Small Business Marketing: A Marketing Funnel Should Be Part of Your Recipe for Success
Your toughest job as a business owner and marketer is to get clients. It's also your most expensive job. So it stands to reason that you'd want to make the most of every single client you do get.The best way to do that, and one of the most cost-effective ways to market your business, is to use a marketing funnel.What's a marketing funnel?Well, you're probably fami

Real Estate Investing Strategy: Make Money With Wholesaling
Your exit strategy is an extremely important part of your real estate investing business. In fact, it is one of the most important parts. Sometimes investors get excited because they learn how to buy properties, they find them and they get the money lined up to purchase them. But after the purchase, the excitement dies, as they have no idea what to do with their newly owned properties.Imagine a classroom full of young students somewhere is America. The instructor enters the room and notices a number of students listening to personal MP3 players. the instructor, in a somewhat burly voice snaps; "Okay, you can turn those Ipods off now!". This little scene brings out a well-know phenomenon, that of denoting something, in this case, a personal media player, by a popular brand name - Ipod.

Apple's Ipod has become synonymous with any number of media, or MP3 players on the market. A worthy competitor to the Ipod; the Zune, has recently appeared on the scene. The Zune's fight to overtake the Ipod will be difficult because the Ipod currently dominates the personal media player market. I heard a stand-up comedian recently spout a blurb to the effect of; "A Zune? that's like an Ipod, only not as cool...".

Although the Ipod currently has the advantage, Microsoft will be supporting the Zune and a regular 'battle of the Titans' is shaping up. The Zune is a great-looking media player. I personally prefer the Zune's design, but a majority of fashion conscious people will purchase the Ipod based solely on how they imagine they will be perceived by other people, and no amount of technical specifications or feature comparisons will dissuade them from their choice.

Many people, however, value function over style, and the techie crowd will concern themselves with the technical specifications and performance features of products when making a purchase. When you compare the Zune to the Ipod with such criteria in mind, the Zune starts looking... Well, cool!

The Zune has a larger video display, .5 inches, or about 30 percent larger in fact. The Zune can communicate via WiFi over a limited area, and Zune owners can

personal media player, by a popular brand name - Ipod.

Apple's Ipod has become synonymous with any number of media, or MP3 players on the market. A worthy competitor to the Ipod; the Zune, has recently appeared on the scene. The Zune's fight to overtake the Ipod will be difficult because the Ipod currently dominates the personal media player market. I heard a stand-up comedian recently spout a blurb to the effect of; "A Zune? that's like an Ipod, only not as cool...".

Although the Ipod currently has the advantage, Microsoft will be supporting the Zune and a regular 'battle of the Titans' is shaping up. The Zune is a great-looking media player. I personally prefer the Zune's design, but a majority of fashion conscious people will purchase the Ipod based solely on how they imagine they will be perceived by other people, and no amount of technical specifications or feature comparisons will dissuade them from their choice.

Many people, however, value function over style, and the techie crowd will concern themselves with the technical specifications and performance features of products when making a purchase. When you compare the Zune to the Ipod with such criteria in mind, the Zune starts looking... Well, cool!

The Zune has a larger video display, .5 inches, or about 30 percent larger in fact. The Zune can communicate via WiFi over a limited area, and Zune owners can

l media player market. I heard a stand-up comedian recently spout a blurb to the effect of; "A Zune? that's like an Ipod, only not as cool...".

Although the Ipod currently has the advantage, Microsoft will be supporting the Zune and a regular 'battle of the Titans' is shaping up. The Zune is a great-looking media player. I personally prefer the Zune's design, but a majority of fashion conscious people will purchase the Ipod based solely on how they imagine they will be perceived by other people, and no amount of technical specifications or feature comparisons will dissuade them from their choice.

Many people, however, value function over style, and the techie crowd will concern themselves with the technical specifications and performance features of products when making a purchase. When you compare the Zune to the Ipod with such criteria in mind, the Zune starts looking... Well, cool!

The Zune has a larger video display, .5 inches, or about 30 percent larger in fact. The Zune can communicate via WiFi over a limited area, and Zune owners can

Zune's design, but a majority of fashion conscious people will purchase the Ipod based solely on how they imagine they will be perceived by other people, and no amount of technical specifications or feature comparisons will dissuade them from their choice.

Many people, however, value function over style, and the techie crowd will concern themselves with the technical specifications and performance features of products when making a purchase. When you compare the Zune to the Ipod with such criteria in mind, the Zune starts looking... Well, cool!

The Zune has a larger video display, .5 inches, or about 30 percent larger in fact. The Zune can communicate via WiFi over a limited area, and Zune owners can

hnical specifications and performance features of products when making a purchase. When you compare the Zune to the Ipod with such criteria in mind, the Zune starts looking... Well, cool!

The Zune has a larger video display, .5 inches, or about 30 percent larger in fact. The Zune can communicate via WiFi over a limited area, and Zune owners can share media wirelessly - what the Zune creators tout as a kind of 'social connectivity' feature of the player. The Zune models also have a built-in FM tuner. Do any of the Ipod models have WiFi or an FM tuner? No.

Ipod does give consumers more choice in terms of memory capacity however, with some Ipod models having up to 80GB,(Giga-bytes) of hard drive memory. The Zune offers only models with 30GB. It's great that Ipod gives people a choice in terms of memory, but really folks, 30GB of memory is certainly adequate. 30GB can store about 7,500 songs, and if each tune was only three minutes long, that's still over two-weeks of continuous 24 hour play without hearing the same song twice. .

I have not given a thorough comparison of features or performance of either the Ipod or the Zune. I hope, however, to have brought up some interesting points for discussion, not only about what will be the two top contenders in the personal media player market, but also about some fascinating behaviors we have as American consumers.

To learn more about the Zune and its features, including a great source for Zune media downloads, Zune news and blurbs vist my Squidoo Lense at: The Zune Personal Media Player