Zappos is really good at this. See below and read some of the recent order confirmation email I received from them…
Good news!
Although you originally ordered Standard (4 to 5 business days) shipping
and handling, we have given your order special priority processing in
our warehouse and are upgrading the shipping and delivery time frame for your order.
Your order will ship out today and be given a special priority shipping status so that
you can receive your order even faster than we originally promised!
Please note that this is being done at no additional cost to you. It is
simply our way of saying thank you for being our customer.
**UPDATE** Zappos rocks! I placed my order at 4:10pm on 08/19. Received shipment confirmation at 6:26pm same day. Package delivered to my door at 12:19pm on 08/20. That is about 20 hours from placing my order to wearing my new shoes…and I only paid for standard shipping. My order total was also only $29 after using a $35 credit Zappos had voluntarily issued me in the past for a very slight issue with a previous order! No sales tax, so shipping charges, and my shoes came in 20 hours for $29. Zappos knows how to impress customers. I will be back!
During breakfast today I read a cool article in the latest issue of Fast Company. As I sometimes do with dead-tree publications I read when I see a cool article…I’ll find the article online at their website and share it with a few people I think would like it. But, FastCompany.com doesn’t have the article I read in their magazine today on their website yet (or I can’t find it, just as bad). Shouldn’t every magazine/periodical (that wants to survive) have all their articles easily accessible online the moment they go to print? Better yet, why not have a shortcut web link to the online version of the article prominently listed in the article someplace? Does Fast Company think they’ll sell more magazines this way or something? Seriously what is the logic. Some magazines are doing a good job of this, Fast Company, not so much.
If Cuil search results were not cool enough already, today I noticed some visits to this website coming from pages blocked in the robots.txt file for this site. What’s up with that Cuil?
If you’ve got a bunch of rooms in your house/apartment (I’ve got basically 3 rooms and 3 TV’s) and like to have the option of TV in each room, but hate paying for additional cable/satellite boxes, check out what I’ve figured out for my place:
- Get one of these distribution amplifiers, and hook it up to the outgoing signal from your cable box. When you use one of these signal amps each TV will receive the same quality signal vs. using a splitter that reduces quality. [Read more →]
If you have a Mac, hate the post office like I do, and were wondering what software/system works good for printing online postage using a Mac…I’m testing Endicia for Mac right now and so far it rocks! You can very very easily print postage directly onto envelopes or right onto shipping labels, and do lots of online postage stuff super easy. The Endicia Mac software is seriously easy to use, as it should be. After doing a little research, Endicia seemed like the best option for a Mac. Stamps.com, for example, does not support Mac. (uhhh Stamps.com you need to get that figured out like, yesterday) Check it out if you print lots of postage or if you ever have a need to, keep it in mind. And if anyone out there would like to suggest a better Mac alternative to Endicia, please drop a comment!
I’m not sure how to feel about this (see pic below). I mean, getting search rankings in Google is hard enough without competing with Google.com itself…do you have any comments/thoughts on this?
The new “Cuil” supposed Google-killer search engine officially launched…and if you take a quick peek at the below search results I got for a pretty basic search when I tested it out, you can see that Cuil is not that cool…
While John McCain and Barack Obama argue about who can bring about “change”, there is another man who keeps working hard to continue his fight for something that really matters: Liberty.
I heard a joke that had me laughing hard last night at the Hermosa Beach comedy club that went something like:
Don’t you hate it when people text you with a message that says “call me”. I mean, they didn’t call you so why should you call them? I’m going to start leaving people voice mails that say “text me”!
Seriously, please nobody text me “call me” or call me and say “text me”.
And if anyone out there would like to suggest a better Mac alternative to Endicia, please drop a comment!
