"Hodgie" Brings the World's Advertising Home.

Grab your boda bag, computer shades, sunscreen, and your recliner. Mad Ad Live is road tripping!

Have you ever visited Bangkok, Thailand, Ecuador, Finland, Budapest, Hungary, Brussels, Belgium, and Moscow, Russia? You’re now saying to yourself, self, maybe not this year. The kid’s Piggy Bank has been, well, uh, reallocated to the stimulus package? No problem! Mad Ad Live will be sending one of our best Media Advertising Advocates to these exotic locations starting March 15th!

Hodgie, our card carrying Media Advertising Advocate will be covering all the best contests, stores, and advertising experiences from each country, all from the consumer’s point of view. Hey, after all media advertising is created for all us consumers, right? Why not enjoy it!

Enter our blog house, blog in, let us know, where Hodgie should go, what amazing advertising stunts should he show us? What questions should he ask the public while videotaping at each location? This is all up to you!

Hurry sign up for the Mad Ad blog today. Your advertising “Tour de Hodgie” starts March 15th, don’t be late and miss a product give away!
March 15th - 19th Bangkok, Thailand

May 12th - 15th: Equador

May 16th - 20th: Finland

May 24th though the 28th: Budapest, Hungary

June 9th through the 13th: Brussels, Belgium

July 3rd - 6th: Moscow, Russia

September 1st: Los Angeles, USA, Mad Ad Live Store Grand Opening!

Have you ever had an idea for a product? No, I’m not talking about a do it yourself hair cut machine, or one of those slicer dicer things you see on infomercials. I’m talking about the evolution of marketing… something cutting edge that you know everyone will want or everybody needs and you’ve heard the success stories: a little old lady in Pasadena takes her spaghetti sauce to market, and Bam! …. Now she’s the queen of the Food Network, and a millionaire to boot! A geeky kid plays with computers in his garage and in a short period of time, changes the lives of virtually everyone on the planet. More often then not though, we hear about the failures; an inventor sells their house to finance their product of the century, only to lose everything? All the noise makes all of us big and small a bit skeptical about taking ideas and pumping hard earned dollars into it.

Welcome to the Mad Ad blog house. A new way to talk idea; to chat marketing; to embellish on branding and to wax poetic on what else, the products that effect our lives. Whether you’re an established brand or Uncle Bill working in his garage, we all have our ideas, and we all have limited resources to convince consumers that those ideas are the right ones. That’s what this blog is all about; a location for large and small businesses to discuss their passions and ideas, about the products they create, and about the effect on the bottom line. This is not a commercial pitching zone, rather a community of people to assist others to get their ideas researched, tested, and ultimately into the hands of the people who want them, and need them.

Don’t get me wrong, I know we all want to be successful delivering products with positive experiences to our public and make some cash doing it. This is all in a day’s work in a free enterprise economy. I’m saying; I want this site to be a media advertising advocate location where we can help each other, and watch each of our products grow and mature with influence from our community being involved. I want this site to be a location where smart individuals can communicate and help build the products of the future around the world. You may say: “Hey, that’s pretty bold for a new guy!” And I say; “Are you in! Let’s enjoy the fruits of our labor, and have some fun while assisting others making their marketing dreams come true… giving the world real access to products we can all be proud of. Now, what do you say?