Random Articles

• Hotel Room as Showroom Hotels are now leveraging their experience comforting weary travelers and giving their guests the opportunity to take the hotel experience home. Marginal Revolution points to a Forbes article documenting the Regency in Manhattan’s addition of price tags to their bath mats, pillows, and bath robes. In a related development, Selelect Comfort recently announced a partnership with
• “You should be fired if you do a marketing site without an RSS feed.” (originally published at MNteractive.com) What the internet does really, really well is connect things through hyperlinks. The outcome of hyperlinks is connecting people. When people are connected, there’s a relationship. Websites are an excellent marketing tool. Like any tool, they need to be used correctly. To do so, they need to build a relationship between the company
• Talking is Marketing Any time someone in your organization has any contact with your clients or prospects, they are performing a marketing function. Thanks to John Jantsch for this timeless thought.
• Hotel Room as Showroom - Part 2 Starting this week and running through Sept. 20, guests can check out the cameras, take pictures and print them using an HP Photosmart 245 photo printer installed at the hotels Following up on the original Hotel Room as Showroom article, Yahoo Reports that Fairmont Hotels and HP are partnering to offer guests digital camera rental
• You Really Won’t Know Until You Build It I caught Charlie Lazor, talking about building furniture and houses at the University of Minnesota this evening. I found this quote on prototyping invaluable: “We spent so much time arguing whether or not it work, and when we prototyped it, it worked remarkably well. We could have saved so much time, if we had just built