I finally got rid of my piece-of-crap Palm Pre (sorry, Palm, I really, really tried to like you) and am working it with the Samsung Epic 4G with Sprint. It’s one of the many Android phones out there and can I just say that I feel like I finally got out of that crappy relationship and found the man, er, phone of my dreams. This phone is amazing!
I love, love, love Swype, the nifty little finger-sliding tool that enables me to text almost as fast as I type, with no thumb strain. I’m texting like a teenager! The phone has a slide out keyboard which I never use. I’m still within the window to exchange the phone so I might get the Evo, which has no keyboard (and I assume is lighter).
In the iPhone vs. Android war, I have heard strong arguments on both sides. The iPhone still looks more sleek and sexy to me, but I’ll never switch to AT&T. Yes, I know you can finally get an iPhone on Verizon and if I were with Verizon, I would certainly check it out. But I actually like Sprint and have I mentioned I love my new phone?
I’ve lived in Cleveland, driven in blizzards, gone to the movies with 16″ of snow outside, and even had to stay the night in a seedy motel once driving from Cleveland to Louisville when the highway iced over. So 5″ of snow should be no problem for me, right?
Trust me. It’s a problem. When you live in the South, northerners are fond of saying, “it’s not the snow that scares me, it’s the other drivers.” But that’s not really true. In all fairness to my Southern brethren, it’s hard to drive on roads that aren’t cleared and we just don’t have the equipment down here that they had back in Ohio. I just heard on the news that Atlanta’s airport only has enough equipment and crew to de-ice 10-12 planes per hour. The busiest airport in the country, with roughly 2400 departures and landings a day, can only de-ice 12 an hour. Nobody’s going anywhere in a hurry.
And then there’s the freezing rain that would be a problem no matter where you live. Our temperatures down here tend to hover right around freezing during snow storms. Go up a few degrees, it’s rain. Drop a few, it freezes. It’s a mess. That is what’s happening today. We have sleet and freezing rain coming down on top of the lovely snow that fell last night. So we’re all working from home, at least until the ice coats the limbs, which will fall and knock out power lines. But let’s hope that doesn’t happen.
We don’t own a snow shovel, nor do our neighbors. No sleds, either (plenty of cardboard boxes we can turn into one) – but it’s hard to go sledding with ice pellets slapping your face anyway. We’ll all stay indoors and post pics of our snow-covered patios on Facebook. And make french toast with all the bread, milk and eggs we stocked up on!
It’s the South, People. We live here, in part, because of the mild winters. We’re not equipped for snow storms. So just sit back, relax, and – er – chill.
IKEA has one of the world’s strongest visual brands. Look how brilliantly they are extending that brand that into their very own cookbook. The recipe photos are deconstructed abstracts images of the recipe’s ingredients. Beautiful. (And come to think of it, about as helpful as the directions are in their products.)
Hey, maybe IKEA should turn the images into a flashcard game where you guess what recipe each picture represents?
Is that like an IED? Not exactly. IMP, that’s an Internet Marketing Professional. While we may be able to extract significant “damage” to a client’s competitor base, no road-side bombs are employed.
It was a sort of an epiphany that some people may not understand what an internet marketer actually does, and the mind through which we operate. Here’s my answer:
Intelligent – Internet marketing professionals are intelligent. We have to know what the current trends are in the market, what’s going to impact a targeted market, and what the new strategies and technologies are to make that impact.
Methodical – Believe it or not, there actually is a method to our madness. While some people just throw out marketing efforts, hoping to make something work, Internet Marketing Professionals are armed with best practices, current market trends, and a plethora of analysis to make sure the efforts made on behalf of our clients are successful.
Poetic – Yes, poetic is a great description of an Internet Marketing Professional. What we do can be compared to writing a great poem. It may never end up in a classic literature textbook, but our goals are the same. Poets and IMP’s are both driven by what will move someone. In the case of Internet Marketing Professionals, we want to move someone to a specific action, and that is practical poetry (even if it doesn’t rhyme).
Have you taken the time to talk with an Internet Marketing Professional to discuss how to move your business forward? If not, reach out, and let’s make something great happen for you!
“I don’t even talk to anybody with less than 900,000 followers,” opines Ryan Seacrest in this satiric little bit with Ben Stiller on how to get Twitter followers. For those of you who came to the Tweetorial yesterday, I thought this might provide some additional, uh, insight. Enjoy!
This will be my husband’s first Father’s Day and I can’t think of a better way to honor him than with one of these cakes. Actually, I can think of a lot better ways, but these are at least funny! As always, Jen at CakeWrecks has the funny goods.
So this is my first year as a mother and I’m sure my husband has something great cooked up for me for Mother’s Day (hint, hint, Honey). Let’s hope it’s not one of these cakes (spotted, as always on the brilliant Cake Wrecks site):
Have a great weekend, Everybody! Oh, and thanks for bearing with us as we move this blog over to WordPress. We’re still working out some glitches.
“We’re going to make America skinny, one slap at a time.” Thanks to Steve for turning me on to the Slap Chop. Guess I haven’t been watching enough t.v. cuz I hadn’t seen it. Thanks to YouTube, my life is now complete. Enjoy and have a great weekend!
My husband laughed so hard at this spot we had to rewind several times to catch some of the lines. He was particularly fond of “You Dummy!” shouted at the hapless cubicle dweller.
I’m one of those people who watch the Super Bowl for the ads (although now I just look them all up online the next day). CareerBuilder’s taken it a step further — and increased their buzz — by releasing their ad ahead of time. Lots of web chatter, lots of YouTube views. Enjoy and have a great weekend!
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