A plethora of new (Google) Android phones, an unlocked Google handset available through retail stores, and T-Mobile’s soon to be unveiled new pricing scheme promises to deliver the new black.
Posts Tagged: Pricing
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Daily Links for October 7th through October 10th
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- There’s No Place Like Home, Americans are Returning to Localism | Newgeography.com – Thriving neighborhood restaurants are one small data point in a larger trend I call the new localism. The basic premise: the longer people stay in their homes and communities, the more they identify with those places, and the greater their commitment to helping local businesses and institutions thrive, even in a downturn. Several factors are driving this process, including an aging population, suburbanization, the Internet, and an increased focus on family life. And even as the recession has begun to yield to recovery, our commitment to our local roots is only going to grow more profound. Evident before the recession, the new localism will shape how we live and work in the coming decades, and may even influence the course of our future politics.
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Daily Links for September 13th
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- What We Can Learn About Pricing From Menu Engineers – Rapp is a menu engineer. He helps restaurants maximize revenue by hacking common flaws in human decision-making. For example, by simply removing “$” signs from prices, people are less intimidated by them. And he advises against listing items from least to most expensive, because that focuses the consumer on price. Instead he mixes up items, making it hard to find their price — thereby encouraging the customer to emotionally commit to something before finding out what it costs. But my favorite strategy of his is that of putting some absurdly expensive item on the menu. Rapp doesn’t expect many consumers to buy it, but having it there makes expensive items appear cheap by comparison. Think about it: How many times have you ordered a bottle of wine in the middle of the price range?
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Daily Links for September 9th
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- STATS: Flat Month for Social Media, With Some Surprises – Part of the reason could have merely been the summer slumber, which causes a drop in traffic on almost all Internet destinations; since traffic growth was almost flat on Facebook and Twitter in both July and August, we can probably expect some healthy growth again in September. Summer hasn’t been bad for everyone though, as some social sites have done very well in July and August.
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Daily Links for August 9th
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- The Daily Dish | By Andrew Sullivan: Murdoch and Sirius [and Howard Stern] – Says a reader: How did he go from a must-hear personality who was constantly in the news for his antics or his outrageousness to a "whatever happened to?" has been? Simply, he was put behind a pay wall. Oprah has her own channel, but I've never heard it mentioned. If the King of All Media and a woman who has enough influence to swing a national election can't get people to pay, why on earth does Murdoch think he can?
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Windows 7 Pre-Order Pricing Announced
Microsoft has announced the full-retail and upgrade pricing for Windows 7, with pre-order pricing being deeply discounted. Details are here via Engadget; with the Amazon page for Home Premium Upgrade ($50) is here, and Business Premium ($100) here (via Slickdeals).
