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Entries from August 2008

Under-Promise & Over-Deliver

August 18th, 2008 · No Comments

Zappos is really good at this. See below and read some of the recent order confirmation email I received from them…
Good news!
Although you originally ordered Standard (4 to 5 business days) shipping
and handling, we have given your order special priority processing in
our warehouse and are upgrading the shipping and delivery time frame for your order.
Your [...]

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Tags: E-Commerce · Ecommerce · Fast · Marketing · Promises · Shoes · Shopping · Zappos · Zappos.com

Fast Company Missing The Boat

August 13th, 2008 · 1 Comment

During breakfast today I read a cool article in the latest issue of Fast Company. As I sometimes do with dead-tree publications I read when I see a cool article…I’ll find the article online at their website and share it with a few people I think would like it. But, FastCompany.com doesn’t have the article [...]

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Tags: Articles · Bad · Fast Company · FastCompany.com · Magazines · Online · Websites

Cuil Ignoring Robots.txt

August 12th, 2008 · 2 Comments

If Cuil search results were not cool enough already, today I noticed some visits to this website coming from pages blocked in the robots.txt file for this site. What’s up with that Cuil?
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Tags: Cool · Cuil · Not Cool · Robots.txt · SEM · SEO · Search Engine Marketing · Search Engines

4 TV’s For The Price of 1

August 11th, 2008 · No Comments

If you’ve got a bunch of rooms in your house/apartment (I’ve got basically 3 rooms and 3 TV’s) and like to have the option of TV in each room, but hate paying for additional cable/satellite boxes, check out what I’ve figured out for my place:
- Get one of these distribution amplifiers, and hook it up [...]

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Tags: Amplifier · Cable · Free · Quality · RCA · Satellite · Signals · TV · Television · Uncategorized

Endicia For Mac

August 3rd, 2008 · 4 Comments

If you have a Mac, hate the post office like I do, and were wondering what software/system works good for printing online postage using a Mac…I’m testing Endicia for Mac right now and so far it rocks! You can very very easily print postage directly onto envelopes or right onto shipping labels, and do lots [...]

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Tags: Apple · Endicia · Mac · Post Office · Postage · Shipping · Software · Stamps.com