Bob Garfield Quotes
What happens when you combine blogs, Google and millions of dissatisfied customers? An e-mob.
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Businesses can't afford to react to what their customers want; they need to anticipate their needs.
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It's called the Samsung Chromebook Plus, and it runs on an ARM processor, the same type of processor that powers the vast majority of smartphones and tablets. It was designed in close cooperation with Google.
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To be honest, I don't even exactly know how to set up a Google alert. My brother has me on Google alert. So do my parents. But I'm not even sure how it works.
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In order for innovation to happen, a bunch of things that aren't happening on closed platforms need to occur. Valve wouldn't exist today without the PC, or Epic, or Zynga, or Google. They all wouldn't have existed without the openness of the platform.
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The Russian customers don't feel very comfortable with online transactions.
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Google owns YouTube, and recently, I drew a comic about an idea for a YouTube feature - which they actually took seriously and implemented. So I'm thinking that maybe we'll have a future where Google is 'xkcd.'
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The advantage of the consumer businesses is they tend to be much broader-based, much larger number of customers, that tend to over time be a lot more predictable. The advantage of the enterprise companies is they are not as subject to consumer trend, fad, behavior.
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To customers, it's the shirt that matters, not where it's made.
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If I'm getting dressed up, I love Alice + Olivia, they have great pieces. I still look at all of the whowhatwhere.com and I read all of the fashion blogs. I'm working my way up to more grown up pieces.
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You know, I Google search my own name because I'm so self-obsessed!
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Google is not a synonym for research.
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2010 Foursquare Mayor Of The Year
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My task over the last two years hasn't just been to stop the bleeding. My task has also been to try to figure out how do we address some of the structural problems in the economy that have prevented more Googles from being created.
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The future of communicating with customers rests in engaging with them through every possible channel: phone, e-mail, chat, Web, and social networks. Customers are discussing a company's products and brand in real time. Companies need to join the conversation.
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I believe a balanced life is essential, and I try to make sure that all of our employees know that and live that way. It's crucial to me as a manager that I help ensure that our employees are as successful as our customers and partners.
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H&R Block is a company that has been advertising itself quite consistently as being in your corner. I think it is fair to say that they have not been in your corner but have been putting customers in the corner instead.
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The media landscape around the world, and the marketing landscape in particular, are radically changing at an incredible pace. Bob and his gang at R/GA have helped bring a vision of what the future is and what the possibilities are in reaching our patients and our customers.
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This merger is immensely attractive to us, because there was no overlap in customers or core competencies. We are now able to invest in more cities by increasing staff, sales and services.
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Some blogs have become the best check on monopoly mainstream journalism, and they provide a surprisingly frequent source of initiative reporting.
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No one has a corner on success. It is his who pays the price.
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Whenever I felt happy about having discovered something, the first encounter, not only with the public, with other musicians, with specialists, etc, was that they rejected it.
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Hey, Cormac. You ever have to deal with a PMSing werewolf?
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In every game, there's three teams out there. There's the two basketball teams and the team of officials. If the two teams are evenly matched, it can come down to number of possessions. If one out-of-bounds call goes the wrong way, that can be the difference.
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What happens when you combine blogs, Google and millions of dissatisfied customers? An e-mob.
