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Archive for 2007

Throw your $204 million diamonds in the sky

It was announced yesterday that Jay-Z has sold Rocawear to Iconix Brand Group for $204 million in cash, plus an additional $35 million in Iconix stock if it hits projected markers over the next few years.

Not too shabby for an apparel line extended from a record label by three …

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Like a bat out of hell

You may have heard of Matt Coddington. He recently joined the YGG forum, is quite a successful internet entrepreneur at the ripe old age of 22, and owns a website that entered the blogging world like, well, like a bat out of hell. He asked us to write a review of that website, Net Business Blog.

I’m not sure if there’s a formula to calculate the age of a blog as to the age of its blogger much like dog years, but Net Business Blog has done in less than 2 months what usually takes the typical blogger a few years.

Net Business Blog is about how to make a living online. Through its rampant growth spurt it’s already on the heels of similar mega-blogs such as John Chow, Problogger, and Shoemoney, among others.

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Time to check in

About once a month I like to send an e-mail or give a ring to customers to ask them how they’re last bit of service with me went and if there’s anything else that’s cropped up since that I could help them with. You wouldn’t believe how much extra business a simple phone call or …

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Would your ego prefer crystal or marble?

This is a paid review

We have the Oscars, Cannes, Clios, Grammy, and hundreds of other award ceremonies that we see each year. For many industries these awards represent the highest level of achievement, and whether you admit or not, can be the primary motivation behind your actions at times.

There’s always been an argument in the ad industry between those that enter hundreds of campaigns into the awards each year and those that ban their agency from entering at all. No matter which side you choose or industry you’re in, there’s no question that having a gold Cannes Lion or Oscar on your bookshelf and resume takes you to a new level.

You may have received a trophy at a spelling bee when you were a kid, or an award at the golf tourney you were in last year. Chances are somewhere in your house or office is a product from a company like Crystal Occasion.

Crystal Occasion is the first company to request a review from us through ReviewMe.

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We love Presentation Zen

This is one of those cases where you have to dig through the archives because it’s hard to believe that you haven’t already featured the site. Presentation Zen is one of the few blogs that never disappoints.

We’ve all led or attended large and small presentations, most …

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The George Bush Walker

Strangely cool. In a hippy sort of way.


Video link
found at Gizmodo.

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Gretzky seems to have known what he was talking about

Usually anything that comes from the mouth of an athlete is destined for the blooper reel. If not, it’s a composition of umh, and, ah, and, umh, did I mention ah?

I’m sure “the Great Oneâ€? aka Mr. Wayne Gretzky had similar moments in front of the camera, but this one …

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YGG is HOT

Who’s the cat that won’t cop out, when there’s danger all about? YGG. Right On! They say this cat YGG is a bad mother… SHUT YOUR MOUTH!

We signed up for that ReviewMe program way back when and never got an offer. …

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How to lose a customer with the least amount of effort

1) Don’t provide any telephone support

2) When they’re forced to use chat support in their browser, make them wait for 45 minutes to acknowledge their presence

3) Make sure the support rep can barely understand English and is fluent in copying and pasting prewritten responses

4) If you can’t help the customer, …

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SkinnyCorp CommunityNext Video

A big thanks to Guy for getting his hands on this video. I’ve spoken about Threadless before and this video is their show stealing presentation at the CommunityNext conference a few weeks back.

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