Grateful Dead | Minter Dial

Grateful Marketing Lessons : A Dead Show Is Not A Concert, It’s An Experience

by Minter Dial | Sep 25, 2010 | Branding

A book I wish I had written! “Marketing Lessons from the Grateful Dead” (Amazon). Talk about a book that I wish I had written. As a long time fan of the Dead (“Deadhead”) and a travelling businessman, I feel like my involvement with the Dead...

Startup Insights From The Grateful Dead

by Minter Dial | Aug 14, 2010 | Branding, Entertainment

Check out this website I found at onstartups.com: Startup Insights From The Grateful Dead An article written by Brian Halligan, co-author along with David Meerman Scott of Marketing Lessons of the Grateful Dead.

Marketing is DEAD… even in Dutch

by Minter Dial | Apr 19, 2010 | Marketing

I came across this Dutch presentation courtesy of a post at Molenaar Online Marketing. It is a Slideshare presentation with the feature message that Marketing is D.E.A.D. With my particular passion for the Grateful Dead, I found the link far too curious not to pursue....

The Dead played at the Obama Inauguration

by Minter Dial | Mar 18, 2009 | Entertainment, Politics

It took a little bit of exploration on dead.net and Rolling Stone to find out — substantially after the fact — that the [revised Grateful] Dead played for Obama in the Mid-Atlantic inaugural ball (20 Jan 2009). No one I know was in attendance or perhaps...

An alter ego – The Dials on Vinyl

by Minter Dial | May 18, 2008 | Entertainment

Ever get the feeling you missed out on something in life with the career that you chose? Well, I have always enjoyed a few passions on the side, including writing and music. If I were to have created a band, I think to myself, what band would that have been? What name...