Wednesday June 09, 2004

MaryMaryHitMePlenty

One could never miss or resist clicking on the link to our premier blogger MaryMaryQuiteContrary. Afterall, being fixated at the top of the "Most Popular Weblogs" roster, and with 3 times plenty hits as the 2nd in line, the self-mutiplying effect is just fascinating.

To new bloggers or just surfing-bys, "What's this really popular blog?" Mmm... *click*. Ka-ching! Hits += 1.

Classic lesson on marketing. Build a brand name, get to the top, keep your customers, the new ones just follows. It helps too where there's bells and whistles, i.e. lots of pictures, stories, and my gosh, a contest with real prizes! And ships! How do you beat that? After all, it's Duke the stuffed one.

Mary knows her market well, being a marketing person. (Shhhh, being new here, I looked her up in NameFinder. ;-))
(Btw, NameFinder is so cool, and was not even by PDE aka R&D. Sometimes I wonder what else Sun have up his sleeves.)

Now how does one dislodge a market leader? Not that I have the urge (or believe I could) but you can't deny the thought.

It's like, how do you out-sell M$? Clearly a great product alone doesn't do it. Unix is clearly more rebust, scalable and not to mention, secure. Usability-wise, Mr. Jobs had it covered. But the Windows empire is still there.

Take a page from IBM PC clones war in the 80's. Long long ago in a galaxy far far away... clones sold at fifth of the price still make good profit, the clones fester, killed the IBM PC.

The fact that you got here is probably bec. of the cloned blog title "MaryMary...". 8-) I must admit, it's a conspiracy, but I prefer the term "Experiment". [tongue-in-cheeks]

(2004-06-09 09:09:09.0) Permalink Comments [3]

How could you not like children?

Ask me that question a year ago and I would say, "how many ways would you like the answers?"

But now, how could I not like children? Look at this cutie cute cute baby baby... ahem... btw, that's my daughter, she's turning 1 year old this month.

Even my mother submitted that I was not the children-kind-of-person; even when I, was a child myself.

I was may be 7 or 8, a tidy, I should say "pristine", toy crate was an obsession. Every toy was in it's box, and every box has it's place in the crate and all was in harmony. Btw, I am the youngest of four so absolutely no one touches my toy box. Except of course, the "guest".

When mother says, go "play" with your little friend! Gasp, my worse nightmare! I wished she meant hide-and-seek. They're just like "guest" accounts, password is always "welcome", they log right in and head straight for the confidential and proprietary. The worse was the phrase "Go play with", which was always taken as an implied "take ownership" permission to what they want and trash as they see fit!

I wonder what happened to that toy crate? You should see my cubicle today. Everything got it's place alright, which is just about anywhere that fits, or not. Ok, mostly not. It's not gonna get me any cleanliness award from Workplace Resources but I can find my stuff. Afterall, I need to keep up with the image of an engineer.

Parenthood does strange things to people. I couldn't imagine how I would take care of my own children which is may be why we waited so long before having our first. But now, just can't ever seems to spend enough time on my new obsession!

(2004-06-09 03:03:03.0) Permalink Comments [1]