About
RAKESH AGRAWAL
I am Senior Director of Product at Audible.
I have been designing and marketing Internet services since 1993. I have worked at Tellme, AOL Search, uReach Technologies, washingtonpost.com and startribune.com.
On Twitter
- RT @tomasvanammers: Ten words and phrases that are bringing down your CV https://t.co/JzJfnqTzUs 2 hours ago
- RT @ca_dmv_bot: Customer: NICKNAME OF DISCEASED FRIEND DMV: HAMMER CAN BE A PENIS OR A GUN. ALSO NO HUMMER ON ANI Verdict: DENIED https://… 2 hours ago
- Enjoying this wonderful bit while it lasts. And the overall prudishness of DMV, where everything is sexual, hitle… twitter.com/i/web/status/1… 2 hours ago
- RT @pt: First Twitter let spammers pay $8 to boost content, now it’s killing organic bots & moving to commercial bots only. It’s all just w… 2 hours ago
- Said in Ticketmaster testimony to congress: most of those fees go to the venues. Unsaid: Ticketmaster owns many of the venues. 5 hours ago
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Recent Posts
- A finance guide for millionaires and billionaires
- Rakesh’s travel secrets for your holiday travel
- Lobsterclass – free classes on product management
- Getting down to numbers: quantitative research
- Pricing the COVID-19 vaccine
- Favorite things, day 1: podcasts
- Rakesh’s travel secrets for your holiday travels
- Favorite things, day 2: credit cards
- Favorite things, day 3: Hawaii
- TiVo remains king of TV
Top Posts
- Watching American football in Dublin
- Social media and the new world of work -- my take
- Asking meaningless questions: CBS' faulty poll on TSA screening
- Weekly reader: PayPal vs. Square, AmEx, Yahoo! as patent troll and deals
- Are LivingSocial, Google Offers and the rest as bad as Groupon?
- 9 ways to improve the Facebook news feed
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Daily Archives: April 26, 2007
No more ugly T-shirts, please
This is a half Earth Day/half bad marketing rant. If you’re running a conference and want to give out T-shirts, make the designs something people will want to wear. I’m talking to you, Search Engine Strategies. Your T-shirt is so … Continue reading
Posted in advertising
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Making better ads
Every week, I get an email from United Airlines telling me about their e-fares for the coming weekend. Almost every week, I ignore this email because the information isn’t relevant to me. This week’s email includes fares from Burbank to … Continue reading
Posted in advertising, email, personalization, travel
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1309 spam messages in 90 minutes
I got an unpleasant surprise today – an avalanche of spam in 90 minutes. And technically, I was the one sending it. Or at least that’s what the mailservers thought. Our current email system was created in a time when … Continue reading
Video of Marge Simpson discovering Google
I added a video clip from The Simpsons to the Marge Simpson discovers Google post. It’s also below. Enjoy.
Posted in fun, google
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