Nov 3, 2009
Reaching your potential customers is critical to drive sales and email marketing is one of the lowest cost in any marketing channel. Email marketing is valuable to any business owners as it can be used to trigger sales, send out reminders or just used as a tool to reinforce a sale.
I have been blessed to worked with many email tools from custom programs and BCentral (Microsoft's first attempt ...
Oct 22, 2009
I have been working with Google since they were a fledgling company that was trying to claim market share from Overture/Yahoo and one of the beta testers for Gmail. When a company grows so fast, sometimes they will get sloppy.
Here is a good example, I signed up for a new MCC account for the Google Pay Per Click aka Google AdWords, the MMC confirmation email goes directly to ...
Oct 9, 2009
I was in Seattle recently and I met up with some of my friends from college, most of them worked for Microsoft. Wait, I think it was everybody who worked for Microsoft and there were people from the server group, guys who were working on the long awaited Windows 7 to some guys working on the infrastructure of their internal applications. One thing I heard from them were "Microsoft ...
Oct 8, 2009
Earthlings, in the show of their military might are flexing their muscles and literally taking a shot at the moon. In the pre-dawn hours Friday, a rocket is scheduled to punch a 13-foot-deep hole in the moon's south pole to deter an Martians from invading Planet Earth. This bold action was planned many moons ago when the rocket was launched in June 2009 and it is set for ...
Oct 2, 2009
I was privileged to go on the Boeing Factory Tour in Everett, WA and witness the production of 747, 767, 777 and 787 Dreamliner; I even saw a 747 DreamLifter on the runway. Boeing Factory lies about 30 minutes from downtown Seattle and it was very impressive. Before I went on the tour, some of the people I met gave me "facts" about the Boeing factory and I ...
Oct 1, 2009
Today, Google sent out about 100,000 invitations to the Google Wave for the Beta users. The Google Wave project was revealed at the Google I/O on May 27 - 28, 2009 in Moscone Center, San Francisco and limited account were given to those who attended. On Oct 1, 2009, it was released to beta tested who did not attend the I/O. The Google Wave is basically a communication ...
Oct 1, 2009
Saturn was the shooting star of the and was the "the" company that was aiming for the moon and beyond. That was in the 1990's when Saturn was positioned by GM as "a different kind of car company" and that brand cultivated a huge following where Saturn owners would driver across the country to Spring Hill, Tennessee for special events and gatherings.
Last week, I was reading through Consumer ...
Sep 19, 2009
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I have been tinkering and fixing things on my car for ages. Unfortunately, I do not own a classic or a speedster that burns rubber. A reliable 2000 Camry 4 cylinder 2.2L (5SFE) and it is in excellent condition eventhough it is relatively old and millage is ...
Sep 17, 2009
I had a friend over and asked to use my PC, so why not. Being a good host, I blended some fruit juice smoothie for him and his family. Low and behold, after 3 minutes, I hear a Blep blep blep and as I looked over, the juice was all over the Logitech wireless multimedia keyboard. Not a pretty sight. Not only was the keyboard drenched, as I ...
Sep 15, 2009
In Seattle, one can make a wonderful day trip when visiting the Hiram Locks, which is known locally as the Ballard Locks after the neighborhood to their North. Not only is one able to visit the locks, there is an educational visitor center on site, a fascinating garden with trees and plants from all over the world and also a Salmon viewing fish ladder with an educational center... ...