Several times in the past weeks I’ve had the pleasure of touring the produce department of the Zupan’s store on the corner of West Burnside and 23rd in Portland.
The Zupan’s stores seem to pride themselves on opulent sensory overloaded experience. I’m reminded of Gelson’s Market in Pacific Palisades, California. Lots of beautiful food stacked on very tall shelves.
In a store with such an abundance of amazing food and experiences, I was more than a little miffed today when I found NO raw foods section. How can such a high end brand be so behind the times?
When I asked the very friendly grocery clerk about the raw food section, she grimaced and said, “We don’t have one of those, yet,” and that I should try New Seasons or Whole Foods. The thing is, I’m on foot/transit, and I’m not going to trek across town for lunch.
The old standby for a raw foodist is the produce section, which she recommended. I made my way over there and found a pint of very yummy ripe figs and a creamy ripe haas avocado. A perfect lunch for me today.
In addition to getting into the raw food groove, it looks like Zupan’s could use some serious social media expertise on their marketing team. Such a great store should be known and loved by all!
As someone who gripes as little as possible, I have finally come to the end of my rope. No matter what anyone “in the business” says, VoIP sucks. Using Skype for business phone calls sucks. Google Voice sucks. It is all unreliable, intermittent and the sound quality just plain sucks. There, I said it. I [...]
I recently had the pleasure of becoming acquainted with @NealSchaffer of Windmill Networking. Neal came to Portland to give a talk at a conference, and asked @JoshuaWaldman to set up a gathering. Joshua asked me if I’d get the word out, so I set up a Portland Twitter Users Group impropmtu Tweet Up and invited [...]
I’ve been offering an audience building service on Twitter for nearly a year. As the service has been going through it’s pre-beta and early beta phases, it’s been very successful at attracting targeted audiences for my clients. Having surpassed even my own highest hopes, the service is now more than ready for prime time. The [...]
Have you heard of Venmo yet? Most people haven’t. I was a customer of PayPal’s rival, X.Com back in 1998, and was happy when they merged with PayPal. Since PayPal’s acquisition by eBay, at least from my point of view, everything’s gone down hill. As someone who markets products and services via web sites, PayPal [...]
Wednesday evening, April 28th from 6 – 8pm at WebTrends, Portland’s social media posse will gather for the big debriefing for f8, chirp, Inside Social Apps, and maybe more! I’ll be giving a talk on social media in Lake Oswego, so I won’t be able to join you. Rob Derstadt, Justin Kistner, Scott Kveton, and [...]
We had a really great time last night at the Portland Twitter Users Group TweetUp at The Backstage Bar in Southeast Portland. It was our first @PDXTUG TweetUp. I’ve participated in many software and hardware “Users Groups” over the years and thought it would be fun to create one for Twitter users in Portland. Using [...]
Not to worry! All of my personal blog posts can be found at thubten.me. The transition to two blog sites has been going very smoothly, if a bit dusty. As always, your comments are welcome.
Recently, I’ve been paying a great deal of attention to introducing my social media strategy services, primarily TwicheYourself.com. My blogs have suffered some, but I’ve been doing my best to keep things updated. I recently discovered a WordPress theme called Thesis, which will change how I create and update my blogs. Thesis is more of [...]
I really like the Amazon widget below. It allows me to share books that I have found enlightening and entertaining.
I'm a voracious reader, so getting my picks down to these few was not an easy task. Enjoy!
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Several times in the past weeks I’ve had the pleasure of touring the produce department of the Zupan’s store on the corner of West Burnside and 23rd in Portland. 