Browsing archives for November, 2009

There is a reason Target gets it right

blog 30 November 2009 | 0 Comments

What is the difference between Wal-Mart and Target? It’s the same difference between Home Depot and Lowes. One has style and the other is generic, boring and like a warehouse. The other has style and even when the prices are the same they have class.
My wife and I were looking for some Christmas lights. [...]

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A Dell of a lot of curiosity

blog 27 November 2009 | 0 Comments

I wonder how many people to go Dell and just test out configurations on computers to see the price. Certainly Dell has these numbers, but its really curious. It probably did that at least 20 times in the last few days. And as an online executive these sorts of statistics interesting me.
I also wonder [...]

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Why the NFL are morons

blog 26 November 2009 | 0 Comments

I’m not sure I totally believe that the NFL are morons; however, those nationally televised games on Thanksgiving sucked. They really sucked.
I’m tired of watching the horrible Lions lose again and again every Thanksgiving. Does anyone see them playing Sunday or Monday night? There is a reason. They suck. And Dallas against the Raiders? [...]

Black Friday deals and who gets it

blog 25 November 2009 | 0 Comments

Wal-Mart, Target, Best Buy and more companies got their Black Friday advertisements out early this year. Rather than waiting until we woke up Thursday morning they got smart and realized that these deals leak anyway–why not get out ahead of the leak.
It worked, people are talking about the deals. Amazon has been running specials [...]

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Why SEO is the most overrated part of internet marketing

blog 24 November 2009 | 0 Comments

Everyone is going on and on about SEO. Sure, search engine marketing is important but its far too overrated. SEO can drive traffic however it does nothing after the fact. SEO doesn’t move visitors through a site. SEO doesn’t convert customers. SEO is as much a buzzword as social media.
The most underrated piece, and [...]

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The Buffalo Bills considering Mike Shanahan–blessing or nightmare?

blog 24 November 2009 | 0 Comments

Everyone is reporting that the Bills are going to drop major cash on Mike Shanahan. As a huge Buffalo Bills fan I’m trying to decide whether this is good or bad news. I’d prefer Bill Cowher but word is that he isn’t interested in the Bills job. I don’t blame him. The team is in [...]

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In-And-Out burger lines them up

blog 21 November 2009 | 0 Comments

Does your business have anything that gets customers lining up outside waiting for you to open? Every time they open a new story people flock there hours before the first burger hits the stove.
Try this exercise. Name the thing your company believes it does best. Then figure out the last time a customer came to [...]

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California Pizza Kitchen can’t take out the onions

blog 19 November 2009 | 0 Comments

The California Pizza Kitchen almost has too much to choose from. It took a good ten minutes to try and work my way through their menu to find something. The most interesting was the Greek pizza. Except I hate onions. So here is where it gets interesting, or uninteresting. The waitress told me that they [...]

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The Walmart Zhu Zhu Pets phenomenon

blog 18 November 2009 | 0 Comments

Every year parents go insane over some product for their kids. The last few years it has been video game systems, but this year we are back to basics. Zhu Zhu Pets have become a phenomenon. Just today people flocked to Walmart near our home to buy some at 7 am as they unloaded. But [...]

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How to start a petting zoo business

blog 17 November 2009 | 0 Comments

Why do over 900 people a day search for “how to start a petting zoo”?
Wouldn’t it be great if there was a search engine that just answered why? It be like a survey tool that just sorted out the who, whats and whys we need to know so many things. Or where you even heard [...]

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