I am a fan of comics. Came across bLaugh today. It calls itself “the un-official comic of the blogosphere”. Some pretty good funnies in there..check them out.
One thing I noticed about the site is that it is slow (during navigation). So to get quick access to all the strips at once, subscribe to its RSS. I do it in Google Reader and all I need to do is scroll down – all the strips gets loaded.
It wasn’t as bad as I thought it would be. In fact, it was quite easy. Here’s a quick overview:
Welcome!
I am finally going live here. I moved from ashed.wordpress.com. Thanks for all the support I got from all of you there. I hope you enjoy your visit here too. (I will try and make it most worthwhile for you.) Please do make sure to update your RSS subscriptions and bookmarks.
Happy Thanksgiving!
Note: On that note, Sreelesh and Seth have very interesting posts.
Note2: I will post details about why I moved to my own domain and my experiences in setting up the blog soon.
Woah! I have fallen too. I have decided to move to my own domain. I have started setting up WordPress on my domain. Will let you know once it is done. I don’t want all of you to see the mess I am making there! ;-)
I think my bandwidth for accepting poor customer service is going down cause I am getting more and easily ticked nowadays for poor (atrocious) service. In the last one week,
To think that this is the same country that manages some of the world’s best customer service centers and is also called a service-oriented economy. What happened? What are we missing? Do we really have to be taught to be courteous and respectful?
I don’t look at good customer service as a choice. It is an attitude. The same attitude when a unwelcome guest visits home. You don’t like him there but you still are courteous, kind and respectful to him.
If you look at the bigger (country-size) picture, there could be other possible reasons for this lack:
And I am sure there are more reasons. What do you think are the (deeper) reasons for poor service from a country’s perspective?
Dove’s new series of campaigns – this time, a direct attack on the beauty industry itself. Quite a bold stand!
www.campaignforrealbeauty.co.uk has three campaigns -
Onslaught says – “Talk to your daughter before the beauty industry does”
Evolution – the real beauty workshop, that shows people getting made for ads and magazine covers.
Pro age – “too old to be in an anti-aging ad”
These are powerful and authentic stories. Stories you want to believe is true. Stories you know, could be true. Authentic stories reach out to people. It is no wonder that Dove, a UniLever brand, is one of the best-selling world over.
Just read The Best and Worst Logo Remakes of the Century and UnderConsideration’s Brand New blog. They give a comparison-commentary about the changes that have taken place in some of the most well known brands around the globe.
Reminds me of what my Brand Management professor said a couple of years back – “It is not the consumers who get tired of the brand image or marketing message but the marketers.” Marketers spend so much time with their brand – they think even their audience is getting tired of it. They could not be more wrong!
As a marketer, I admit, one should be aware of the signs when the branding goes bad or needs a little shine. But change, for the sake of change, may not be the best decision for a brand. After all, it disrupts the very essence that branding is supposed to establish – trust. When a consumer sees a brand he trusts, he is comfortable. Don’t take that away from him!
When you make your next brochure, website or presentation, think from your audience’s perspective. What is he/she looking for? Don’t tell them all that you know (e.g. list of features). Give them more!
It is like borrowing empty jars from them and filling your content accordingly, depending on the size and shape of the jar. Only when the content is relevant to the user, will they ever show interest. And interest evokes action.
Did you see the new technorati interface? It moves.
New blog posts are added on top of the page/channel and the older posts scroll down. Good idea..but I noticed that the movement continues when you are not on the page as well. Well, it makes sense for a website that is trying to capture more than 1000 posts every second.
