Category: Products
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Still obsessed with the Chevy Volt
I’m sitting here watching the Olympics live without using the DVR to skip commercials. And I see the new Volt commercial and it induces chillbumps. After following the product development for many months now, I’m still as excited by the Chevrolet Volt as I was about the Wii before its launch. It’s sexy, it’s fresh,…
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Free sells
Four years ago my friend Jeremy and his wife came for a visit to Dallas. We both grew up around Shreveport, Louisiana – you know, the town where the actors in that Oliver Stone movie had a fistfight last weekend. Shreveport had no Starbucks at the time of Jeremy’s visit. Thus Jeremy had never gone…
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401(k) + Debit Card ≠ Peanut Butter + Jelly
Some things just don’t go together. I’d never heard of this before seeing it on Yahoo! Finance today. A spokesperson for the company offering a 401(k) debit card offers this, ahem, reasoning: “…the cards give people a sense of confidence and control, which in turn encourages otherwise reluctant people to participate in retirement programs, knowing…
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Get Rich Slowly makes Advantis get rich quickly
J.D. asked “Is a 6.25% Checking Account Too Good to be True?” Advantis Credit Union might not yet realize this, but this single post made yesterday may well prove the most effective marketing tool for the CU in the new year. Why? Less than 24 hours after being posted, a Google search for “Portland checking”…
Trey Reeme 