Comments on: Valentines Day Lessons http://www.writingwhitepapers.com/blog/2007/02/14/valentines-day-marketing-lessons/ Everything about writing and marketing white papers Fri, 10 Sep 2010 09:00:45 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.3.1 By: Michael Stelzner http://www.writingwhitepapers.com/blog/2007/02/14/valentines-day-marketing-lessons/#comment-11909 Michael Stelzner Wed, 14 Feb 2007 21:56:45 +0000 http://www.writingwhitepapers.com/blog/2007/02/14/valentines-day-marketing-lessons/#comment-11909 Lisa - Sage advice! Mark - The idea of teaching kids to serve others is a great idea and one I strongly support Debra - What great ideas! Lisa - Sage advice!

Mark - The idea of teaching kids to serve others is a great idea and one I strongly support

Debra - What great ideas!

]]> By: Debra Helwig http://www.writingwhitepapers.com/blog/2007/02/14/valentines-day-marketing-lessons/#comment-11897 Debra Helwig Wed, 14 Feb 2007 20:25:22 +0000 http://www.writingwhitepapers.com/blog/2007/02/14/valentines-day-marketing-lessons/#comment-11897 Hi Mike: We've had such fun with our three year old and Valentine's Day this year! We started last week by going crazy with paper, doilies, paint & glitter to make cards for all the people SHE wanted to remember. It was interesting to see who she chose - some were obvious, like grandparents, and some were not. It was a great view into who she sees as important in her life. Then we made cookies & decorated them (toddlers love sprinking colored sugar!) and will deliver them this afternoon to people in our neighborhood who don't have family in town or who are widowed to "share some love" with them too. It's been lots of fun and a wonderful opportunity to talk about all the different ways we can express love to one another. Today we made heart shaped pancakes for breakfast and cut out her lunch meat turkey with a heart shaped cookie cutter...and served it all on pink plates. It's really all just fun, inexpensive ways to show her that this day is special and that we love her. We've had a ball! Happy Valentine's Day to you and yours. Hi Mike:

We’ve had such fun with our three year old and Valentine’s Day this year! We started last week by going crazy with paper, doilies, paint & glitter to make cards for all the people SHE wanted to remember. It was interesting to see who she chose - some were obvious, like grandparents, and some were not. It was a great view into who she sees as important in her life. Then we made cookies & decorated them (toddlers love sprinking colored sugar!) and will deliver them this afternoon to people in our neighborhood who don’t have family in town or who are widowed to “share some love” with them too. It’s been lots of fun and a wonderful opportunity to talk about all the different ways we can express love to one another. Today we made heart shaped pancakes for breakfast and cut out her lunch meat turkey with a heart shaped cookie cutter…and served it all on pink plates. It’s really all just fun, inexpensive ways to show her that this day is special and that we love her. We’ve had a ball!

Happy Valentine’s Day to you and yours.

]]> By: Mark Mathson http://www.writingwhitepapers.com/blog/2007/02/14/valentines-day-marketing-lessons/#comment-11894 Mark Mathson Wed, 14 Feb 2007 19:55:59 +0000 http://www.writingwhitepapers.com/blog/2007/02/14/valentines-day-marketing-lessons/#comment-11894 Michael- Honestly, I would say a fun and a purposeful way to celebrate Valentines Day with young children is to teach them to give to another person through service, or by writing a nice heart-felt note to another. Teaching them that will give them more satisfaction than anything else. But of course, it has to be something of interest to them. Michael-

Honestly, I would say a fun and a purposeful way to celebrate Valentines Day with young children is to teach them to give to another person through service, or by writing a nice heart-felt note to another. Teaching them that will give them more satisfaction than anything else. But of course, it has to be something of interest to them.

]]> By: Lisa Gates http://www.writingwhitepapers.com/blog/2007/02/14/valentines-day-marketing-lessons/#comment-11877 Lisa Gates Wed, 14 Feb 2007 16:31:18 +0000 http://www.writingwhitepapers.com/blog/2007/02/14/valentines-day-marketing-lessons/#comment-11877 Rolfe, Sayo is spot on (and so is Doc of course). Michael, Often people I work with come with a specific purpose and direction, only to realize that something is broken in some relationship, somewhere. We detour to put together what's broken, and then come back to our purpose. Marketing campaigns? Same. Thanks for the question. Rolfe, Sayo is spot on (and so is Doc of course).

Michael, Often people I work with come with a specific purpose and direction, only to realize that something is broken in some relationship, somewhere. We detour to put together what’s broken, and then come back to our purpose. Marketing campaigns? Same.

Thanks for the question.

]]> By: Michael Stelzner http://www.writingwhitepapers.com/blog/2007/02/14/valentines-day-marketing-lessons/#comment-11866 Michael Stelzner Wed, 14 Feb 2007 14:31:38 +0000 http://www.writingwhitepapers.com/blog/2007/02/14/valentines-day-marketing-lessons/#comment-11866 Rolfe; Great link. Here is an excerpt: "Love, the most giving force in any relationship, is not about exchanging. It is not fungible. You don't expect a payback or a rate of return on the love you give your child, your wife or husband, your friends. Yet relationship has an enormous bearing on the way markets work..." Mike Rolfe;

Great link.

Here is an excerpt: “Love, the most giving force in any relationship, is not about exchanging. It is not fungible. You don’t expect a payback or a rate of return on the love you give your child, your wife or husband, your friends. Yet relationship has an enormous bearing on the way markets work…”

Mike

]]> By: Rolfe Dlugy-Hegwer http://www.writingwhitepapers.com/blog/2007/02/14/valentines-day-marketing-lessons/#comment-11860 Rolfe Dlugy-Hegwer Wed, 14 Feb 2007 13:40:27 +0000 http://www.writingwhitepapers.com/blog/2007/02/14/valentines-day-marketing-lessons/#comment-11860 Expressing an interest, sending small gifts, thinking of someone are all expressions of something deeper than a marketing campaign. They're expressions of a relationship. I highly recommend reading Doc Searl's account of a Socratic exchange he had with a Nigerian pastor named Sayo, http://lists.ssc.com/pipermail/suitwatch/2007-February/000129.html Rolfe Expressing an interest, sending small gifts, thinking of someone are all expressions of something deeper than a marketing campaign. They’re expressions of a relationship.

I highly recommend reading Doc Searl’s account of a Socratic exchange he had with a Nigerian pastor named Sayo, http://lists.ssc.com/pipermail/suitwatch/2007-February/000129.html

Rolfe

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