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Dual marketing strategy

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Toys makers are using a dual-approach strategy. Advertisements for toys on Kids’ tv channels are all about having fun. Kids are the audience and adults are not watching with their kids. Advertisements on the toy’s boxes are here to convince the payer (us parents) and they are all about increasing creativity, coordination, and other challenges for the kid and rarely about fun. Read more...

Levi's Jeans colours

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When you need to buy a Levi’s again the hard part is to find the same colour. So I searched online and found that on the multiple tags attached to the jeans is one with lots of numbers. The number you need is the one starting with PC9- On the picture 501 is the style and 1966 is the colour Read more...

Be smarter by complicating your life

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People tell me that they cannot be creative or think out of the box. I disagree, we as humans are great problem-solvers so are you (you are human right?) and that can be used to trigger creativity. If you cannot make a decision or need some creative juices, start adding virtual-problems. For example if I cannot choose while buying t-shirts, I would start adding problems like: easy iron fast dry funny goes with red Welcome to the world of creative people! Read more...

[soon] Is Windows cheaper on AWS or Azure?

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I am working on an article about Windows License pricing on AWS and doing some comparison with Azure. Stay tuned for the results in the next days on Strategic Blue blog I will update this post when the article is posted :) What are your guesses? Read more...

Mood is very correlated to sleep, I confirm

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This morning my son woke up at 5am, as a consequence, so did I. Result: I’m in a very bad mood, and anything the kids do, I start by being suspicious, then positive, instead of the other way around. So here we go, from test in the field, I can confirm that mood is impacted by amount of sleep. (stating the obvious) Read more...

Advice when you hire

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Diplomas only identify people having been good at school and had the opportunity of certain decisions in their youth. What is really needed is to find talents. Brain is more important than skills, skills are more important than education. A good brain is curious, a good brain learns and acquire skills and knowledge. And a great person, share the knowledge. Hire for the brain first, then maybe, if the salary is high, for the skills/education Read more...

2 eye gymnastic exercises

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Two exercises for your eyes that were shared as part of a good posture workshop at the office. The 20-20-20 is important to stop only focusing on the short distance like we do reading or looking at screen. 20 20 20 Every 20 minutes, look 20 meter away for 20 seconds round the clock Close your eyes, imagine a clock and point your eyes toward 12, then 1, then 2 … Read more...

Azure pricing stats

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Our Azure expert in Strategic Blue shared with me https://azureprice.net/ which is a great resource to get a better understanding on Azure pricing. Here I am sharing it with you too. Enjoy Read more...