Posts Tagged ‘product’

Finnish companies don’t know how to sell on web

Monday, May 25, 2009 22:40 No Comments

So I had this need to find any supplier for a beautiful but challenging structural glass system (at that point we were calling them those beautiful glass walls that you see). We were in a meeting - my boss and I plus the buyers. Totally innocent question and I gave a totally innocent answer “Sure, [...]

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True Weeds

Wednesday, May 6, 2009 23:03 No Comments

Single mom set up a cannabis shop in Finland and put her kids to work. Who says TV isn’t educational? One thing those goons should get is not to touch your own product. This is probably the only field in marketing that doesn’t benefit from continuous use of the product that you are selling.

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Biggest music store closing amid recession

Sunday, February 22, 2009 16:58 No Comments

More bad news from retailers. Virgin is closing their huge music store at Times Square. The thing to take home with is that people like to pay for music, not CDs or other physical storage medias of music. Well there is that market niche of collectors who just have to have the physical representation of [...]

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Love it or hate it

Saturday, February 21, 2009 0:56 No Comments

Too often marketers are coming up with concepts, which try to suit to everybody. Not so in this case. A dryer for bras will get tree hugging people upset, but braholics ecstatic! It doesn’t matter that nature lovers won’t buy this product, hell, they probably won’t buy even a dryer. The key element in any [...]

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When you lose your strength

Sunday, February 15, 2009 11:59 No Comments

Gadling travel blog has an interesting piece about Dubai’s rise and fall. This is a good read for people who are heavily banking on certain market segment or specific product. What happens if your strength is strength no more?

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