http://www.simplenomics.com Sales, Marketing and Customer Service Strategies Tue, 23 Jun 2009 01:32:05 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en Zuberance is a "Word of Mouth" marketing company that provides an on-demand platform that enables B2B and B2C marketers to identify and mobilize their Advocates, generating leads and sales. They're putting on a webinar @ 11 AM PST on June 24 on how B2B companies can harness the power of WOM. Here’s ... http://www.simplenomics.com/word-of-mouth-zuberance-webinar/ I'm reading a NYTimes article that's letting me know that, since times are bad, Hyatt has decided to finally value their customers and do business like the rest of us have been doing it for several decades. I'm not that impressed, especially since it took a downturn in the economy to ... http://www.simplenomics.com/hyatt-decides-to-do-business-like-the-rest-of-us-finally/ It's 10:00 PM on a Saturday night. My wife needs some yogurt to go with some blackberries and strawberries she bought. I head down the road, into town, towards my local Kroger. It's a 60 second drive. I walk straight to the dairy section, grab some organic vanilla yogurt and head staright ... http://www.simplenomics.com/kroger-doesnt-care-about-you-or-your-time/ The basis of this post, the backbone, as it were, is a simply tremendous post, written by Brian Clark, of Copyblogger.com fame. The minute I read his post, I saw another post inside of it, a sales-related post, screaming at me to set it free. Not that there was anything that his ... http://www.simplenomics.com/sales-presentations-like-trial-lawyer/ I hadn't been in a Fazoli's in a long time, but I'm gonna go back real soon for more marketing lessons. Who knew Fazoli's was a marketing hotbed? The beautiful and brainy part of my life and I stopped in a Fazoli's at the end of the weekend and the young marketer ... http://www.simplenomics.com/who-knew-fazolis-knew-marketing/