Iman Jalali

Online Retailers Fail With Usage of Discounts

In the current economy businesses everywhere are trying to drum up sales in anyway possible, most using discounts and coupons. Let’s just say I’m not a fan of discounting and coupons… as a consumer I love it, but as a business I try to avoid it at all costs. Part of it has to do [...]

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Big Media = Big Bullies

Dear Big Media, Plain and simple, you’re acting like big bullies. The two of you on the playground that are being the most troublesome bullies right now are Warner Bros. and Viacom. Let’s start with you Warner Bros., bullying companies like Netflix and Redbox into doing what you “think” is right for business. Notably, Warner [...]

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Blackhawks & Illinois Lottery = Fail

The Chicago Blackhawks recently launched a $2 scratch off ticket with the Illinois Lottery and as a Blackhawks fan I ended up picking up a few for fun. To play you first scratch off an area of the ticket to reveal the opponents score and then you scratch off the Blackhawks score. To win the [...]

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My Time at Tony Hsieh’s Shoe Factory aka Zappos

Back in July of 2009 I had the opportunity to spend a few days at Zappos headquarters and learn about every aspect of their business from hiring to VC funding and most importantly company culture. I was privileged to be invited for the very first “Zappos Insights Live Boot Camp” and can say it was [...]

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Vevo Means Business – Built For the Industry… Not the Fans!

Through the last few weeks Vevo has started to show its true colors more and more. It’s becoming quite apparent that Vevo was not built for the fans, but it was built for the industry to help with the monetization of music videos that are spread on so many different content providers. Since the 80’s [...]

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