I was leafing through the coupons section of the newspaper this weekend and came across this gem: This is perhaps the greatest piece of marketing I’ve ever seen – selling a $2 bill for $4. It’s like selling ice to an Eskimo. Any American can walk/drive/run to their nearest bank
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Twitter Weekly Updates for 2012-03-18
How about those Buffalos? @sarahlawer # Capital One's Alec Baldwin commercial: Plaid Tie or Pad Thai? # TNT's online NCAA player is terrible. Can't view in Full Screen mode. #weak #refusetopay3.99 # First good game of the day. #GoRams # I miss Gus Johnson # Taxes done. # Google just
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No recycle bin at Beulah Park in Columbus, Oh # Best piece of journalism of the year: WSJ applies the transitive property to NCAA Men's Basketball: http://t.co/Vwnw2JEo # Let's go #quakers # The @Bing Homepage picture looks very similar to the picture I took at Mt. Rainier in my Twitter
Continue readingDon’t pick an NCAA Tournament winner that didn’t win their own conference
NCAA Football fans were up in arms about Alabama making it to the BCS title game when they didn’t win their own conference championship. I wondered, is winning a conference championship a leading indicator of winning the NCAA Men’s Basketball Tournament? Methodology I looked at the 64+ tournament era (since
Continue readingDoes posting something on Google Plus result in any traffic?
With my recent post on #Linsanity, I did a test to see how much traffic various social networks generated. Specifically, I wanted to see if there was any value to posting a link on Google+. I posted a link to my post on the three major Social Networks: Facebook, Twitter,
Continue readingTwitter Weekly Updates for 2012-03-04
#Infographics are so 2011 # 3 minutes on Google+ for the month sounds about right. http://t.co/51l6755U # Twitter Weekly Updates for 2012-02-26: With a win tonight, Penn moves into a first place tie in the Ivy League #… http://t.co/h2vGJbuC # In 3 years, no one will care that Ryan Braun
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With a win tonight, Penn moves into a first place tie in the Ivy League # Will #Moneyball win any Oscars? @justinmorg # How to enter an NFL Draft with only 2 picks: Each team is assigned 7 picks in each NFL draft, but somehow the Oa… http://t.co/uo1gTfCz # Thanks
Continue readingHow to enter an NFL Draft with only 2 picks
Each team is assigned 7 picks in each NFL draft, but somehow the Oakland Raiders are entering the 2012 draft with only 2 picks – a 5th round and 6th round selection. How did they do it? Basically, they traded their picks for Quarterbacks Here’s a chart of where their
Continue readingWas Zynga’s IPO really a “flop?”
Zynga’s IPO hit the market on December 16th, 2011, and the stock price sank from the $10 IPO price to $9.50 at the closing bell. Was the stock a “flop,” as so many commentators stated? In my opinion, not at all! Zynga was the real winner in this. Zynga raised
Continue readingIs #Linsanity bigger than #Tebowmania?
I read a Business Insider report today that said searches for Jeremy Lin have now outpaced Tim Tebow, and I didn’t believe it. I used Google trends to do my own analysis. It turns out that it’s a dead heat. Searches for Jeremy Lin are higher than Tim Tebow, but
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