FriendBurst Blog

One thing I always heard when I was working in retail is that a person is X times more likely to tell someone else about a bad experience they had with a product or business than a good one. I forget how much the X was. I think it varied depending upon how strongly the person was trying to inspire us to provide better customer service.

You know those customer surveys you find on the back of pretty much every receipt you get nowadays? They usually off you a chance at $10,000 or so just for a few minutes of your time. Who calls those in? I don’t. No one I know does. Free money, and its not worth our time. I’ve told myself several times that as an experiment, one of these days, I’m going to commit to calling in each and every survey I get for a week or month just to say I’ve done that. Hasn’t happened.

That said, I thought I write a blog about some things I endorse. I came up with this idea a few weeks back when I noticed the coffee and cigarette stains on my lower front teeth had completely disappeared. I’ve used every “whitening” brand of toothpaste on the shelf, and none of them ever did anything of note. Until now. My first product endorsement: Crest 3D White!

Fittingly, when I went to their website to DL that image, it asked me if I wanted to participate in a survey. I declined.

This stuff actually does what it says in the ads! Within a couple weeks of using it, the brownish stains that came from always dragging from a cigarette in the same place on my lips were gone! Seriously. Staining that had been there for 10 years, gone in 2 weeks. No strips or gels or mouthpieces required. I used to be slightly self-conscious about my teeth. That’s gone along with the stains!

As long as we’re in the bathroom, I want to complain about a product too. I bought this shaving gel thinking it would work as well as the Edge Gel that I normally get. Like everything from the Barbasol brand, it’s was a dollar or two cheaper than the better stuff. Don’t buy this gel. It’s not the same as Edge. It’s mealy, doesn’t even want to stick to my face and I’ve cut myself a couple times using it.

Next on the list is UPS Online Tracking. Now, this isn’t exactly new technology, but I recently ordered something to be shipped that I am very excited about, excited enough to follow it on its path across the USA. What am I getting? One of those—>

More details when it gets here. With my confirmation e-mail from UPS, they provided a link to their online tracking function. Over the last few days, it has been so cool to see it make it’s little progress. Ooo! Now it’s in Bloomington! It’s made it to Indianapolis! Ooo! Now it’s in Illinois! I suppose I am anthropomorphizing as I pictured my new ukulele snug in its shipping box on a grand adventure that thanks to this tracking stuff, I could follow. At 3:23 AM, it got put on a delivery truck here in Washington and it’s riding around the city right now, waiting to come to my door!  So excited!!!

Of course, I endorse FriendBurst!

There were a few other things. I should have made a list because I can’t remember them now. I’ll conclude by endorsing making lists.

Anything new and amazing you’ve come across lately that you want to share?