In Response to Jackie Bunker . . .

In Jackie’s post about Amazon’s shipping service called Amazon Prime that guarantees every product purchased will be shipped within two days maximum. The cost to the shopper is only $79, but is supposed to be free for the first year for students. While shopping for textbooks this semester I went through Amazon and wanted to use this new way of getting faster shipping for free. But, when I tried to sign up I was unable because you needed a .edu email address for students and keene’s email is @ksc.mailcruiser.com.

To combat this I signed up for the 30-day trail for the Amazon Prime and tried upgrading my order, but I was unable to get an updated shipping time because I had ordered all my books used (because they were cheaper.) In the end I was just frustrated and did not get any better deal on shipping. I think that shoppers need to be wary of signing up for “bargains” like this one because do you really save more than $79 for getting your purchase a day earlier? Do you think that this is a good marketing ploy to get shoppers to waste their money? 

Advertising Through Teaching

As I was scanning a list of recent articles, I came across one titled "Attract More Clients By Teaching". Automatically I thought of Country Life Restaurant and how they want to teach people about eating healthy. As I read the article by Peter George, I was intrigued to see that he considered the best way to "getting your name out there" is to teach by holding seminars, workshops, teleseminars, or webinars. Something that George made very clear was that you have to teach consistently, because it only takes one bad night to ruin a bunch of good ones. 

I think that Country Life Restaurant could gain a lot of good publicity through teaching about veganism and making tasty vegan food. What would you like to learn from a vegan restaurant?

You can read more at: http://www.articlesfactory.com/articles/marketing/attract-more-clients-by-teaching.html