Dear Hearing Healthcare Professional,
In keeping with our commitment of being transparent with the hearing community, I would like to comment on recent activities within our marketplace. Many of you have undoubtedly received a number of emails and social media posts with respect to Unity Hearing Care. Most recently this group added a copy of Phonak's price list for the VA and Government Services contract. First I would like to say that Phonak is extremely proud of the products and service we provide to the VA and the veterans who have served our country. The VA has been a strong supporter of the Phonak brand for many years and we thank the clinicians within the VA for making Phonak the preferred supplier amongst VA clinicians. I believe it is important to point out that this is a...
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Dear Publishers,
Now that you have your ‘agency’ contracts (such as they are) in place and are moving on, in your own heads anyway, to Ebook 2.0, can we please start tightening things up a little with some standards?
Customers need to know that they can have a reliable, consistent experience in getting the content they want to pay you their hard-earned money for (and at over 1 billion downloads, the iTunes music store has proven people will pay for their content!) They don’t have that now, and it needs to happen fast. Here are the first two areas you should work on.
1) Pricing
Yes, yes, I know, you have the whole agency thing going on. But only for books not from Random House. Or from independent publishers. Or being sold by ebook vendors outside the USA (if you don’t believe...
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Dear Chancellor of the Exchequer,
I am writing to you in my capacity as CEO of TIGA, the trade association representing the UK video game development and digital publishing sector, to express the industry's concern about the slow progress being made towards the implementation of Games Tax Relief in the UK.
The decision to introduce a Games Tax Relief in the March 2012 Budget was a significant and highly welcome measure for the UK video game industry and for the wider economy. The UK video game industry has been competing on an un-level playing field. Game developers in many countries receive tax breaks for games production. No such tax breaks exist in the UK and so the industry has declined. Research from TIGA shows that between 2008 and 2011, employment in the sector fell by over...
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Dear Allison H. Abraham and Clay Corbus, Audit Committee Members:
When the Securities and Exchange Commission investigated Crazy Eddie, I found them to be tenacious in pursuing an investigation of my criminal activities. Class action plaintiff lawyers are an equally persistent bunch of people, too. Crazy Eddie’s Audit Committee members spent years during the government investigations and class action law suits directed at Crazy Eddie, defending their actions using extensive amounts of time, resources, and funds.
As you know, Securities and Exchange Commission is now investigating Overstock.com and its CEO, Patrick Byrne. A subpoena was sent to the company on May 9, 2006 and a few days later on May 17, 2006, to its CEO Patrick Byrne. The Securities and Exchange Commission is...
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Dear Yvonne Nelson,
Happy ?#?DumsorMustStop? vigil to You. I Hope You have developed a "thick skin" by now that You have moved Beyond Entertainment into civil activism. This one Is a rough terrain and sometimes You must be rough and tough in thèse matters.
Anyways, Yvonne, i don't mean to make this a long letter. I know You are busy today arranging for your 'photo shoot' tonight.
Lemme Say that You are very courageous. And i admire courageous people. You are more courageous than the braggard Sarkodie who 'pulled foot' and left You alone in this struggle at the last minute. Well, You have to understand the intrigues of this Game.
I Heard You on BBC. You blasted Our government officials as pure liars on the issue of dumsor. Some people have said that was an insult. Don't mind...
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Dear Accounting Professional:
Why won't you make it easy for me to do business with you?
I am a small businessman who needs some help growing my business. I work 12 hours a day and I need someone who can step in and help me get control of my life again and steer my business in the right direction.
Please understand that I really WANT to do business with you. I'm looking for the right phrases, emotions, or actions that subtly confirms for me my overwhelming desire to HIRE YOUR FIRM. I'm looking for reasons to say "YES" to you, not "no." I don't want to spend my time selecting a CPA. But you're not making it easy.
You sell accounting services everyday. I buy accounting services once in a blue moon. Help guide me through the process. Is my business too small for your firm? Do you have...
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Dear CRM Creators,
It’s me again, your humble yet critical follower. I know you’ve tried hard for many years to be the software that every business needs. I know you’ve really tried to make it work, but even after all these years, more than half of businesses are still breaking up with you.
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It’s not easy being attractive to everyone at the same time; just ask the guys who make generic construction project management software. But, you know what? It’s a lot easier to be attractive if you actually build yourself for what businesses really need.
What Do Businesses Really Need in CRM Software?
Well, for one thing, businesses don’t need a NeverEnding Story of features, even if they come with a bonus Luck Dragon. You’ve tried for many years to fight the ‘who has the...
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Dear Mr. Thatcher,
I have been a loyal user of your Always maxi pads for over 20 years, and I appreciate many of their features. Why, without the LeakGuard Core™ or Dri-Weave™ absorbency, I’d probably never go horseback riding or salsa dancing, and I’d certainly steer clear of running up and down the beach in tight, white shorts. But my favorite feature has to be your revolutionary Flexi-Wings. Kudos on being the only company smart enough to realize how crucial it is that maxi pads be aerodynamic. I can’t tell you how safe and secure I feel each month knowing there’s a little F-16 in my pants.
Have you ever had a menstrual period, Mr. Thatcher? Ever suffered from “the curse”? I’m guessing you haven’t. Well, my “time of the month” is starting right now. As I type, I can already feel...
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Dear Mr Davis - may I call you Terry? This is Australia, after all.
Okay, so I know what you are thinking: "just what I need, a letter from the CEO of Greenpeace". And it is true, just lately Greenpeace and Coca-Cola have not been getting along so well.
Things probably reached rock bottom when Coca-Cola called the cops on me a couple of weeks back. At least, I guess that is what happened, but maybe I am wrong and a dozen police officers simply happened to be strolling past your Sydney offices, entirely coincidentally at the time when we arrived…
In any event, you might be aware that, along with my mates Ian Kiernan from Clean Up Australia and Jeff Angel from the Total Environment Centre, I was coming over to your offices in North Sydney to pay a visit. We did let you know we were...
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Dear former Senator Dodd:
It was refreshing to hear your recent speech, in which you suggested that there really isn't a "Hollywood vs. Silicon Valley" fight, and that the two sides need to work together to help create the ecosystem where both can thrive. It�s hard not to agree with that assertion, absolutely. There isn't a fight between Silicon Valley and Hollywood, and there never has been. Every new technology that Hollywood has decried as being terrible has eventually turned out to be a massive boost to Hollywood's profits and ability to make, promote, and distribute its works. If that's a "fight," then it's an odd one, in which we in the tech community keep providing all of the weapons Hollywood needs to succeed... only to see you frequently aim them at your own foot before...
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