Category Archives: Advertising, Marketing & Public Relations

Google Search Stories: Ypsilanti’s SolarYpsi Project

February 6, 2012 – 8:27 am

YouTube and Google have a feature called “Search Stories” about people who are using Google’s search to find new ways of doing things. One of the people they profile is Dave Strenski of Ypsilanti, who you can learn more about in the video below. Dave and some like-minded individuals created SolarYpsi in 2005 with the [...]

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Michigan International Auto Show in Grand Rapids – January 26-29, 2012

January 24, 2012 – 2:41 pm

Michigan turns 175 Thursday and Absolute Michigan is giving away a whole bunch of prizes to people on our email list to celebrate! One of the items is 2 tickets to the Auto Show – you can sign up for our list at the bottom of this article. Smile by pairadocs The Michigan International Auto Show returns [...]

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2012 North American International Auto Show

January 12, 2012 – 12:02 pm

The 2012 North American International Auto Show aka the Detroit Auto Show runs January 14-22, 2012 at the Cobo Center in Detroit, Michigan. 2013 Dodge Dart by ChriKett Photography The first Detroit Area Dealer Association (DADA)-managed Detroit Auto Show was held in December 1907 at Riverview Park. In 1987, the show was re-focused as an [...]

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Pure Michigan, Pure Gold?

November 29, 2011 – 8:14 am

Michigan has spent $67 million since 2006 to draw more tourists and tourist dollars to the Great Lakes State through the Pure Michigan campaign. Our friends at Bridge Magazine have taken a very interesting and in-depth look at Pure Michigan. The effort appears to be working, with industry officials & analysts pointing to an additional 2 [...]

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Detroit Design Festival ~ September 21-28, 2011

September 20, 2011 – 10:17 am

The inaugural Detroit Design Festival (DDF) starts tomorrow (Wednesday, Sep 21) with a kickoff party from 6-9 PM at New Center Park. DDF is a “crowd-sourced design festival” developed to showcase the talents and abilities Detroit’s creative community. Over the eight days and nights of DDF—September 21 through September 28—a variety of Design Happenings will take [...]

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Blogs We Dig: 365 Days of A

June 22, 2011 – 9:36 am

Through the TC Ticker, we learned about a cool project by Jonathan Klinger, PR Manager of Michigan based Hagerty Insurance. They begin: For the past eight months, the 29 year old has been driving a 1930 Model A as his everyday car. His project, dubbed “365 Days of A,” has him parking his Ford Explorer and [...]

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Future Midwest Conference this week in Detroit

April 26, 2011 – 10:11 am

Painting A Picture Of Optimism by DetroitDerek Photography Later this week (April 27-29) the 3rd annual  Future Midwest Conference kicks off in Detroit. It’s the largest digital business conference in the Midwest and  seeks to accelerate business and cultural transformation by uniting community passions with emerging technologies. In 2011, they’ve selected Eastern Market in Detroit [...]

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Jeff Daniels to star in Chrysler Emigrated from Escanaba commercials

April 1, 2011 – 8:31 am

Fresh on the heels of the runaway success of their “Imported from Detroit” campaign starring rapper Eminem, Michigan-based Chrysler announced their new U-series heavy trucks will be promoted by Michigan actor Jeff Daniels in the “Emigrated from Escanaba” campaign. Chrysler spokeswoman Anita Thawte explained “Mr.  Daniels has starred in numerous Hollywood films and is well [...]

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Time to Reboot Your Business?

March 30, 2011 – 11:19 am

reboot by TerryJohnston Full Disclosure: I saw these folks in action on the behalf of Absolute Michigan Community sponsor The Center for Michigan and was quite impressed with their work! Birmingham-based agency Brogan & Partners is offering one small business in Michigan the tools and support to reinvent and refresh its brand through the Michigan [...]

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Pure Michigan Facebook: Leading the Nation

March 21, 2011 – 8:31 am

“Winds of Change” Point Betsie Lighthouse by Michigan Nut The Pure Michigan Facebook fan page topped 200,000 fans over the weekend. According to the Street, this makes Pure Michigan one of only four state tourism Facebook pages with more than 100,000 fans and the first state tourism Facebook page with over 200,000 fans: “We could [...]

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