scarpino said. "I blog about any really cool marketing strategies that I already see in existence ... and I also write about ideas that I came up with on my own." Scarpino's most popular ...