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Yearly Archives: 2009
2009.11.29 – 10:51 pm
United Way Employee Campaign 2009 Results
A quick recap of the money raised from our 2009 United Way Employee Campaign: we topped our goal of $1,500.00 and raised a total of $1,677.75.
Way to go, team!
A big thank you to everyone who participated, to Max’s Donuts for the delicious donuts—the smell of their donuts wafts towards our office quite regularly—and to Karen [...]
2009.11.27 – 11:31 am
Cookin’ for a Cause II: Lasagne
I learned two very important things this week:
The guys at Hot Tomali have very ravenous appetites, and
Making two pans of lasagne in one go is a real pain in the ass.
At the end of October, I created a team and convinced the boys of Hot Tomali to grow moustaches in the name of prostate cancer. [...]
2009.11.11 – 11:30 am
The Ode of Remembrance
They went with songs to the battle, they were young.
Straight of limb, true of eyes, steady and aglow.
They were staunch to the end against odds uncounted,
They fell with their faces to the foe.
They shall grow not old, as we that are left grow old:
Age shall not weary them, nor the years condemn.
At the going down [...]
2009.11.05 – 12:24 pm
Hot Tomali Presents *A Movember to Remember*
November 1st has marked the beginning of this year’s Movember!
For those of you who don’t know, Movember is an annual, month-long campaign that celebrates the moustache, with the goal of raising funds for men’s health—specifically, prostate cancer. Every November 1st, clean-shaven men grow a moustache all month long, garnering support from friends and family in [...]
2009.10.26 – 1:52 pm
Some New Halloween Costume Ideas from Hot Tomali
Halloween is on its way, and we’ve been relentlessly searching the web for some great costume inspiration.
So far, we’ve found stuff like transformers.
TIE Fighters.
Crayons, if you have a horse.
iPhones!
Glow in the dark stickpeople.
Disabled superheroes.
Birth.
Controversial illegal aliens.
And animal cruelty.
But what about costumes designed for those in the marketing industry? Costumes for the social media enthusiasts, the [...]
2009.10.16 – 2:27 pm
Cookin’ for a Cause
When the office cries for a chili luncheon, they come crying to me. And knowing that the chili bowls in the office would be full for a good cause, I didn’t have a difficult time stepping up to the plate.
On Friday afternoon, as part of Hot Tomali’s commitment to United Way, we all took a [...]
2009.10.12 – 9:42 am
Google makes it simpler for local businesses to advertise
With the goal of simplifying Google’s standard search advertising model, Google announced that they would begin testing a new fixed pricing system, which is a model much more familiar to local businesses.
Essentially, whether you’re a hair salon, car dealership, or restaurant – for a fixed monthly fee, you will be able to place an ad [...]
2009.10.02 – 6:19 pm
A Place to Call Headquarters
On June 15th Hot Tomali officially moved into our own building at 1441 E Pender St. This move was a big step for the little agency that I started in the living room of a one bedroom West End apartment in the summer of 1998. Since then, we’ve upgraded our work spaces a few times [...]
2009.09.28 – 3:17 pm
Patience is a virtue…
Every six months or so I come back to this video and watch it from start to finish two or three times in a row. Not only am I partial to the art form, but also I am fascinated by the amount of patience the artist was able to summon to complete this artistic feat. [...]
