We just pushed the launch button on the premier real estate website in the area. So, if you’re looking to buy or sell a home, you’re in luck – the Ameri/Star agents now have a new trick in their bag. And if you’re not, you can always go check out the site to see the roof of your existing home using their dynamic satellite map. Whatever your aim, the site is easily one of the more ‘worth visiting’ sites we came across today.
Having just moved into our brand spankin’ new office, we’re enjoying all the benefits of trying to comprehend our new phone system. While figuring out how to transfer and pick up calls might seem like the most important functions to understand, we’re currently concentrating all our efforts on getting the sweet, sweet sounds of warbly celtic music off of our hold music.
You have to have priorities.
Next we’re moving on to customized ringers for every workstation.
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For those of you who don’t know David Hunnicutt of the Wellness Councils of America, he’s on the shortlist of the most charismatic and intelligent people in the world.
We’ve been working with him for eight years, so we felt like we knew him pretty well. Imagine our surprise when we found some grainy footage that would seem to portray Dr. Hunnicutt showing off his mad juggling skills under the alias of ‘Chris Bliss‘.
The jury is still out on whether this is legitimate footage or not, so we decided it was important to investigate a bit further and compare headshots from his/their two official websites:
Anyway, we’re still not convinced one way or the other, but we better get back to practicing our new juggling techniques. If David is doing it, it must in some way make you a healthier more effective worker. Don’t worry David, we won’t bill you for our time. This one’s on us.
Google has announced plans of parlaying its online advertising network into a unified platform that includes traditional media types. In addition to Google AdSense placement, they will soon be able to deliver advertiser messages via print, radio, television, streaming media, podcasts, Google Video, and probably holograms.
With Google stock trading down after announcements of slower than expected growth, we think they should just get it over with, buy Microsoft, and make their ads an integral part of the Windows OS.
There’s been a lot of buzz this week about announcements from AOL and Yahoo! regarding new email delivery fees. We’re sure that at least some of our readers use email, so we thought we’d post some thoughts on the topic.
Our first thought is a simple one: boo/hiss. Let us be the first to call these guys commies.
Our second thought, though, is that maybe this isn’t so bad…
On the upside, this is a valid effort towards forcing sender accountability. Since the mailer will have to pay to ensure deliverability, they will be giving up some anonymity. On the downside, the model allows messages to bypass spam filters, so a clever spammer can pay, get their spam delivered, and then disappear again like a ninja in the night.
For those of you not familiar with the announcements, the free email services will be charging sending companies anywhere between $0.0025 and $0.01 per recipient for guaranteed delivery.
So, how does this affect you? Well, if you’re marketing via mass email, you may need to increase your budget slightly. But, if you’re sending a Happy Birthday email to yourGrandma@aol.com, you won’t notice a thing.
Kudos to the industry giants for finding another way to monetize a ‘free’ service. It’s going to be interesting to see if the added revenue outweighs their sure-to-follow loss of market share.
You see, when joesomebody@aol.com starts noticing that he no longer gets his Joke of the Day or Victoria’s Secret Sales Offers (because of the new cost), he may be tempted to jump ship and get a gmail account. And that means Google is one step closer to taking over the world.
For those of you who do opt to keep your AOL / Yahoo! accounts, make sure you subscribe to our free RSS feeds – there’s no way we’re paying $0.07 to email PulpMail any more.
Electric Pulp was recently voted the Best Web Developer in a survey performed by the Sioux Falls Business Journal. We’ve found similar results in the past when polling ourselves, but this response actually came from outside examination making it a slightly more convincing (to our mothers).
The survey also names EP Partner, Aaron Mentele as the Best Up-And-Coming Business Leader under the age of 40. We knew Aaron was under 40, but the rest was no small shock – we can only assume someone was paid off.
All kidding aside, we were flattered by the nods. Hometown recognition is always fun.
While we don’t have any B-list comedians or Jamie Lynn Spears to make colorful comments on each topic, we do have bandwidth and a partially captive audience, so let’s get started, shall we?
Girls, girls, girls.
2005 was the first year we had a pregnant person on staff. See, Electric Pulp had long been overrun by 6’2″, brown-haired guys. Our office is painted in man colors, we talk about German cars and American motorcycles, we play cards and pick-up volleyball games…guy’s stuff, you get it. Enter 2005…two more non 6’2″, non-guy (but possibly German) recruits join the team and begin to tip the scale. Now we have things like birthday cakes and thank you cards. It’s a brave new Pulp.
New office.
Nope. 2006.
Web development.
Let the record show that ’05 Electric Pulp kicked ’04 Electric Pulp’s butt. While our press releases found a fate similar to PulpMail, our infatuation with the Internet has held strong. We met new clients/friends, launched progressive new technologies and introduced the world to a lot of really nice websites.
Wellness.
Marching alongside our friends at WELCOA, the Pulp dropped a great white shark into the personal health fish bowl. Wellstream Online is aggressively changing the face of the Personal Health Assessment industry and loudly proclaiming “nah, nah, nah”.
New technologies.
2005 was the year EP pioneered some new technologies. 2006 is the year we plan to talk about them though. Hold tight.
Babies.
One, that we know of.
Philanthropy.
We’re all heart at the Pulp…big sweeties. Those of you who see us in action might beg to differ, but we did produce some pretty exciting “good cause” projects in ’05. It’s our way of making up for a few years of adolescent indiscretion. Similarly, writing this is our way of proving to our mothers that we’re atoning.
That’s it.
What can we say? This was meant for pulpMail – we have to stop somewhere.