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Okay, real talk, blogging often is hard shit. We care so much about you and your time. We don’t write posts for the sake of writing posts. If we have a passionate topic, you’ll see it here. Otherwise trust we are probably just busy making something great for the citizens of the interwebs.

twitter tip #3

In Continuing our series on twitter tips, I present tip #3 Avoid twittering just for the sake of twittering.  Nothing to say today? this week? Thats okay.

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twitter tip #2

In Continuing our series on twitter tips, I present tip #2 Would you call a customer to tell them this tweet? even email it to them? If not, dont tweet it.  Posting relevant, important, news is good. Silly is okay some times if it fits your company culture. Just dont tweet when you used the…

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Twitter tips

In a new series, I’d like to share tips on using twitter effectively as an organization. Small, short and easy to swallow tips on twitter.  the first tips to kick off the series: DO NOT feed your twitter posts into your blog. People reading your blog dont care to see your @replies.  DO feed your…

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How would you fix it: Sprint/nextel

So a few weeks ago i posted some questions regarding the newspaper industry, and how to fix it. I think I have some solid ideas, that I will post later. But that post got me thinking. A new series of blog posts, on what would you do to fix a company or industry. Could be…

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why does QUICK & EASY feel so good?

Whenever something takes longer than the predetermined time I have alloted for it, I can feel my satisfaction and enjoyment waning. On the other hand some things in life need to be extended: mountain bike riding, a very nice meal with my wife, a good fight scene in the movie and a much needed Sunday afternoon…

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genius desperation

this commercial has a GREAT spin on name recognition, humor with the obvious and not taking yourself too seriously – who won’t remember this the next time they are needing some quick money for their gold? (how many of us can really  relate to that anyway?)

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update me… please!

Some things are just screaming for an update… like the time share that I am in right now in Orlando. It was new & “in” when Miami vice was having it’s inaugural years.  The problem that this place faces is that it spent a TON of money on permanent fixtures that had a shelf life…

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[ LEADERSHIP ] why should you hire a professional design & marketing company?

Designers & idea people are NOTORIOUS for dreaming and promising far more than they deliver on. 9 times out of 10 you can completely forget about these creatives delivering your product on time. Communication, clear, detailed and consistent, will be missing almost every time. So, why like an addiction, in this era of highly competitive…

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Thoughts on interaction design

So I was watching this interesting video on the importance of interaction design in products. (found via forty) In the video they had this sketch. Here they are describing the process a customer takes as a relationship. So the M is marketing. Getting the customer to the point of purchase (P). The area after that…

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