Posts tagged LOL
How a Banana Slicer Became a Viral Best Seller on Amazon by OPEN Forum
The Banana Slicer is an evolving joke, kept alive by more than 4,000 reviewers and being read and commented on by hundreds of thousands more. The results of this crowdsourced fiction, though, are much more than a joke—the product is actually selling.
For the past three months, the Hutzler 571 has remained in the Top 100 bestselling products in the Kitchen & Dining category on Amazon and shows no signs of slowing down.
What’s the most powerful lesson any small business can learn from this bestselling, albeit useless, product on Amazon?Never underestimate the power of a sense of humor.
Click here to read some of the hilarious reviews for the Hutzler 571 Banana Slicer on OPEN Forum.
(via How a Banana Slicer Became a Viral Bestseller on Amazon | | The New OPEN ForumThe New OPEN Forum)
Cartoon by P.C. Vey. For more: http://nyr.kr/UbuPMA
Cartoon of the Day
Did you know that today is the 8th anniversary of YouTube? The innovative video platform that changed the way we watch and share video content online published it’s first video today in 2005.
There’s No Place Like Work!
Bob Mankoff tested Yahoo C.E.O. Marissa Mayer’s policy of banning working from home by convening all of our cartoonists together in the office. It didn’t really work out: http://nyr.kr/YAQpNH
Cartoon by Peter C. Vey. For more from this week’s issue: http://nyr.kr/WUPvLj
Office hierarchy per usual.
Cartoon by Zachary Kanin. For more from this week’s issue: http://nyr.kr/ZQHGGD
Cartoon by Mick Stevens. For more from this week’s issue: http://nyr.kr/116NtNx
Where does your start-up funding come from?
