marketing
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StartupBus community is about to get much larger
Last February my friend Julie brought to my attention this article on TechCrunch about this 48-hour hackathon on a bus, known as StartupBus. Of course I signed up, as the idea passed my personal threshold of “crazy enough to fly across the country”. Within just a couple of weeks from signing up for the StartupBus 2010 I…
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http://static.slidesharecdn.com/swf/ssplayer2.swf?doc=2f100thingstowatchin2011-101222142649-phpapp02&stripped_title=2f-100-things-to-watch-in-2011-6306251&userName=jwtintelligence Things to Watch in 2011 A 100-item laundry list of predictions of what will be popular in tech for the year 2011. There are some interesting trends emerging. Many items in that list are predicting a significant trend of technologies merging and going mainstream. Take for example Facebook’s growing ability to provide value to…
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I am a member of Life Time Fitness and periodically they send me emails from the club. It’s a national company so they have multiple locations across the US and about 5 branches in Chicago area. I used to just trash them, but over time I began to open more of them. Why? Primarily because…
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What can you learn from AT&T? I got 3 of these emails from AT&T “inviting” me to checkout their newest stores. First, none of these stores are near me. Second, it’s silly to send individual email to customer informing him about their each newest store. Just include all applicable “nearby” stores in the same email. …
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Hello America’s spelling bee champ! KFC here on Chicago’s Wabash Ave. Apparently if you buy food there, you become their “rest room”. Kentucky Fu*%#ing Chicken 🙂 …and i thought that nowadays even janitors have college degrees. If I owned this store I would fire the manager yesterday.
