Trashflower

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So, as you may have noticed, I moved my blog away from using my real name as my domain name, instead posting it at the semi-neutral, semi-anonymous url of “Trashflower.com” I’m not doing this out of fear, because I know better than to post anything online that I’m not wiling to stand behind and live [...]

I have to say, its quite a shock to the old system, to be working at 5:50 am when I’m actually at home. When I’m on the road, this is pretty normal, because I travel mostly to East Coast time. Waking up 2 hours early is torture! Last night SP decided that he wanted to [...]

If you’re into marketing – which, of course, I am – the <a href=”http://www.bzzagent.com//p/8460322192/brandicjohnson”>Church of the Customer</a> Blog is a good place to stop by on a regular basis. Their regular writers have spent years learning about customer evangelism, so if you spend a few minutes with them, you’re likely to learn quite a bit.

“It’s way more profitable to encourage each of your existing customers to spend $3 than it is to get a stranger to spend $300.” – Seth Godin If only more marketers remembered that and used it when planning their campaigns.

What a great idea… A company in Tokyo is allowing employees to take paid time off to deal with the end of a relationship. Most people jsut call them sick days, or personal days, but I think most people have been guilty of doing this. Read more about heartache leave – and a couple of [...]

If you’ve ever worked in Corporate America, known someone who worked in Corporate America, or watched a television show that featured someone who worked in Corporate America, chances are that you’ve heard some of the key words that float around, driving us to distraction. Now, Tom Stern from Fast Company has posted some of the [...]

I don’t like fluorescent lights very much. I find that by the end of the day with them I have an unfortunate and unhappy headache. Plus since my office has 1 pane of window, I get some natural light which I much prefer over the fluorescents. So, when I moved into this office, I unscrewed [...]

Dear Dirty Dishes, You’ve been in the company sink for the last week, at least. You’re not getting washed. I don’t know who placed you there, perhaps in a hurry to get to a meeting, with good intentions to come back and wash you. Sadly, those intentions were not followed-through on, and there you sit, [...]

10 Ways to find creative new ideas – especially when you’re under the gun. (From Marketing Profs)