3 Point Wednesday
by Danielle Smith on 08/19/2009 at 5:53 pm in Observations, Opinion Editorial, Within Range
Danielle’s three random points of the day! Much like Woot.com’s two for Tuesdays only I’m not selling anything and this won’t be a recurring theme. But you’re welcome to bid on my three things regardless:
- comScore has now decided to charge for its State of the Union findings. If you’re not familiar with these, they are webinars hosted by co-founder Gian Fulgoni which walk you through the previous quarter. You glean such things as, ‘people are scared’ or ‘rich people aren’t spending as much’ or ‘people really like coupons now’ or ‘lower income brackets are concerned about their jobs’. You also get some really great insights into how eCommerce is tracking against the rest of the economy. Really the gist is people are poor and scared. So good call comScore! Twist the knife a little will with a $199 ticket for an hour of your smooth jazz.
- My cell phone provider AT&T just called me and asked if they could lower my bill. Um, yeah, sure. Wait. WHAT? Turns out the texting tween got a little carried away and $90 dollars later I have a new best friend who moonlights as a customer service rep. Good job AT&T! Consider me a loyal customer until I forget about the kind gesture in approximately two months.
- Speaking of AT&T my office mate suggested they start offering a ‘Buy Back Blackberry’ program so that us late adopters could get on this dang app bandwagon. Then they could garner additional goodwill by creating a secondary program to give away the unloved BlackBerry’s and entitle this one, punnily enough, as ‘Handouts for the Phoneless.
This Wednesday I hereby declare AT&T the winner of my own personal thoughts.
