Take a look at Mashable’s 100 most social brands. See any logic here? Among the top ten were: “iPhone, Disney, CNN, MTV, NBA, iTunes, Wii, Apple, Xbox and Nike rounded out the top 10 in 2009, respectively.” On lower rungs we saw premium fashion brands and food, but the take away here for business is [...]
Posts Tagged as ‘iphone’
November 17, 2009
What to Do When Your iPhone Only Works on Speakerphone?!?!?
So at first I thought it might be pocket lint. You know, a nice good ball of blue and white lint that got stuck in the earphone jack, but after troubleshooting with the help of many websites and YouTube videos (like the one below), I realized we had a bigger problem here than I thought. [...]
August 11, 2009
The iDoEveryThingButWorkWellAsAPhone Phone (my little rant)
Is it me or does the iPhone do everything else extremely well except … well, phone? Before purchasing this wonderful device and entering the world of the mobile, I had a $10 Go Phone from AT&T. It was tiny, plastic, did text only, but always worked. Ever since I got an iPhone, I have experienced [...]
July 15, 2009
Addicted to iPhone Apps
Two weeks into my iPhone oddessey and I’m already hooked on apps. The ability to choose from over 100,000 add ons for my phone was so overwhelming at first that I didn’t download anything for the first week. Rather I sat back, did some research, and tried to choose useful apps that I would actually [...]
July 12, 2009
Why Apple Gets the Best Net Promoter Scores (50th Post!)
For my 50th post on Mintz’s Words, I wanted to talk about net promoter scores and my experience with Apple. That one simple question drives business today. It is the reason for the proliferation of social networking among companies and has MBA toting business leaders obsessed with landing in the 9-10 point range. At that [...]
June 26, 2009
iPhone and iMac Woes: How Do You Like Them Apples?
There are 53 days left until we move to Israel, but who’s counting? Before we go, we want to purchase some Apples, yes them Apples and we like them just fine. The question is, which ones do we go with? Our original plan was to buy a Mac Mini with a flat screen and gear, [...]
May 12, 2009
Apple’s Investor Call – Disappointment?
Apple said “no” to a Mac OS netbook, but tried to pump us up about better iPhones, bigMacs, and revealed bits about a competitive pricing plan for mobile users that will keep low-cost competitors at bay. I guess that is good news for us poor people. Read all about this teaser to June’s developer’s conference [...]
March 23, 2009
The Very Hungry Book Worm … (after he ate the iPhone he felt MUCH better)
“Honey,” Wonder Woman asked, “do you want me to pack your shaver?” “Hmm? … Yeah,” I said, half looking up from the books in my hand. As she continued to pack the essentials for my business trip to Boston: toothbrush, underwear, socks, etc., I was stuck on deciding whether to pack an unread, hardcover copy [...]
January 14, 2010
Kippa Man: Making Me the First Custom Apple Logo Kippa in Israel
Skullcaps, lids, yarlmakes, or kippas, whatever you call the head covering we observant Jews wear, one thing is for certain: if custom, knitted ones (“sroogies”) are your thing there is no better place than Kippa Man to get yours made. Located conveniently in the Shuk in Jerusalem, they have tons of pre-made designs to choose [...]
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