Free Anonymous Phone Number Service

Posted on June 23rd, 2007 by thetshirtnexus.
Categories: Offline Promotion, General Business.

What a neat application. Initially invented for use on Craigslist, numbr provides a free number that will forward to the phone number of your choice. The additional options surprised me. For instance:

  • You can pick a number from a selection of US cities
  • If your number is unavailable you can enable voice mail messages to be emailed to you
  • You can set it to not disturb you between 9pm and 8am in the US time zone of your choice
  • You can enable Call Screening which requires the caller to leave a short message which you will hear before taking the call
  • Your number will automatically expire in set increments of your choice (1 day to 1 month) but if you need your number beyond 1 month you can renew your number for free or if you want to expire it early you can do that too.

There aren’t even all of the features.
Aside from just using for personal online security purposes, this could be handy for fun store promotions, or maybe a contest of sorts.

Photo from flickr user sophistikittenlin

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Online Sales Lose Steam - New York Times

Posted on June 17th, 2007 by thetshirtnexus.
Categories: General Business.

Online Sales Lose Steam - New York Times

Article about the decreased growth rate of internet sales. Brick and Mortar stores have responded to internet sales by making their stores more appealing.

Thanks to the tip off on the article by NormalBrains from the CP Forums.

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Countries My Shirts Have Visited

Posted on June 3rd, 2007 by thetshirtnexus.
Categories: General Business.

This tool, which draws on the Google APi, is supposed to be used to show the countries you’ve visited. I decided to show some of my sales report data on it instead.

I only ran a few random Decembers worth of sales, it was too time consuming to look them all up and I couldn’t bring up the report for my entire history because the server complained. I looked up unknown codes (I had to look up MO — which is Macao for instance) by using the Country Code tool.

It was a pretty fun excercise seeing where else in the world someone was also into some of my obscure interests. Next time I’m feeling down I’ll come back and revisit the map to cheer me up (and maybe update it, but we’ll see).

create your own visited countries map
or vertaling Duits Nederlands

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Quick Country Code Lookup Tool

Posted on June 1st, 2007 by thetshirtnexus.
Categories: Marketing, General Business.

Made the boyfriend code this country code tool for me (he also wanted to try out Ruby on Rails). I’ve got the most popular country codes memorized but when something new comes up it’s fun to find out what new country will have a citizen sporting one of my shirts :)

There are already lists of country codes out there but this tool lets you just plug in the 2 digit code and hit return (or the “Go!” button on the page ) to find your answer.

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