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NYHRC Celebrates 40 Years of Advancing Fitness


Gothamist

New York Health & Racquet Club (NYHRC) put fitness on the map in NYC when it first opened its doors in 1973. Now, of course, New Yorkers have more exercise options than NYC has pizza joints. Yet they keep coming back to NYHRC, the original NYC health club, where they feel part of a tight-knit community of health-conscious people in pursuit of fitness and vitality.

At any of NYHRC’s nine Manhattan locations, virtually any fitness need or interest can be met, whether on your own and taking advantage of the well-equipped gym floor, or with the guidance of seasoned group fitness instructors and certified personal trainers.

NYHRC is truly in a class by itself, with amenities you won’t find at many other health clubs, including saltwater pools, squash and racquetball courts, basketball courts, a beach club and a yacht, perfect for beautiful sunset cruises around Manhattan.*

NYHRC has flourished for 40 years because it puts its members first. That commitment remains strong as NYHRC celebrates its 40th anniversary this month. Come experience all the clubs have to offer during NYHRC’s open house event on Tuesday, September 24th.

*Not all services available at all locations. Racquet sports, beach club and yacht require an additional fee.

Read the full release here.

Every Touchpoint Matters.


Just wrote the welcome message for our DiMassimo Goldstein employee Intranet. Thought I’d share:

Welcome to the Growth Agency Network.

If you only remember three words, remember these: EVERY TOUCHPOINT MATTERS

In the center of you there is a double helix of DNA that sets in motion who you become. Clip a fingernail and this same code is there.

In the center of every experience is the truth of the brand. If the reception desk is boring, the brand is boring. If the invoice has no charm, the brand has no charm.

An inspiring receipt. A stylish notepad. A creative collection letter. A box with spots. A one-page owners manual.

Empires have been built on such small things as these.

If it is, it is a part of the brand.

Brand. Driven. Growth. That’s four, five and six. That’s how we do it.

Banner, hang-tag, balloon. Truck to television commercial. If we can do it, we can make it deliver the brand.

Here we tend to these individuals we call brands. We grow and evolve them. And we can tell you what is in the fingernail, before you clip it.

And now, that’s you.

Welcome to the Growth Agency Network.

Welcome to DiMassimo Goldstein.

DiMassimo Goldstein Wins L’Auberge

MediaPost News, By Amy Corr
Pinnacle Entertainment has selected DiMassimo Goldstein as AOR for its L’Auberge branded casinos in Lake Charles and Baton Rouge, LA. The agency is charged with developing and implementing an overarching brand strategy and bringing a new campaign to market including advertising, direct, digital, social, design and media planning and buying.

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Hamburglar, Spuds, the Colonel retire as fast food grows up.


Martha White, CNBC.com

Oh, where are the brand mascots of yesteryear? The Quisps, the Hamburglars, the Colonels who tweaked our fancy and tickled our tastebuds?

It seems like almost every day, the brand images many Americans grew up with are being shelved.

The latest victim could be the string-tie wearing symbol of KFC, Colonel Sanders. Although he got a face-lift back in 2006, the Colonel Sanders logo edged closer to retirement this week as the KFC brand rolled out a new restaurant concept, KFC eleven, without the Colonel’s goateed visage accompanying it.

Read the full article here.

We Meet The Enemy On The Social Web.

I was starting to feel I was un-shockable. Working in advertising with lots of young-creative-wired people, I see just about everything, or at least I thought I did.

And then today I discovered Ana. Also known as the Pro Ana movement. Or Proana.

Ana is a global community committed to supporting and encouraging anorexics in their achievement of ever more harrowing weight loss goals.
I’m shocked. And I’m shocked that I’m shocked.

What’s next, Pro-Dep, for people who want to be more depressed? Is there a Pro-OCD community? If so, I don’t want to read the comments!

How about a Pro-IBS community? Could I troll the message boards to figure out what I’d have to eat to shit pure liquid 100% of the time?

OK, I’ve tried humor as a coping mechanism, but the shock hasn’t worn off.

People die of anorexia nervosa and other eating disorders. These are compulsive behaviors that girls and young women , mostly but not exclusively, use to remain unconscious of what would be rather harrowing emotions if they felt them. It’s a viciously circular death spiral if ever there was one. I have known young, promising woman who have died of this. I knew one woman whose heart was so badly damaged that a half a beer would throw her into unwakeable state. Anorexia is serious, insidious and intractable. I have worked – as a humble intern – along side doctors, nurses and social workers who were fighting valiantly against this killer. I have seen how hard won is the little bit of progress they sometimes achieve. And I have seen the slips and the losses too.

So, to find that in addition to all the internal hardness of anorexia is now added a ready social support system, in short to find that the murderer has committed, connected allies all over the world… well, I am just shocked!

I, who have been saying that it’s a social world for nearly a decade. I ,who write here and elsewhere regularly about how the social web changes everything. I have finally been caught off guard. And I’m disgusted. And, admittedly, intrigued.

The personal is now social.

We need to meet the enemy on the field of battle, which is now the social web. If the disease has a social support system, then the cure must have an even more powerful social support network.

The battle lines are drawn.

Let’s fight, socially.

Best In Show – TradeStation

Growth Key: We can own substance in a world of flash, but in the end, the proof is in the platform.

The category of online trading has no shortage of flash and swagger. Everyone is making similar claims, causing noise and clutter. Our competitors were outspending us 10 – 1. We needed to change the game and the way we use TV by getting people to take our tour and see the TradeStation difference for themselves.

Our multimedia campaign won Consumer Retail Best in Show at the 2013 Annual Financial Communications Society Portfolio Awards.

The 19th annual Financial Communications Society Portfolio Awards recognized last year’s most creative and innovative financial PR, advertising, collateral, and digital media efforts. More than 450 guests attended the event last Thursday at Terminal 5 in Manhattan.

Five “Best in Show” award winners featured a mobile technology solution, app, or multimedia campaign that incorporated social media and the web into more traditional communications efforts.

Pictured: Mark DiMassimo, CEO of DiMassimo Goldstein, and Erik Jepson, CMO at TradeStation, who won Consumer Retail Best In Show for TradeStation’s multimedia campaign “The Proof is in the Platform” created by DiMassimo Goldstein

A few social media highlights to start your week…


Here is the Social Media Update for the week.

1. Instagram Video Don’t Make Me Love You

Instagram has launched a new video option similar to Vines. This will create competition for Twitter’s Vine app. Instagram is ahead of the game, they smartly avoided many of Vine’s initial missteps like leaving out hashtag and front-facing camera support. They also included filters for the videos and longer video durations.

2. Report: Facebook Working on a Flipboard-Like News Reader

3. Branch Launches Potluck, a Stress-Free Social Network

4. Snapchat Introduced SnapKidz for Users Under 13

5. Instagram Gets Video and Other Top Comments

6. Jim Beam Thinks Twitter’s ‘Amplify TV’ Will Better Ad Copy

7. Twitter’s Future: Commerce, Diner Reservations and More TV Tie-Ins

8.Viral Content

Nik Wallenda Survives Insane Grand Canyon Tightrope Crossing

A Chance to See Saturn, For the First Time in 7 Years

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A few social media highlights to start your week…


Here is the social media update for the week!

1. Why Google Wanted Waze

2. Turtle Wax’s 7% Twitter Engagement Rate Highlights Social Strategy

3. How Does Superman Shave? Gillette Asks Some Supergeeks Who Might Know

4. Electric Car, Powered By Social Media, Rolls Across the USA

5. Apple Announces This Year’s Design Awards Winners

6. The Marketer’s Guide to Reaching Millennials

7. Hashtags in Bathrooms? CMT Displays #CMTawards Above Toilets

8. Viral Content:

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