Marketing Message: Keeping it short snappy and to the point

It used to be the 30 second commerical. Then it went to 15 second commercials. Now it's 140 characters in Twitter. When someone asks, "what do you do? can you anwer in 140 powerful characters? I'm still working on my 140 characters, but please share your statement in the comments below.

I got this idea following the Twitter contest. Copyblogger sponsored a contest for the best Twitter stories. I was amazed at the depth and emotion in some of them. Now that's a short story!

Ron Gould was the first place winner. Here's a link to the winners and a link to all of the 331 entries.

I didn't get my entry in, so here it is -- it's a love story:

Once upon a time they fell in love. Had a misunderstanding. Shed a few tears. Reconsidered. Made up. Now they’re living happily ever after.