Archive for November, 2008
Monday, November 24th, 2008
Scrap metal traders are finding out that a deal's a deal in China - until it's not. The question is, over the long term, will the Chinese adopt our practices or will we adopt theirs? I hope for the former. It's such a shame when someone is willing to sell ...
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Sunday, November 23rd, 2008
I have said before that I think the Q&A facility of LinkedIn is one of its greatest strengths. Here's a recent question asking how to build a better e-zine that is an example of what I mean.
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Friday, November 21st, 2008
I have challenged myself to build an admin panel for my Zen Cart Combination Discounts module. (You can see the original announcement on Twitter from a few days ago.) Stay tuned for more details.
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Thursday, November 20th, 2008
I'm a huge Seth Godin fan, but I had just never gotten around to reading The Dip. But on the strength of Shoemoney's recommendation I grabbed a copy, and thoroughly enjoyed it. To synthesize it in a sentence:
Never quit something with great long term potential just because it's unpleasant right ...
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Tuesday, November 18th, 2008
So Motrin put up this ad which I thought was silly and dopey, but not offensive. Well, I guess I was in the minority, because a lot of people howled. Here's Seth's take - he says their retraction was even more ham-handed than the ad itself.
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Monday, November 17th, 2008
Linda from GetElastic talks about how to build a Twitter search and get the results by RSS. Now that Twitter Search is working reliably, this is exactly how I do it.
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Sunday, November 16th, 2008
I was disappointed to read this review of Nike's return policies in the Wall Street Journal. In this age of Yelping, why aren't companies dealing more effectively with dissatisfied customers?
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Saturday, November 15th, 2008
Interesting story from Network World about Washington State suing an SEO consultancy.
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Friday, November 14th, 2008
Melissa Burdon (who I'm sure has very smooth legs) talks about what improving the likelihood of conversion based on her experience buying leg waxing strips. Thanks, Melissa!
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Wednesday, November 12th, 2008
NPR's MarketPlace had a segment last week about the resurgence of layaway as a payment method. Layaway - which fell out of favor as credit cards gained popularity - is a way to offer no-cost financing to your customers; the only cost to you as a vendor is the bookkeeping ...
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