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This is one of the clearest examples I have ever run across for how to alienate consumers, courtesy of Macy’s Department Store. Here’s how to go about torpedoing your own brand: give false information when selling the card idea to the consumer in your store (untrained staff) don’t provide world-standard payment methods online in your [...]
These are a few of my favorite things… in case anyone is looking long-range at Christmas gifts for the geek in YOUR life. SCOTTEVEST/SeV What an innovative company. SCOTTEVEST dubs itself as “Travel Clothing for the Trip of Your Life” and offers a range of gear from long & short sleeve ts, polo shirts, Q-Zip [...]
I’ve used two companies pretty much exclusively in 10 years of business, and am exploring expanding into reselling hosting direct to my customers rather than simply referring them as I currently do. It would eliminate one particularly annoying delay in new account setups and give me global access to help customers instantly, rather than having [...]
I’ve only had the iPhone 4 for about a month and already I’m wanting to hop over the fence to check out that hyper-green grass, and this baby’s still only in idea mode: the Seabird concept phone. What I like most: the dongle-as-mouse the full surface window the dual pico projectors for overhead display and [...]
Further advancing my argument that the next generation of Internet users have already broken the sound barrier passing us into the stratosphere comes an instructional blog post on WordPress blogging from precocious (there, spell that, kid) Malaysian blogger Gloson Teh, pictured here. Gloson began blogging at eight years old, since he was already designing web [...]
Check out Fiverr.com, where the concept is you can buy services or products (or offer them) for a straight $5. You can also post an offer to pay $5 for the service or product of your choice. There are some standard offerings – to get twitter followers, create youtube videos, make a video testimonial for [...]
I’m going to share a story with you about an interesting company with a fantastic product… and a business-killing marketing and fulfillment side that is keeping them from being a great company. Then I’ll give you 6 tips you can use to avoid repeating these sadly common mistakes. Over the holiday season, I made a [...]
Wow, I’m pumped. I haven’t forayed into Internet radio for quite a long time, ever since I bored myself to tears listening to the same stuff over and over with live365.com – which incidentally cost me $4.95 USD a month. Once I’d topped up on it to the point of overflow I went away from [...]
