John Congdon


Archive for the ‘Business’ Category

01 Jul, 2010

Woot Gets Acrquired by Amazon.com

Posted by: John Congdon In: Business

Amazon is making huge waves recently.  I just finished reading Delivering Happiness which is sort of about Zappos and their rise from nothing to being acquired by Amazon.  The book is much more than that, but it does tell the story.
Anyway, Amazon has also acquired the fun loving Woot!  And in their normal sarcastic way, [...]

31 Aug, 2009

Creating a Win/Win Situation With Promotions

Posted by: John Congdon In: Business

I am constantly surprised about how some business are operated.  It never seems like the customer’s feelings are taken into consideration. 
Let’s take my recent purchase from Adobe.com.  As usually, as soon as I see an “Enter Promotion Code” box, I immediately assume there is a promotion available.  I see a live chat window pop [...]

09 Jul, 2009

Big Business Needs To Realize The Power Shift

Posted by: John Congdon In: Business

Life isn’t so easy for big business anymore.  If you complained back in the day, a corporate giant could just brush you off.  Nowadays, with the speed of information, this just can’t happen.  We have seen this a few times recently, with the most recent being United Air.  Watch this video that was created to [...]

10 Oct, 2008

Advertising in Today’s Economy

Posted by: John Congdon In: Business

Gary Vaynerchuck’s take on advertising in today’s economy. Google’s stock is down, but you can still make money. ROI is the answer. Watch his video, let me know your thoughts below.


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I am a web programmer that specialized in E-Commerce, SEO, and Warehousing.

I currently work for bowlingball.com as the lead programmer. I am constantly working to make this website the premier website in the bowling industry, with a much bigger vision for the future.

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