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iPad Live from Best Buy
Buying some more iPads to give away at http://blog.dimdim.com Sent from my iPhone
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iPad Live from Best Buy
Buying some more iPads to give away at http://blog.dimdim.com Sent from my iPhone
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Talk about great free iPad advertising
Yeah, the iPad is making the rounds this week - and the best juxtaposition of how Apple gets marketing right and Amazon gets it wrong is this video. Big Free iPad ad on front of Newsweek. Expensive Kindle ad on back of Newsweek. Awesome! The Colbert ReportMon - Thurs 11:
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iPad demand outstrips supply (or why I couldn't get 3)
Let the long lines at Apple Store counters begin! Yes, I was also contacted by Apple last night to reduce my original iPad order. See my response in this blog post
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Apple finally embraces Social Media
AppStore is on Facebook. Apple is on YouTube. Way to go Apple! Social media is gaining in Cupertino (finally!) www.facebook.com/appstore started on March 18 - over 40,000 fans already!
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The True Power of Great Marketing
"Apple has been able to generate over $75 million in revenue in one day on a product that 99.9% of purchasers haven't touched or for that matter, even seen in person," said Victor Castroll, an analyst with Valcent Financial Group. "And, we're
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(Untitled)
Apple is announcing that iPad will ship on April 3 and will start taking orders on March 12. Watch carefully - this is all part of their process to determine how popular certain models will be and dynamically shift supply to fill demand about 3 weeks in advance. Very interesting
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Apple Marketing iPad
I've gotten many emails and phone calls about Apple's iPad marketing over the last few weeks all asking about Apple's marketing prowess. One of the tenets of great marketing is what I call "passion over logic." In other words, when your passion
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An Open Letter (okay, blog post) to Toyota's James Lentz
Dear Jim, As President of Toyota Motor Sales US, I know you are dealing with a very difficult situation and I think I may be able to help turn your nightmare into a dream (at least on the PR front.) I can help provide every Toyota customer with a free
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If you love Free...
Pardon the obvious selfish motives; but us marketers need to stick together... Please vote for Dimdim - the iPod of Web Conferencing - just by clicking this badge - it will take only 5 seconds and you won't have to register for anything. Thanks Techcrunch! <p>
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Congrats, Steve. Fortune's "CEO of the Decade"
What more can I say. One man remade computers, music, movies and phones. Bravo! BTW, the answer to the Gizmodo blog about the original name for iMac was "C1". Short for "Compact One" Guess what the original name for the iBook was?
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How do you say "spin" in Chinese?
Interesting story by Philip Elmer-DeWitt (probably the coolest financial journalist name ever) about how poorly sales of iPhones have gone in China. Is it me, or is there a story everyday spelling doom for the Cupertino cash machine? When I used to work at Apple (1991-1999) we had our share