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Entries from June 2006

Raving Fans and Infamy

June 27th, 2006 ·

Update: via Scoble I stumbled onto the audio from BloggerCon - Chris Pirillo’s session on Users In Charge offers a great extra dimension to this discussion.
In the last two weeks, two different companies generated interesting lessons on customer service, the blogosphere and social networking.
First up - Vincent Ferrari at Insignificant Thoughts records his experience trying […]

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Barriers To Entry

June 21st, 2006 ·

I happened to get into a conversation today with a friend about creating hardcover photo albums via online services. I’d just read Ulrich Boser’s review on Slate, so I forwarded her the link and opened a new tab up for their top pick, Shutterfly. She had recently seen a book produced from My Publisher, so […]

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Personalization Gone Awry

June 20th, 2006 ·

It’s a well known fact among marketers that personalization increases response rates for direct mail. Back when I was still working with Stramull, we specialized in designing projects that used variable data printing - one of the stickiest parts of any project was making sure our data was properly scrubbed.
Obviously, the person responsible for scrubbing […]

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