Business Blog Consulting had a nice post last week about the awesome customer service of Zappos, and the horrid customer service of Spirit Airlines. Now I have never used either of these companies, I don’t fly much and I buy all my clothes (OK, not all, but most) from Ross. Actually bought a way cool pair of Rocket Dog shoes for $13 last week on clearance at Ross - way cheaper than Zappos.
Regardless, if Zappos customer service is as good as it sounds, YOU should probably buy from them.
On a completely unrelated note, the Boston Red Sox swept our Colorado Rockies in the World Series last night. I guess The Lisa was right about her beloved baseball team. Grrr…
So, the Rockies haven’t fared well against the Boston Red Sox. As of this writing, the Rocks are down three games in the series. Now, I normally don’t hate the BoSox, but when they are playing the home team…
Worst part is, not only is Boston beating up on my baseball team, the New England Patriots are busy annihilating teams on what looks like a steamroll to the Super Bowl. Appearantly Bill Belicheck has decided the way to win back the hearts and minds of America, after his cheating ways, is to embarrass his opponent in every game he coaches. Today’s 52-7 whipping of the Washington Redskins reminded me of the Nebraska (another team I hated) glory days when Tom Osborne would run the score up on every poor team he played.
Worst case scenario, the Red Sox will sweep the Rockies to be the 2007 World Series winners and the New England Patriots will beat the Colts next week, go undefeated and win the Super Bowl again.
The only thing that could make me hate Boston more is if the Bruins knock the Avs out of the Stanely Cup race.
Of course, best case would be the Rocks winning four straight to be Series Champs, Colts beat the Pats next week, and the Broncos rally to win the Super Bowl. Let’s hope for that.
The worst part, the Rockies are getting the heat for this when I’m sure they paid a princely sum of money to Paciolan to provide the online ticket sales.
October 19th, 2007 at 10:47 am by Bob Weber (business)
One thing just struck me this week. After six months of self employment I made a realization.
For my whole work life, my normal day was spent watching the clock. This isn’t to say that I didn’t have a good work ethic and my employers weren’t happy with my work, but every day was a timed event.
These days I find that work is much different. I still work a fairly normal 8-5 work day, of course with much more flexibility, but I gauge my day much more on the tasks that are in my inbox. I often find myself working on things late into the night, or on the weekends. The days seem to flow together much differently than they used to.
So, anyone out there know what the killer online store software is?
Currently I’m working with creloaded, and am NOT impressed. It’s buggy, requires a tremendous amount of code editing for proper installation, has a limited feature set like no support for local (city/county) tax zones, poorly documented and just hard to use overall - and I bought the ‘pro’ version.
If anyone has thoughts or reviews on store software, please let me know.
