Random Articles

• You Expect What You Pay For Recently - a collegue recounted his experience selling a fully-capable product with a price less than half its competitors. “After the presentation, the customer turned to the sales representative and asked, ‘What’s wrong with it?’” This, more than 78 years after J. Walter Thompson’s research for Pond’s Cold Cream proved that price and quality are directly correlated
• Ten Ways to Rearrange Deck Chairs American, Delta, United, and US Airway have either flirted with for filed for bankruptcy in the past 18 months. To provide some guidance in these tough times, Forbes suggests 10 Ways to Fix the Airline Mess. Of the 10 suggestions, 8 are Repeating the Same Action, Expecting a New Result, - have the US government bail
• Hotel Room as Showroom Hotels are now leveraging their experience comforting weary travelers and giving their guests the opportunity to take the hotel experience home. Marginal Revolution points to a Forbes article documenting the Regency in Manhattan’s addition of price tags to their bath mats, pillows, and bath robes. In a related development, Selelect Comfort recently announced a partnership with
• DoubleShot Coffee’s Single-Click Order Dashboard Widget  Yesterday, I came across the DoubleShot Coffee Order Widget. DoubleShot Coffee, the same Tulsa, OK folks on the receiving end of a trademark infringement claim by Starbucks, just made one giant leap for ecommerce. Simplicity and Persistence. After setting up credit card information on the widget’s backside, select one of their 18 coffees from the front and click
• Hollywood Video in the Local Supermarket  Ran up to the local Cub Foods for a last minute dinner item this evening and snapped the above photo of the new Hollywood Video Express Kiosk over in a part of the store I never go to (Sturgeon’s Revelation frequently comes to mind while I’m grocery shopping). I found two things interesting about this moment.