I ordered something from the Company Store at the end of last year. They had a great sale on bedding, and I ordered a rouge duvet cover and sheets. The sheets were mailed to me immediately, but the duvet cover became backordered. When I came back from China, they notified me that the cover was [...]
Entries Tagged as ‘pr/marketing’
April 14, 2009
Customer Appreciation
Filed under pr/marketing
Tags: customer loyalty, customer relations, great customer service, the company store
April 13, 2009
Rant, Rant, Rant @AT&T
It’s utterly ridiculous that I just spent 45:53 minutes on the phone with AT&T to discuss extraneous roaming charges that showed up on my bill.
It took 30 minutes just to get someone on the phone and load his system because it’s been down (I’m talking 12:00AM on Monday morning). Once I challenged the rep that [...]
Filed under pr/marketing, tech
Tags: att, bad customer service, community manager, customer service, twitter, user forum, verizon, your world delivered
April 6, 2009
Feeling the Traffic
I’ve been reading Seth Godin’s blog religiously. What I’ve noticed is that he uses everyday experiences to discuss marketing issues. The analogy helps effectively communicate his ideas, and that small bit of inspiration goes a long way in helping me develop marketing plans.
While speaking with my friend Juicy J last night, I remembered driving through [...]
Filed under pr/marketing, social
Tags: analogies, anticipating actions, behaviours, cars, driving, joshua hooper, juicy j, pr agency, predicting people, seth godin, SHIFT communications, traffice
March 25, 2009
Personal vs. Professional: The Winner is…
I’ve been mulling over the concept of personal brand reputation and what’s acceptable behaviour online. When Facebook first became public right after I graduated college, I was adamantly against the concept. Facebook was my personal space online, and allowing my professional world in would create tons of conflict and an anal amount of privacy controls. [...]
Filed under pr/marketing, social, tech
Tags: branding, facebook profile, jany xu, online reputation, personal brand, tumblr, twitter
March 20, 2009
Is Anybody Listening.
I’m so incredibly lucky.
I went to a lunch called “Conducting a Job Search in a Tough Economy” yesterday sponsored by the Northern California Penn Club. Peter Jacobs, a Wharton alum, introduced a framework to help us outshine the competition during job search. What struck me the most was the age distribution [...]
Filed under pr/marketing, social
Tags: anhui, applications, apps, big picture, china, factories, hefei, hometown, job search, lucky, northern california penn club, online resume, penn clum, personal branding, peter jacobs, social media, sonewe, sonewe.com, start-up, the wharton school, widgets, youtube
March 3, 2009
Hello World!
I’ve taken a bit of a hiatus from blogging (in case you haven’t noticed). I’ve taken a break from life as well. Since the new year, I parted with SHIFT, which is still an amazing PR Agency; took a long, needed trip to China; popped by New York for a long weekend, more like almost [...]
Filed under just life, pr/marketing, tech
Tags: beijing, china, dove, international calls, iphone, new york, new york library, social media resume, sonewe, suburbs, uggly betty, vacation
December 30, 2008
Introspective Time
I’ve started and restarted this blog 4 times already. And it’s just rubbish.
So instead, here’s a linkie to exactly how I feel. #
… Tomorrow: Obama, Olympics & sap.
December 27, 2008
Best Christmas Present & Stalking Babies
This is a long set up (and the image will make sense later).
1. So we have table topics at our Toastmasters meetings, in which anyone could contribute on a given topic. Last time around, the question was “how has the economy affected your holiday spirit?”
I answered that I can see some bright side effects of [...]
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Tags: animals, baby fish, book shelves, breeding tank, canon powershot, cat, celebration, christmas, economy, fish, guppies, happy hanukkah, holiday season, IKEA, joy, kitteh, kittie, life, live birth, merry christmas, mon petit coeur, pets, petsmart, responsibility, toastmaster, toastmasters
December 22, 2008
Year in Review 2008: Personal
I’m home for the final time this year before heading back to the Bay for 2009. It’s scary to think that we’re already closing in on the last year of 00s. It’s been a growing year. At 24, I realize that I have more capabilities at hand and more potential than I ever did as [...]
Filed under just life, love, politics, pr/marketing, social
Tags: barack, obama, kitten, kittie, kitteh, houston, texas, cat, love, hope, peace, mon petit coeur, career, hillary clinton, get smart, fat, mccain, mature, maturity, year in review, living thing, super sweet 16, SHIFT communications, best places to work, rock star, lard, cholestrol, health, read, find my happiness, my way or the highway, entj, myers briggs, type a, extroverts, sharing, merry christmas, happy hanukkah, palin
December 10, 2008
From God to Godless to Godfull
Three thoughts:
“San Francisco is godless.”
I paraphrase but that’s what my friend told me over dinner last night. Why? SF is hugely liberal, progressive and largely accepting and non-religious.
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“Apple evokes a similar response to a religious experience.”
Again, I paraphrase. It’s from the book Buyology, about marketing, marketing research and buying habits by Martin Lindstrom.
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“As people evolve, [...]
Filed under just life, politics, pr/marketing, social, stuff, tech
Tags: .mac, 3g iphone, apple, buying, christianity, coca-cola, coke, consumerism, economy, godless, history of god, holiday season, i'm a pc, iphone, islam, judaism, major designers, marc jacobs, religion, san francisco, steve jobs, target
