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Fail Compilation July 2012. [VIDEO]
Japanese Robot Restaurant Attracts Customers with Giant Dancing Robots
1890s Problems Meme
Possible Future Apple Products
Do Online Students Cheat More Often? [Infographic]

Fail Compilation July 2012. [VIDEO]

Posted: 25 Jul 2012 04:56 PM PDT

Here is a compilation of videos that will make you wince, laugh, shriek and cry... probably all at once.

Japanese Robot Restaurant Attracts Customers with Giant Dancing Robots

Posted: 25 Jul 2012 03:39 PM PDT

At The Robot Restaurant in Tokyo they offer a unique brand of entertainment to their visitors. Giant robots with female torsos operated by girls in bikinis dance among the tables and put on a "sexy" show for the audience. It's straight up creepy.

Via Dailymail

1890s Problems Meme

Posted: 25 Jul 2012 02:51 PM PDT

The 1890s poster girl is a very unhappy woman. Given the problems of her day, we're guessing most women in the 1890s were unhappy.

Check out our 20 favorites below, and if you want to see more or create your own, head on over to Quick Meme.

Possible Future Apple Products

Posted: 25 Jul 2012 01:27 PM PDT

With Apple always pushing the envelope with clean design, innovative tech decisions and strategic product launches, these are a few product campaigns that Apple could develop in the near future.

iPets

HiTops

iBrew

iceBox

iceCream

iCycle

iPlay

iQua

iSight

iRosol

Via Gusnyc

Do Online Students Cheat More Often? [Infographic]

Posted: 25 Jul 2012 11:35 AM PDT

73% of online students admit to cheating (versus 56% for blended learning).
89% of college presidents believe the internet facilitates this behavior.
If you get a chance, please take a look at our infographic which also goes into more detail about what can be done to avoid cheating and plagiarism in online education.

Click on Image to Enlarge.

Via: OnlineCollege.org

New College Shopping Sheet Helps Students Know Before They Owe

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Wednesday, July 25, 2012

New College Shopping Sheet Helps Students Know Before They Owe

Almost every day, President Obama gets letters from students who are swimming in student loan debt. While this administration continues to do everything we can to make sure that college remains affordable, we also are focused on making it easier for families to understand the costs and benefits of higher education up-front.

That's why yesterday we released the "Shopping Sheet," a new tool that will make it easier for families to choose a college that is both high-quality and affordable.

Learn more and check out the new Shopping Sheet:

Seth's Blog : The circles of marketing

The circles of marketing

Most amateurs and citizens believe that marketing is the outer circle.

Marketing = advertising, it seems. The job of marketing in this circle is to take what the factory/system/boss gives you and hype it, promote it and yell about it. This is what so many charities, politicians, insurance companies, financial advisors, computer makers and well, just about everyone does.

The next circle in has so much more leverage. This is the circle of telling a story that resonates with a tribe. This is the act of creating alignment, of understanding worldviews, of embracing and elevating the weird. Smart marketers in this circle acknowledge that their product or service isn't for everyone, but bend over backwards to be sure that some people will be able to fall in love with it.

The next circle in easily overlooked. This is the act of changing what surrounds the actual product or service, adding enough usability and support and atmosphere that the perception of the product itself changes. Zappos did this for shoes. Ikea almost willfully goes in the other direction with its furniture assembly and delivery approach. When you go to an expensive restaurant, you're buying far more than what the chef cooked. Products and services are only commodities if you treat them that way.

And the innermost circle is the product or service itself. When the thing you sell has communication built in, when it is remarkable and worth talking about, when it changes the game--marketing seems a lot easier. Of course, that's because you did the marketing when you invented the thing, saving you the expense and trouble of yelling about it.

When in doubt, when your marketing isn't working, the answer is easy: go one circle in.