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Dead Cat Marketing

Sup­pose your busi­ness sells some­thing to a cus­tomer.  Fol­low­ing the sale, you gather no infor­ma­tion about them.  Instead you send the cus­tomer out the door and off into the uni­verse, hop­ing they will come back again some­day.  In the time that fol­lows, you make no direct or indi­rect attempt to deter­mine if the cus­tomer is […]

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The Physics of Marketing — The Doppler Effect

Have you ever won­dered why music blar­ing out of an approach­ing car changes in pitch as it passes by you and then moves fur­ther away from you.   This phe­nom­e­non can be described by the Doppler Effect, named for Aus­trian physi­cist Chris­t­ian Doppler.   Who knew Doppler was more than just the ridicu­lous brand name of the […]

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The Physics of Marketing — Fraunhofer Diffraction

Joseph von Fraun­hofer lived a short, dif­fi­cult life, but that did not stop him from becom­ing one of the world’s most tal­ented mak­ers of opti­cal glass and an expert on the dis­per­sion of light.  Accord­ing to Wikipedia, he was orphaned at age 11.  Fraun­hofer then went to work as an appren­tice for a glass maker.  […]

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The Physics of Marketing — Bragg’s law

Born in 1890, William Lawrence Bragg was the son of a  Sir William Henry Bragg, a pro­fes­sor of sci­ence and math­e­mat­ics.  So in his work, William Lawrence Bragg was sim­ply car­ry­ing on the fam­ily busi­ness.  In 1915 the two father and son  shared a Nobel Prize for their work which involved using X-rays to analyze […]

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