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Unsatisfied Customer/ Non Dedicated Relationship

Okay, I just got the poorest service from one of my favorite breakfast places in my area..and im disappointed. Im not returning, I figured they were dedicated.

Let me get to the point. My staff and I have 2 favorite places we order breakfast  from everyday for nearly a year now. Theirs nine of us for now, and we order breakfast together everyday Monday-Saturday so that goes to show that this involves a hefty tip…but that’s besides the point. Daily our total is no more that $35 and no less than $20 considering that there is a delivery limit of $10. Okay so we order breakfast for a year now, we even sometimes go and pick our stuff up on the way to work, this way we make a relationship with the employees and the owner from the Breakfast place. So we know each other on the first name basis.

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Next Level Marketing/Advertising

I’ve come across a very interesting article on NYTImes.com, this one really caught my attention. I goes to show on how far many companies such as the ones shown on the image will go. Advertising, spamming, non- permission marketing is so getting out of hand now. Starting with the most important meal of the day…all the way to riding back home from work in a cab you’ll be cluttered with all this repetitive mumbo jumbo.

We never know where the consumer is going to be at any point in time, so we have to find a way to be everywhere,” said Linda Kaplan Thaler, chief executive at the Kaplan Thaler Group, a New York ad agency. “Ubiquity is the new exclusivity.

Makes me feel like we’re not safe anymore…err…in a way its good for new businesses, but still, all this clutter will make people stop shopping over at their usual supermarkets or retail stores because of all the messy interrupting ads. 
- Nancy Strong of Staten Island

What all marketers are dealing with is an absolute sensory overload,” said Gretchen Hofmann, executive vice president of marketing and sales at Universal Orlando Resort. The landscape is “overly saturated” as companies press harder to make their products stand out, she said. [Read More Here]

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"Quick Link" – Seth Godin’s How to be Remarkable

• Seth Godin’s How To Be Remarkable

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Illustrator CS2 Tip – Have your pick

Adobe Illustrator CS2 Tip – Have Your Pick of Colors.

Did you know that there’s a “Photoshop like” Color Picker in Illustrator? Just double-click on the Fill box at the bottom of your Tools palette or in your Color palette and the Color Picker window will open. After picking your perfect color, click OK and drag the Fill box from your Color palette to the Swatches palette and Save it as a Swatch to use again and again.

Tip provided by Jeff Witchel, Certified Adobe® Training Provider.

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AdBrite Makes Interesting Video Product

The new product is called In Video. Adbrite has created an embeddable video player similar to YouTube, Photobucket, etc.  Anyone who takes the content and embeds it on their own site will show the same video, with the same ads and watermark (revenue goes to the original video creator). And all click backs on the video go to the original site (whereas with YouTube all click backs go the original YouTube site).

[go and check it out here]

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