Strategy Director at branded podcast agency Wavelength Creative
Humour me with a quick experiment: run a Google search for the keywords “yd refund” or “yd refund policy“. If your search results are anything like mine, you’ll see a blog post written by Adam Jaffrey on 8 Jan 2010 in the top few results (it’s called Start your complaints at the top | by Adam Jaffrey).
My blog post ranks higher than Yd’s website in Google Search.
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Vending machines are the new (or are they the interim?) distribution channel for DVD rentals. Market leader Oovie—which was bought by Hoyts in 2009—and market challenger Video Ezy Express are battling for the business of Aussie movie renters.
But are they fighting the wrong fight?
Today is my first day of a 3 month internship with Taboo.
Taboo is an awesome marketing agency in South Yarra which specialises in creative, innovative and youth oriented campaigns. They are well known in the industry for the great work they produce, which is reflected by their long list of big clients. Internships at Taboo are highly sought after and are very difficult to come by.
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It’s really not necessary to buy Twitter followers. I recently bought over 60,000 (fake) Twitter followers and it didn’t achieve anything.
But just in case you cannot help yourself, here are a few tips:
Ten days ago I began conducting an experiment to test whether I could buy Twitter followers (you can find the base stats for the experiment here).
Well, it worked, and I now have over 60,000 Twitter followers!
The final results.
Here’s a quick update on my experiment to buy Twitter followers. These are the base numbers:
Twitter followers: 284
Klout score: 57.62
StatusPeople fake follower score: 87% good; 11% inactive; and 2% fake
I’m currently running an experiment in which I’m attempting to buy Twitter followers. I’m doing this for two reasons:
I received some interesting feedback in the comments of my previous blog post pertaining to this issue. I’d like to elaborate on some of the issues which were highlighted.
Is buying followers a violation of Twitter’s Terms of Service?
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If money can’t buy happiness, what can it buy?
Studies have shown that money can’t buy happiness. But can it buy popularity? Can it buy influence? These are questions I’m attempting to answer in an experiment I’m running.
So … it turns out you can buy Twitter followers. It’s actually pretty easy. Now, there are a lot of “professional” Twitter follower buying services out there, but I’m opting to lash out on the $5 online marketplace, Fiverr. I chose to use Fiverr for a few reasons:
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Follow these steps to disable comment moderation in WordPress.
In your WordPress admin dashboard, go to:
> Settings > Discussion > Before a comment appears
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Customers have changed.
In the past, sales reps would be tasked with “solution selling“—i.e. being adept at discovering customers’ needs and selling them solutions to those problems. In other words, the sales rep would ask the customer questions to diagnose their problem (need diagnosis) and would “sell” them a product that their company produces which provides a solution to the customer’s problem (need fulfilment).
But in recent times, customers require less help from salespeople to find solutions to their problems. This is likely because:
The result of these developments is that customers are able to self-diagnose problems and research solutions themselves.
Why does this matter?