http://www.loveforbiz.com Wed, 17 Jun 2009 20:26:17 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en I wanted to highlight some of the advertising efforts that have gotten attention recently because of their creative use of technology. Video games, bands, major brands, and ad agencies themselves are all coming up with new ways to get attention online while typically leveraging the most popular social networks. I placed ... http://www.loveforbiz.com/cool-uses-of-tech-in-recent-advertising Palm is getting ready to launch what will most likely be their best-selling handheld device ever, the Pre. There have been several attempts from most major handset manufacturers to catch up with the iPhone over the past couple of years but none have really lived up to the hype including ... http://www.loveforbiz.com/how-palm-is-strengthening-their-mobile-brand-online On the May cover of Inc. magazine right now is an article called "Why Everybody Loves Zappos". If you are a blogger or just very active online, you have probably already been hearing a ton about Zappos and their CEO, Tony Hsieh. The main reason I enjoyed this article is ... http://www.loveforbiz.com/some-more-thoughts-on-zappos You may have noticed lately the growing number people on social networks who are organizing efforts to raise money for a good cause or to help recently unemployed people find jobs. One recent example was when Robert Scoble decided to give away $4,500 of his own money, which he later ... http://www.loveforbiz.com/scoble-uses-friendfeed-to-give-away-5500-to-people-in-need Gone are the days when the simple contact form or a lengthy FAQs section enough to provide the level of customer support savvy consumers now expect. And traditional feedback methods like focus groups and phone surveys don't really make sense for primarily web-based companies. Thankfully, there are now several online services ... http://www.loveforbiz.com/6-ways-to-provide-customer-support-and-handle-feedback-online The image hosting service TwitPic has become one of the most popular 3rd party services for Twitter. Because of its popularity, most of the mobile Twitter apps that are available offer an easy way to upload pictures directly to TwitPic to post along with your text update. While breaking events and ... http://www.loveforbiz.com/5-things-people-like-to-twitpic I recently came across another video with Zappos CEO, Tony Hsieh, being interviewed informally by web entrepreneur Loic Le Meur. The interview, which is 20 minutes long and was recorded during the TED conference, can be found on YouTube. In this interview, Tony Hsieh talks about the several ways the company ... http://www.loveforbiz.com/happy-employees-get-their-own-book How are they changing the Web? The obvious is iPhone apps are increasingly allowing people to access online content during times when they didn't have access to it before, therefore continuing to speed up the rate of information sharing. Where apps are having trouble is keeping the users interested after ... http://www.loveforbiz.com/some-thoughts-on-iphone-apps I can sit here and quote Seth Godin's book Tribes all day, but that would spoil it for people who haven't read the book yet. If you are a Twitter user and you picked up Seth's latest book, you might automatically think that there will be a whole chapter dedicated ... http://www.loveforbiz.com/microleadership-through-twitter-tribes I just finished reading Confessions of an Advertising Man by David Ogilvy. I bought the book earlier this year after having read Then We Set His Hair on Fire by Phil Dusenberry, another advertising executive from BBDO which I also wrote about. Here are a few important Ogilvy-isms (concepts, tactics, or ... http://www.loveforbiz.com/thoughts-on-ogilvy-isms