Yeppies

As described by Wired Magazine, Yeppies are:

"Short for "young experimenting perfection seekers". Adrift in a world of conflicting opportunities, these are chronically dissatisfied twentysomethings approach life as an exercise in comparison shopping, refusing to commit for fear of missing a better offer."

By |December 7th, 2005|Sales and Marketing|Comments Off on Yeppies

The Million Dollar Home Page

British Ingenuity. Alex Tew has created a unique way to pay for college.

"The idea is simple: to try and make $1m (US) by selling 1,000,000 pixels for $1 each. Hence, ‘The Million Dollar Homepage". The main motivation for doing this is to pay for my degree studies, because […]

A Socket In Your Pocket

No matter…I always run out of of battery power while on the road. Now a great solution- Charge 2 Go. What I like about this solution is that you put a AA battery into this aluminum canister and it gives you 1-3 hours of talk time. And I can always find a AA- even […]

By |November 22nd, 2005|Sales and Marketing|Comments Off on A Socket In Your Pocket

A Letter From Typepad

I received an great letter from Barak Berkowitz, CEO of Six Apart that makes Typepad (the blog software I use) offering compensation for outages they have been having. What struck me was the honesty of the letter offering the user a choice to get a rebate on service based on personally how much they had […]

eBay- Unwired!

Interesting article in the Chicago Tribune that discussed a new service for ebay users:

According to Clark University, 50 % of all bids on eBay auctions are received in the last 5 minutes. What happens when you are not near your computer when the auction ends? Enter Unwired Buyer..it keeps you updated by phone at […]

By |October 29th, 2005|Sales and Marketing|Comments Off on eBay- Unwired!