Yearly Archives: 2009

Foodservice Conference & Exposition July 24-26

PMA Foodservice Conference & Exposition July 24-26, 2009 Monterey, CA The PMA Foodservice Conference & Exposition is the only event focused exclusively on fresh produce in foodservice and is widely rated by attendees as one of the industry’s best values … Continue reading

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Getting Creative In A Recession

By Ellen Curtis, Creative Commander If times ever warranted putting the ol’ noggin into overdrive, this is it. At all the agencies that I ever worked at the common “Don’t outspend, out-think.” saying was tossed about liberally at client meetings. … Continue reading

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Rosies Workwear For Women – New Website

Whizbang worked with Rosies Coveralls to create a website for them with an integrated shopping cart, so that women from all over the world can order Rosies coveralls and overalls from the convenience of their home. The website also features … Continue reading

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California International Choral Festival – Event Brochure

Whizbang helped The California International Choral Festival with their event materials back in 2007. After a sold-out opening performance, Whizbang has been designing the event brochure ever since. The annual festival features choirs from all over the world and has … Continue reading

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The Cost of Advertising

By Ellen Curtis, Creative Commander What costs more; an unexpected ad or a straightforward ad? Hint: this is sort of a trick question. From a creative development viewpoint, both ads take about the same time to create. Research needs to … Continue reading

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Introducing Our New Division – Recipe

Whizbang is very excited to announce the launch of Recipe, our food and beverage division.  We noticed many food and beverage companies have very small marketing or no marketing departments at all. This is especially true of specialty companies. At … Continue reading

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Where’s The Whizbanger?

The last two months saw Whizbangers speaking at several events. Jessica Gibbons and Cary Conrady made the college circuit speaking at both Cal Poly and Cuesta College. Frank and Ellen spoke to business owners at Starr Hall’s Marketing Bootcamp, a … Continue reading

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Whizbang to help EOC become Community Action Partnership

As you may have read in The Tribune this month, The Economic Opportunity Commission of San Luis Obispo has changed its name to the Community Action Partnership of San Luis Obispo County Inc. Known as the EOC since 1965, the … Continue reading

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Local Marketing Firm Acquires 2 Point Media

April 1, 2009 – SAN LUIS OBISPO, California – Whizbang, a marketing agency based in San Luis Obispo announced the acquisition of 2 Point Media as of April 1st, 2009. “We are so excited about expanding our agency’s services for … Continue reading

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On The “Green” Movement

If I see one more business shamelessly exploiting the "green" movement, I'll kick myself in the head. Just this Sunday, I saw a full page ad for the Dell GO GREEN SALES EVENT, which, to my point, had nothing at … Continue reading

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