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Posts Tagged ‘Sky+’

Buy a Car Get a Free Handgun

By Denis Campbell • Aug 2nd, 2008 • Category: Business

The BBC reported a Missouri, USA car dealership offered a promotion where if one buys a car or truck, they can get either $250 in petrol vouchers or a free handgun. UK laws forbidding gun ownership aside for the moment, if they were to change, could this be a marketing opportunity for businesses in the [...]



Service’s Sorry State

By Denis Campbell • Jun 21st, 2008 • Category: Features

The Consumerist website showed this graphic recently about poor service received by Comcast Cable and telephone subscribers across the USA. It was part of an internally circulated Powerpoint presentation by a call centre manager on their CQE (Customer Quality Experience) programme and the lack of seriousness with which it is taken inside the company culture.
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The Tiger’s Roar

By Denis Campbell • Jun 17th, 2008 • Category: Features

Every golf fan owes a debt of gratitude to a 33-year old man who, for the last 5-days, dragged his surgically repaired left knee some 22-miles around the Torrey Pines’ south course defeating all comers in the 108th US Open Championship. 358 times, Tiger Woods exerted corkscrew-like downward pressure on that knee, swinging a metal [...]



Indiana Jones and The Kingdom of Cash

By Denis Campbell • May 29th, 2008 • Category: Business

Memorial Day weekend in the USA, a similar 3-day Bank Holiday weekend in the UK and a Pentecost holiday week across much of continental Western Europe meant this was the ideal weekend to launch the biggest blockbuster film of the 2008 summer season. After a long absence, Harrison Ford dusted off his Indiana Jones character [...]