If all the time spent on the Internet were put towards the good of mankind, what do you think the top outcomes/solutions would be? Mine are:

• Disease cure
• A greener environment
• Smarter children

Those are a few of mine. Share yours.

Poor customer service really drives me batty. This weekend I was actually told by someone:

“You need to stop being unrealistic with what your looking for”.

Well, this unrealistic customer took his business elsewhere and actually found a better deal. Surprised?

Customers are more educated than ever (thanks to the Interpipes). No longer can you fool the majority of customers because access to comparison info is limited or hard to come by. Comparison info is plentiful and consumers are using it.

Customers shop and compare online before heading into a store and dealing with the hassel of the sales associate, most of which don’t give a rats arse if I buy from them or not.

So the next time you think you can bully a customer into your over-priced merchandise, remember customer education is increasing and customers are exercising their options more and more.

Did you know…

• 33 is the largest positive integer that can not be expressed as a sum of different triangular numbers.
• Alexander the Great died at the age of thirty-three
• 33 is the atomic number of arsenic
• Famous athletes who’ve worn the number include: Larry Bird, Patrick Ewing, Patrick Roy, and Tony Dorsett
• A normal human spine has 33 vertebrae when the bones that form the coccyx are counted individually
• Anyone born on April 21, 1974 is 33 today - Happy Birthday

The facts on thirty-three, via wikipedia.

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