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Apple of my Eye

May 29th, 2008 ·

31:01 - 3.76 miles
In one day I experienced ridiculous service and then extraordinary service. The place that provide such amazing service:
The Apple Store
This is a company that understands how to connect and make people pull out their wallets. First, they listen to their customers and then act. Second, they hire people who want to work […]

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Target Store Policy: Minimum Service

May 28th, 2008 ·

It is a Wednesday morning and I walk into Target carrying 2 kids under the age of 3. I need a new battery for my running watch so proceed to the Watches counter. Nobody was there so I pushed the button and received an automated message that someone would be there in 60 seconds. I […]

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Burned Out On The Job?

May 19th, 2008 ·

Here is an interesting story on CNN.com about signs to determine if you are having a bad day on the job or just burnt out. It is something I have been asking myself with my own company. Business is going well, so why do I continuously get the “don’t care” feeling? Even trying to wrap […]

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Quantitative and Qualitative

May 14th, 2008 ·

Spent the day at an American Marketing Association conference named “Data to Decision.” Anyone that knows me is aware that I can’t sit in a chair focused on one thing for more then 38 minutes. Today, there were some definite parts that held my attention.
There was much discussion and case studies on how to gather […]

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Reading on the bus

May 12th, 2008 ·

39:11 - 4.05 Miles
Over the past couple of weeks I have read 2 books on the bus. Nothing to be impressed about as they were motivational books which are basically books with quotes in them. Didn’t learn anything particularly insightful. What resonated with me, was the comment that “overnight success doesn’t happen overnight.” Too many […]

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