Archive for September, 2007
Lies = bad marketing
Seth Godin might have written that ‘All Marketers Are Liars’, those who read the book know that marketers are not liars, rather story-tellers. They tell stories on which we base our perception of the product, and our perception is our reality. What we believe becomes true.
This is actually the reason why marketers should not lie [...]
I don’t believe in online dating
Sometimes, my friends would ask me how comes I am still single.
Although I hope to meet my Mr Right some day, I like where I am in life right now, and people around me do not always understand that. But still, the not meeting the right guy is probably the main reason.
Of course, there will [...]
Grabbing onto things
I just finished decluttering my wardrobe. This is something I don’t do often, but these last weeks, I was upset by the fact that finding the pieces I was looking for, was taking me way too much time. So I decided that was something I would do during my holidays, hence my project for this [...]
Read Full Post | Make a Comment ( None so far )Blogging yourself out of debt
According to Anya Kamenetz, author of Generation Debt, twenty-somehtings are now the most indebted generation in Modern History.
College studies cost a lot, and when you enter the workforce, you are already in debt, sometimes for hundreds of thousands dollars. Credit cards are given to practically anyone, social pressure can make young adults take bad money [...]
20 days a year
I am now on holidays until the end of next week. Which means I have 2 whole weeks to do only the things that matter to me. I have books to read (I have finished Harry Potter #7 already), blogposts to write, shopping to do, friends to see… I have my life to live.
I started [...]
PowerPoint and I, we are getting a divorce
Warning: this post contains explicit details of my relationship my with soon-to-be ex.
I heart PowerPoint. I started using it when I was a student, I think around 1997. At that time most people didn’t know it existed, outside the business world.
At first I was shy, just writing a couple of key words on a few [...]
Women rules
« So, now you work for a company managed by a women » – that’s how a supplier I was meeting for the first time after starting my new job, initiated the conversation.
My first thought was « so what? ». My previous job was at a small business owned by a woman, and the job before that within a [...]
Marketing to selfish idiots
Warning: you might find yourself falling under the selfish idiot category, but I am one, too, so I’m not saying this to be mean.
We had this conversation at lunchtime at work today: one of my colleague said he is going to buy a new dishwasher. The one he has had so far needs 33 liters [...]
The awful truth about milk
A big debate has been going on for a long time between those who think we should drink milk and eat dairy (and the industry is on that side) and those who say that milk is for calves and babies. A variation around the same theme is a theory according to which the structure of [...]
Read Full Post | Make a Comment ( None so far )It must be called “work” for a reason
When I got my first job, I joined a family company that actually was just a bunch of kids under 30, me being the youngest at 21. I don’t know by what miracle, but we were doing a good job with huge sales growth. And we were having fun. If I was out on a [...]
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