The Borders Shortlist to insignificance

blog 31 March 2010 | 0 Comments

Every few weeks Borders has an email that it sends with decent deals. Usually 20-25% off any book. That is great. But they don’t really understand me at all. Every book I purchase is either a technology or business book. And yet, unlike Netflix, Borders doesn’t know me at all. Today they put these as [...]

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When a company pays its customers back

blog 8 December 2009 | 0 Comments

Amazon Web Services announced today they were reducing prices because they have become so successful. Doesn’t a company usually raise prices when a product becomes extremely successful? Not Amazon. What an amazing lesson that so many companies could learn.
Here is the email they sent out to AWS customers:
“As Amazon S3 has grown, so has [...]

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YouTube can make money or how Amazon kicked YouTube’s ass

blog 8 November 2009 | 0 Comments

I have a thought on YouTube and how they can make money. Why not create YouTube Private where you can use it like Picasa and upload all your family videos with a desktop app where you upload, edit, etc. and then upload it to your YouTube storage place. Charge per Gigabyte of storage and flat [...]

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