I have a love-hate relationship with Amazon. Love their product selection, user reviews and especially the ease and price savings of Amazon Prime. Hate the fact that for some reason Amazon refuses to use the data they have about their own customers in the most simplistic “pre-web 1.0” ways. We wrote about this in the […]
One of the great byproducts of Web 2.0 is that I often hear from friends and colleagues I have lost touch with. I am sure you too receive the “I found you on the internet, Facebook, Linked In, …” email from time to time, hopefully from people you actual want to talk to. Last week […]
I have been an IBM ThinkPad customer since 1991, about the year they starting making them, but the extremely poor customer service I experienced from Lenovo regarding my X61 Tablet forced me to look at other manufacturers. Although I have never been a fan of Dell laptops, I was attracted to the ads for the […]
Last Friday I left Harvard Square early with plans to get a jump on the traffic to New Hampshire with my 9 year old son Myles and “5 going on 2” yellow lab Ginger. We left Brookline a little behind schedule around 4pm and by the time we reached Storrow Drive, the East Bound lane […]
Click Here to buy a Kindle from amazon.com and 10% of the price will be donated to Year Up 4 Reasons why the Amazon Kindle e-reader is one of the best devices ever, will help you lose weight, save money and lower your stress level. My wonderful wife gave me an Amazon Kindle for our […]
When 2 former Bain consultants and one recently minted Harvard MBA started AIR MILES Canada, we knew a lot about the economics of customer loyalty and how to quickly understand and model the profit drivers of almost any business. We also knew almost nothing about database marketing other than a few buzzwords one of us […]
this post was also posted on Social Sphere Strategies For the past six months, we have been recommending to clients, potential clients and anyone unlucky enough to sit next to one of us at a dinner party that all businesses need to do the following: 1. Get smart – find a way to get senior […]
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For years, I always had the car combo favored by David Fialkow, among other locals – an older Porsche 994 C4 Cabriolet (911 to the layman) and a relatively new jeep for the winter. But Michael Bronner’s passion for lowering all of our carbon footprint lead me to ditch the jeep a year ago (I […]
One of my favorite blogs is a site called Gizmodo. As the name implies, it covers new “gizmo’s or gadgets ranging from all new cell phones from around the world, to new PC’s to wind turbines, home PT ultra-sound machines and even the fancy toilets like the one they have at Accretive, LLC (which still […]