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		<title>Thank You Barnes &amp; Noble For My Coffee! via iPhone App</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 07 Aug 2009 17:37:21 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[ Perhaps you have not heard, but Barnes &#38; Noble recently launched their very own iPhone application so you can easily access their library of books, find stores and much more.  I went there today becuase not only do I love Barnes &#38; Noble, but they have a current promotion that if you download this [...]]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p><a href="http://tydowning.com/wp-content/uploads/2009/08/WindowsLiveWriterThankYouBarnesNobleForMyCoffeeviaiPhoneA_B73FBarnesiphone4.jpg"><img style="border-top-width: 0px; border-left-width: 0px; border-bottom-width: 0px; margin: 0px 10px 10px 0px; border-right-width: 0px" src="http://tydowning.com/wp-content/uploads/2009/08/WindowsLiveWriterThankYouBarnesNobleForMyCoffeeviaiPhoneA_B73FBarnesiphone_thumb2.jpg" border="0" alt="Barnes &amp; Noble Free Coffe - iPhone App" width="129" height="176" align="left" /></a> Perhaps you have not heard, but Barnes &amp; Noble recently launched their very own <a href="http://www.barnesandnoble.com/iphone/" target="_blank">iPhone application</a> so you can easily access their library of books, find stores and much more.  I went there today becuase not only do I love Barnes &amp; Noble, but they have a current promotion that if you download this iPhone application, they give you a free cup of cofffee.  Guess what? It worked! Once I downloaded the app, I went into the store and claimed my joe.  I have videos below to prove it!</p>
<p>Have you thought about building an iPhone (or BB) application for your brand or business? It&#8217;s certainly something to think about.</p>
<p><strong>Take these sobering stats:</strong> 60 percent of the world&#8217;s population now use mobile phones, with approximately 4.1 billion mobile-phone subscriptions annually&#8230; Mobile devices totally eclipse home computer sales, so my advice is to take a look at your business, and see if an application like this would be a good fit, as it would just continue to do the following:</p>
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<li>Keep you in touch with your customers.</li>
<li>Allow your customers to be in &#8217;more&#8217; in control of your brand. (Uh yeah, they already control it)</li>
<li>Something you can use as a marketing tool.</li>
<li>It&#8217;s the future&#8230;actually, the future of mobile marketing is already here.</li>
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<p>Let me know if you need advice on how, and where you even begin to build an application like this&#8230;I have my connections!</p>
<p>Now go ahead and watch the videos, but please, I apoligize in advance for the last video, it shows a &#8220;massive&#8221; double chin&#8230;Im workin on it ok!</p>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 04 Feb 2009 05:07:49 +0000</pubDate>
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