Hiatus

I take this break from my hiatus to formally anounce my hiatus.  For those who don’t know, which I would imagine is the bulk of you, in addition to leaving PDA I’m in the process of moving.  I’m not sure how long the “process” takes, but I’m in my new house and have 95% of unpacking left.

I hope to resume posting within the next week or so, as there’s only a 2 week break between my two jobs.  In the meantime, I’ll be secretly hiding in the bushes as I read your continued posts and I’ll be adding to my Last.fm profile.  :-)

If you haven’t already, take this time to add my feed to your reader, so you will be alerted automagically when I return!

Search Questions

On occasion, I get a visitor to Marketer Synergy that comes through a search engine with a question. Yesterday I had someone ask,

“What time does Chick-fil-a stop serving breakfast?”

I probably can’t help that searcher any more, but I’m sure someone else wants to know so I’m providing the answer:

Chick-fil-a stops serving breakfast at 10:30.

In my experience the following is also true:
McDonald’s stops serving breakfast at 10:30.
Burger King stops serving breakfast at 10:30.
Subway stops serving breakfast at 10:30.
Dunkin’ Donuts never stops serving breakfast.

I’ve never tried White Castle (Krystal) or Carl’s Jr (Hardees) breakfast. If anyone knows when they stop serving breakfast, please feel free to comment.

The Snow Day That Almost Was

In general the tone I try to take on Marketer Synergy is casual, but I also try to stay on the path of professional. So with the casual theme in mind, let me tell you about The Snow Day That Almost Was.

Indianapolis was supposed to get hit with roughly 8-10 inches of snow this morning. It was going to continue through rush hour, so a lot of people thought today’s commute was going to be miserable and a lot of kids expected to not have school today. In fact, I was hoping to have a day off too. I live and work on opposite sides of the north end of Indianapolis and in order to get to work I have to drive across town. In normal rush hour, it’s not a fun experience, but in icy, slick, snowy conditions it’s even dangerous. Now I’m from Florida, didn’t see a snow flake until a few days before my 21st birthday, and therefore have no idea of how to drive in the snow. I’ve slid across the street a few times in those low priority areas where a plow and salt don’t go (like neighborhood roads). So you can imagine I’d rather just work remotely today (I can log in to my work PC from home).

Well, little Marketer Synergy rex decided today was the day when she wanted me to get up at 4:45 a.m. and take her out (my wife’s out of town on business, so no dice on that option). So I try to get her to go back to sleep for at least a half hour without luck. When I do get downstairs and let her out, I find about an inch or two of snow on top of a layer of ice. I knew two things 1) we weren’t getting a snow day and 2) driving across town over a layer of ice was going to be horrible. Thankfully one 1 of those two was accurate. The temperature on my drive was actually about 34, so instead of ice, it was mostly slush and water. So here I am, at work, and safe. The morning got started off nicely, someone brought in Krispy Kreme and we had an Anvil rep come in and discuss his line and changes to the ’08 catalog. Hopefully the drive home is just as safe. If so, I’ll be back on Monday!

Welcome!

Welcome to Marketer Synergy. Synergy is when the whole is greater than the sum of the parts. The idea behind the name is that by carrying on a dialogue with one another, we’ll all learn much more than if we just read the posts without any interaction.  I encourage you to jump right in! Feel free to contact me via email at this address, which hopefully will be invisible to even the smartest of spambots:

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